Waterman Teacher Wins
Grand Prize
Jennifer Wright of Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg has
won the top prize in economic education awards competition sponsored
by the Harrisonburg Rotary Club and the Harrisonburg-Rockingham
Chamber of Commerce.
The winning project, “Wright’s Bites Café,” is a student-operated
food service business that helps students understand and apply
economic concepts.
Other prizes awarded in the local competition were:
- First prize in the primary
division for grades K-2, to a team of four educators from Stone
Spring Elementary School: Marta Armstrong, Terri Gehman, Rebecca
Long and Melissa Perritt. The Stone Spring project, “Baking for
Books,” taught economic principles while leading the students
through a baking project to buy books for a Mississippi school hit
by Hurricane Katrina.
- Second prize in the primary
division, won by Tiffany Layman and Bonnie Berry at Ottobine
Elementary School. Their “Growing Money” project united their two
kindergarten classes in activities that included an in-school
business growing hyacinth plants and lessons on spending and
saving.
- Third prize in the primary
division, to Heather Gigliotti of McGaheysville Elementary School,
for “Cumulative Carnival,” a one-day culmination of a year-long
exploration of basic economic concepts by first graders.
- First-place in the middle school
division, for “W-3: The Who, When and Why of Taxation,” developed
by Cathy Glick at Wilbur S. Pence Middle School. Glick’s project
used a simulation about “Uncle Sam’s Cash Register” to teach
middle school students about taxation and citizenship.
More information on the awards
program is available at
http://cob.jmu.edu/econed/awards . |
