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Beyond Pencils & Crayons

Beyond Pencils and Beyond Crayons Grants are designed to inspire K-12 teachers throughout Marathon County to initiate innovative and creative projects and programs to enhance existing curriculum. Through a competitive review process, our selection committees look for proposals that fill a specific need, are cost-effective, provide educational value, and demonstrate a sense of community.

The Community Foundation is proud to award the following Beyond Pencils and Beyond Crayons Grants totaling $25,000 from the Wausau•Marathon County Fund, for projects and programs to be completed during the 2008-09 school year.

D.C. EVEREST MIDDLE SCHOOL

Caring and Giving through Research and Design
Students will participate in a service-learning project, and through research and design will produce a product that will be helpful to others

Reader to Reader
Students will produce video book talks to help other students with their independent reading choices

Replanting History
Students will be restoring a native prairie habitat in front of the school

D.C. Everest Junior High School / "Getting Wet, Yet Staying Dry" supplies for scientific discovery and data collection on local rivers

D.C. EVEREST SCHOOL FOREST

Up Close with Nature: Connecting Children through Interactive Wildlife Exhibits
Visitors to the school forest will be able to view mounted animals and learn about them and their natural habitats

D.C. EVEREST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Oh Deer! An Ecological Restoration and Research Investigationling Exhibit
High school students will be involved in a forest management project where they will construct a 1/4 acre deer exclosure in an effort to study and restore a native plant community in the northern mixed forest

EDGAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Veggie Tales and Fruity Poems
Through a multi-faceted project, students will explore good nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices

EDGAR MIDDLE SCHOOL

A Walk in Their Shoes
The study of African culture, arts, literature, government, history, and georgraphy will culminate with a presentation by author Ishmail Beah who will reflect on his survival as a former boy soldier

Science teacher with kids

Rib Mountain Elementary School / Wormology and Growing in Science projects

FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

Making Math Count
Creation of a "math activity library" which will include games and manipulatives to help children master various math concepts

Observers to Participants
Students will create and present hands-on experiemtns to be presented at a community-wide science fair

Plant Study Enrichment

Students will be invovled in a hands-on experience that will enhance their study of plants

HORACE MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Eagle Pride Printing
Cognitively Disabled students will produce printed towels that students will take with them on their travels and the locations will be mapped by 7th grade students

Renaissance Sword Dance and Accompaniment
The study of the Renaissance period will be enhanced as students learn and perform a sword dance refelective of that era

Xylophones, Metallophones, and Glockenspiels, Oh, My!

Enhancement of the music program through the use of musical instruments

MARATHON MIDDLE SCHOOL

Prairie Garden Park
Students will collaborate on the development of a multi-purpose prairie garden park located on the school's grounds

MOUNTAIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Westward Journey Journals
All third grade stuents will create a hard cover book that contains a personal narrative and hand drawn images of an imagined voyage across the US to the unsettled westl 

NEWMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Seeing Nature through the Lens of Tech "Knowledgy"
Students will use more technology and quantiative mathods for understanding the worl around them

NEWMAN CATHOLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL

Dramatically Enhancing Reading Comprehension
Teachers will utilize the techniques of Tableau and Human Slide Show to increase student's reading comprehens

WAUSAU WEST HIGH SCHOOL

Learning Physics with Toys
Students learn basic physics concepts through the study of ordinary toys