Comment Re:Funding (Score 1) 434
I realize I'm talking to a school teacher here. School teachers in high schools and elementary schools don't write grant proposals, because that's university stuff.
There are actually quite a number of opportunities to write for grants at the high school level. They are typically for equipment, supplies, or activities only -- such as buying new sensor units, buying binoculars and telescopes to start up an astronomy course, taking a class on a trip to a national lab-- but they are out there.
I received a grant that supported about 80% of the model rocketry supplies my physics class needed this year. The poor state of the economy is a great motivator to locate alternative sources of funding...