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Education>Legacy Education Foundation>Steamboat Springs School District>Soda Creek Elementary School
Soda Creek Elementary School Funded Projects
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Creating a Sense of Place through Literature and Art
The library and art programs at Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools collaborated to bring author-illustrator Harriet Peck Taylor to the schools to work with students on Creativity, Folklore, and the Art of Batik Illustration.
Routt County History Reading Books
Three different book sets help third-grade students In Steamboat Springs integrate Routt County History and Ranch Days into the reading curriculum. The book sets purchased are Life on the Ranch, Bandannas, Chaps, and Ten-Gallon Hats, and The Railroad.
Yampa River Ecology Project
High school and primary students pair up as study buddies to each other for the academic year to study the ecology of the Yampa River Valley and implement a stewardship project to help our local natural environment.
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Routt County ABCs
This is a multi-school book project for elementary students in Hayden, South Routt and Steamboat Springs. Students explore each local region to better appreciate its geography, wildlife, people and history and then share their findings with each other through books and murals. Author Sneed Collard III will present at each school and will guide students through a study of the genre of non-fiction using his ABC book about Montana as a model.
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Yampa River Ecology Project
The Yampa River Ecology Project serves 200-400 students from SoRoCo High School and Middle School, Steamboat Springs High School and Middle School plus first and second grade students from Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools in Steamboat Springs. Students learn about local natural areas including fish, wildlife, and vegetation. Routt County’s natural ecosystem will benefit from the stewardship projects.
Climbin-The Boat: Elementary Traverse Rock Climbing Wall and Traversing the Steep, A Rock Climbing Wall
Soda Creek Elementary and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools requested help to purchase rock climbing walls for the Physical Education programs.
Routt County Birdhouses
This project is part of the Steamboat Springs School District Routt County History curriculum, specifically the Ranch Days unit. Students study the relationship between the environment and agriculture. They specifically study northwest Colorado birds and how bird life is an indicator of environmental health. Students build birdhouses. The birdhouses are given to ranchers as thank-you gifts. The birdhouses are hung in appropriate locations. The birdhouses are a visible representation of the students’ studies.
Food Guide Pyramid Educational Reinforcement Program
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students will be provided with on-going, age-appropriate, and fun nutrition messages/education to supplement and reinforce the nutrition curriculum currently in place. Students will be given nutrition information items/incentives on a regular basis.
Cultural Celebrations and Connections
The Steamboat Springs Elementary School Spanish Program mini-grant to supports year-long cultural education through two avenues. The Cultural Celebrations and Connections program introduces cultural diversity by exploring important Latin American holidays and festivals and implementing a pen pal program with a school in Mexico.
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Nutrition Services/Food Services Food Guide Pyramid Educational Reinforcement Program
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students in Routt County school districts (Steamboat Springs, Hayden, South Routt) will be provided with ongoing, age appropriate, and fun nutrition messages/education to supplement and reinforce the nutrition curriculum currently in place. Students will be given nutrition information items/incentives such as activity worksheets, lunch bags, erasers, puzzles, bookmarks, etc. on a regular basis.
Elementary Science Integration
A facilitator will utilize the Water Trailer from the Routt County Extension Service and the Water Conservation District to demonstrate a watershed in action. Fifth grade classes at Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools will also analyze the health of the Yampa River watershed through the study of temperature, pH, and presence of macroinvertebrates in the water. Second grade classes will utilize sound probes to measure the decibel, amplitude, and range of various sounds.
Food Services Physical Education Curriculum Support Project
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students in the three Routt County school districts will be provided with pedometers in the lunchroom to support the physical education curriculum and to reinforce the important link between healthy eating and exercise in meeting the goal of overall health and wellness for our students.
Kindergarten Place-Based Science
Kindergarten children with work with Yampatika to study living and non-living things and cultural diversity.
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Yampa River Ecology Project
First and fifth grade students are paired as study buddies for multidisciplinary classroom and field-based studies of the Yampa River ecosystem.
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Reeling in the Future of Our Elementary Schools
Second grade students from Soda Creek Elementary School partner with second grade students at Strawberry Park Elementary School to record changes in the two schools as they transition through construction and into new school buildings. Students in each school create a vodcast to with each other and a virtual tour of the new buildings to post on-line for the community. Funds are for a portable learning station including a video camera and microphone for students to use in their work.
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This page last updated on 4/12/2008.
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