Phyllis Shannon & Jaynee Burchard
Des Moines Elementary, Des Moines, NM
When I First Came to this Land—$2,500
Students will learn local history and culture through a variety of lessons and activities designed for investigation of the different periods of history of the community.

Christopher Hall
Woods Cross High School, Woods Cross, UT
Putting the Landscape into the Netscape—$1,100
Students in an Advanced Placement Human Geography class will conduct field studies in their own town, primarily landscape studies, and illustrate their work with maps, graphs, and digital photographs. Their results will be posted on the class' website to be accessed by human geography students living in other landscapes. Students will use "Corel Presentations" to make presentations to local civic, business, and educational groups to increase geography awareness and geographic literacy.

Andrew Hopkins
Tyrone Elementary, Harper Woods, MI
Great Lakes Geography—$1,250
Students of Tyrone Elementary School in Harper Woods, Michigan, lack hands-on field experience in geography. A proposed solution to this problem is to take students on a shipboard field experience on the St. Clair River in St. Clair, Michigan. The shipboard cruise incorporates water, life, and the land of Michigan into its program.

Karen Adams
Madras Elementary, Madras, OR
El Mundo!: Bi-lingual Activities for Family Geography—$900
This project will bring the Family Geography Challenge to a bilingual population of families and students in Central Oregon for the purpose of promoting geography awareness, enhancing parental involvement in education, and encouraging life-long learners.

Steve Niederhauser
Thetford Academy, Thetford, VT
Local Geography Projects—$1,250
This project is a way for Vermont students to demonstrate learned geographic knowledge, skills, and concepts; a vehicle for valuable community service learning; and a means to help organize and unify Vermont upper-level geography teachers.

Judith Painter
Tates Creek High School, Lexington, KY
Patterns of Growth in Lexington, KY—$1,240
The students involved in this project will study their home region and then relate it to other world regions and government systems. The project will begin to prepare students for the future and their place in it by studying past and present patterns of growth in Lexington. The students will then determine the future patterns of growth and the influences on those patterns.