SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards
The 2010 SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards recognize the outstanding efforts of students and teachers across the country who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment. Since this is an awards -- not grant -- program, entrants must demonstrate significant accomplishments that have occurred prior to the submission deadline.
Maximum Award: $10,000.
Eligibility: schools (grades K-12) and community groups.
Deadline: November 20, 2009.
http://www.swbg-animals.org/conservation-matters/eea/about.htm

Vernier/ NSTA: Tech Award
Vernier Software & Technology/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Tech Award recognizes the innovative use of data collection technology using a computer, graphing calculator, or handheld in the science classroom.
Maximum Award: $3,000 -- $1,000 in cash for the teacher, $1,000 in Vernier Products, and up to $1,000 toward expenses to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education, March 18-21, 2010.
Eligibility: current teachers of science in grades K-College.
Deadline: November 30, 2009.
http://www.vernier.com/grants/nsta.html

AIAA: Science and Math Programs Grants
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Science and Math Programs Grants assist educators in presenting mathematics, science, and technology principles to students (K-12) in an exciting, hands-on manner to develop our future aeronautics and aerospace engineers, scientists, pilots, and space explorers.
Maximum Award: $1,000.
Eligibility: AIAA Educator Associate K-12 teachers.
Deadline: November 30, 2009.
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=216

Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) grant program was established to encourage young people in the study of science and radio astronomy and to help students fund their projects. Students have a variety of projects that could be studied from Stanford University’s program of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID); NASA’s Radio Jove studying Jupiter storms and solar storms; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center INSPIRE program studying natural and manmade radio waves; meteor detection and the Itty Bitty Telescope (IBT) from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and SARA.
Maximum award: $200
Eligibility: Students in grades 5 through college
Deadline: N/A
www.radio-astronomy.org

Under the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) the U.S. Department of State and IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) announce a competition for middle and high school teachers from the United States to participate in a two-week professional exchange program.
Award: The program is fully funded and provides: visa support, round-trip domestic airfare, lodging and meals to attend the TEA U.S. Conference, round-trip airfare from the U.S. to the assigned country, emergency medical evacuation plan, and lodging and a daily stipend in the host country.
Eligibility: Secondary-level (middle or high school) teaching professionals with five or more years of classroom experience;teachers who spend 75% of their work week in a direct classroom instruction role in one of the following disciplines: English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature, social studies, math, or science; U.S. citizens; and teachers able to travel in spring or summer 2011 to one of the aforementioned countries.
Deadline: October 30, 2009 for travel in spring or summer of 2011. Selection will be made before January, 2010 and grantees will be expected to meet with their TEA International counterparts at a conference in the US in February or September, 2010.
http://www.irex.org/programs/tea/tea_us.asp

Project Learning Tree (PLT) GreenWorks! grants engage PLT educators and their students with their community via "learning-by-doing" environmental projects that involve student leadership, service-learning, and community participation.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: Educators who have received PLT training. Project must be youth-planned and -executed, and integrate student learning and community service. It also must include at least one community partner, such as a local organization or business, and must acquire 50 percent matching funds.
Deadline: October 31, 2009.
http://www.plt.org/cms/pages/21_22_21.html

The Mickelson ExxonMobil 2010 Teachers Academy offers a five-day program designed to provide third- through fifth-grade teachers with knowledge and skills to motivate students to pursue careers in science and math.
Maximum award: all-expenses-paid, five-day program in July 2010 in Jersey City, NJ.
Eligibility: third- through fifth-grade teachers in the United States.
Deadline: October 31, 2009.
http://www.sendmyteacher.com/send_your_teacher.php

The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other non-profit educational organizations for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. Funds will be provided only for the purchase of native plants and seed.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: schools, nature centers, and other non-profit and not-for-profit places of learning, including houses of worship with a site available for this stewardship project.
Deadline: November 15, 2009.
http://www.for-wild.org/seedmony.htm

Vernier Software & Technology/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Tech Award recognizes the innovative use of data collection technology using a computer, graphing calculator, or handheld in the science classroom.
Maximum award: $3,000 -- $1,000 in cash for the teacher, $1,000 in Vernier Products, and up to $1,000 toward expenses to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education, March 18-21, 2010.
Eligibility: current teachers of science in grades K-College.
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2009.
http://www.vernier.com/grants/nsta.html

AAPT: Barbara Lotze Scholarships for Future Teachers
The American Association of Physics Teachers Executive Board offers scholarships for future high school physics teachers.
Maximum Award: $2,000, granted to an individual for up to four years.
Eligibility: U.S. citizen undergraduates attending U.S. schools who are enrolled, or planning to enroll, in physics teacher preparation curricula; U.S. citizen high school seniors entering such programs.
Deadline: December 1, 2009.
http://www.aapt.org/programs/grants/lotze.cfm

AAPT: High School Physics Teacher Grant
The American Association of Physics Teachers High School Physics Teacher Grant will reward a proposal designed to result in better teaching practice, student understanding and interest, and increased class enrollment. The proposal may use a new teaching method or an adaptation of an existing idea.
Maximum Award: $500.
Eligibility: members of AAPT.
Deadline: December 1, 2009.
http://www.aapt.org/programs/grants/hsgrant.cfm

Ciba Specialty Chemicals Exemplary Middle Level and High School Science Teaching Awards recognize teachers who have demonstrated exemplary science teaching in one or more of the following areas: creativity using science teaching materials; design and use of innovative teaching plans and ideas; and development and implementation of department, school, or school-community programs that improve science instruction and/or stimulate interest in science and the learning of science.
Maximum award: $4,000, a one-year membership in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and up to $1,000 to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education, March 18-21, 2010 in Philadelphia.
Eligibility: full-time classroom teachers.
Deadline: November 30, 2009.
http://www.nsta.org/pdfs/awards/CibaTeaching.pdf

NSTA/Ciba Specialty Chemicals: Exemplary Middle Level and High School Science Teaching Awards
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Exemplary Middle Level and High School Science Teaching Awards recognize teachers who have demonstrated exemplary science teaching in one or more of the following areas: creativity using science teaching materials; design and use of innovative teaching plans and ideas; and development and implementation of department, school, or school-community programs that improve science instruction and/or stimulate interest in science and the learning of science.
Maximum Award: $4,000, a one-year membership in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and up to $1,000 to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education, March 18-21, 2010 in Philadelphia.
Eligibility: full-time classroom teachers.
Deadline: November 30, 2009.
http://www.nsta.org/pdfs/awards/CibaTeaching.pdf

NSTA: Distinguished Fellow Award
The National Science Teachers Association Distinguished Fellow Award recognizes extraordinary contributions to science education through personal commitment to science teaching or science, and through significant contributions to the profession that reflect dedication to NSTA as well the entire educational community.
Maximum Award: Recognition.
Eligibility: NSTA members of at least 10 years.
Deadline: November 30, 2009.
http://www.nsta.org/pdfs/awards/Fellow.pdf

NSTA: Distinguished Service to Science Education Award
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Distinguished Service to Science Education Award recognizes extraordinary contributions to science education through personal commitment to science teaching or science and through significant contributions to the profession that reflect dedication to NSTA as well as to the entire educational community.
Maximum Award: three nights' hotel accommodations and up to $500 to attend the 2009 NSTA National Conference on Science Education, Mar. 18-21, 2010, in Philadelphia.
Eligibility: NSTA members.
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2009.
http://www.nsta.org/pdfs/awards/DistinguishedService.pdf