Toyota Tapestry Grants Program Offers Funding for K-12 Science Teachers

Fifty grants of up to $10,000 and twenty to twenty-five mini-grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded to K-12 science teachers for innovative projects that enhance science education in a school and/or school district. A partnership between Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and the National Science Teachers Association, the Toyota Tapestry Grants for Science Teachers program offers grants to K-12 science teachers for innovative projects that enhance science education in a school and/or school district.

The project director should initiate the online proposal. This is the person who will be in charge of the project and implement it during the 2007-08 school year. The project director must be a middle or high school science teacher who teaches a minimum of two science classes per day or an elementary teacher who teaches some science in the classroom. All applicants must have a minimum of at least three years' science teaching experience in a K-12 school, not counting the current school year. Staff people (up to four allowed) may also work on the proposal.

Deadline: January 18, 2007