To develop, present, and publicize a curriculum that addresses not only In Search of Giant Squid but wider concepts in marine biology, including evolution. These interactive science activities will include:a day-long special event for families to mark the opening of the exhibit; a K-12 teacher’s workshop; exhibit tour programs for elementary and secondary school classes; and weekend drop-in activities for visitors.

Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration, Photographs by Barbara Beirne
$5,000

To support the creation of public programming to accompany Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration. The programs will include: an interactive workshop with a Salinas middle school teacher of English as a Second Language and author of La Línea; and the creation and presentation of monologues, accompanied by visual images, educating audiences about the circumstances that compel teenagers to migrate either alone or with their families.

Jim Henson's Fantastic World
$4,035

To engage, educate, and entertain children and families, and to enhance their experience of Jim Henson’s Fantastic World with a “Puppetry Experience.” In tandem with the resource materials provided by SITES, the activity will be an educator-guided, participatory experience with an actor(s) on weekends during the exhibition.

Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
$4,785

To enhance the Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers through a schedule of programs that educate and entertain. The programs include: a lecture by exhibit spokesperson and Washington State resident, Bill Russell; a lecture by local writer and historian Jim Price; a family oriented, sports themed MACFest, including local sports figures talking with children and signing autographs, sports equipment that children can try out, and special discounts into the exhibition gallery; and a workshop for regional educators.

Ritz Theatre & La Villa Museum

381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story

To implement two teacher in-service workshops for 100 Jacksonville area social studies teachers, Teaching the Civil Rights Movement through Visual Images, featuring Elsa Barkley Brown, Ph. D., and They Should Have Seen It Coming: Studying and Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott, presented by Georgette Norman.

Oregon Historical Society

Portland , OR

Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
$3,425

To offer docent guided tours of Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers, hands-on activities and a demonstration of wheelchair sports to the general public and families belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Additionally, the Society will offer two day camp programs with activities relating to themes raised in the exhibition.

Bennington Museum

Bennington , VT

Covered Bridges: Spanning America’s Landscape
$2,500

To offer a hands-on workshop for members of Bennington’s disabled community. Participants will be taken on tours of Covered Bridges: Spanning America’s Landscape, at the Bennington Museum, the Covered Bridge Museum at the Bennington Center for the Arts, and one or more of Bennington’s own covered bridges. Following the tour, participants will be guided in creating a personal response to what they have experienced using a range provided materials.

Feast Your Eyes: The Unexpected Beauty of Vegetable Gardens
$4,892

To host a serious of educational programs in conjunction with Feast Your Eyes: The Unexpected Beauty of Vegetable Gardens. The programs will include: guided tours; cooking and gardening demonstrations; and workshops for students to plant and take home their own vegetables