DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) Theresa Torian is teaching virtually for Little River Elementary in Durham during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She applied for and received a Bright Ideas education grant from North Carolina Electric Cooperatives, which awards more than 600 grants for projects every year.
With the grant money, Torian bought access to an online science curriculum for students at the school. A lot of times when we want to start a lesson out or we want to expose them to something that normally we would crowd around a table at school and do some sort of experiment like chemical changes, physical changes, they have great videos that demonstrate that, Torian said. They can get up close and see how things work. It answers a lot of the whys in science.