Cool Tools: 2,4,6,8, Who Do We Appreciate?

Hi everyone,

Nancy here.

If you started doing the cheer up in the caption but had a little trouble filling in the blank, allow me to assist: TEACHERS!

Today, May 9th brings to an end national Teacher Appreciation Week, a week designated so that students and their caregivers and families and Parent Teacher Organizations take time out to recognize and celebrate their teachers for all their hard work.

So, for you teachers, I wanted to share a hot tip on an event that our friends at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University are doing beginning on Sunday, May 17th from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.

This May and June the Nasher Museum of Art will be participating in a special project, the FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT, that is encouraged for you to do with your students. It is a collaborative nationwide project intended to support the rebuilding of New Orleans by making the environmental conditions safer for its residents. The project's idea was created by artist Mel Chin, and he needs 3 million people to create FUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS. A FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL is a student-designed and created $100 bill.

The project is easy to implement in your classroom and is linked to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Competency Goals in Science: Science K-12 Strand:Science in Personal and Social Perspectives.

You can even find a lesson plan to help guide you on the project's website.

If you make FUNDREDS with your students, you can contact Julie Thomson (julie.thomson@duke.edu, 684-8816) at the Nasher Museum so that they can be included in an exhibition at Golden Belt.

Looking for more ways to link art and science in the classroom? We can help you get started. Just contact us in the Resource Center via email or by phone at 919-220-5429x356.

Stay Tuned, Stay Curious , Happy Mother's Day and Congrats to all our local college graduates!

-Nancy