Kalley Hurt, a Carnegie High School science teacher, receives a $150 check from representative Mike Hixson

Kalley Hurt, a Carnegie High School science teacher, receives a $150 check from representative Mike Hixson

Kalley Hurt, a Carnegie High School science teacher, receives a $150 check from representative Mike Hixson, external affairs manager in Lawton. The “Teacher Vision” grants from American Electric Power, parent company of PSO, are designed to make creative projects possible for pre-K through grade 12 teachers who live or work in PSO services areas. Mrs. Hurt said her project will fund “Prey vs. Predator: Win, Lose or Draw? Super Value Kit,” an activity that teaches interdependent relationships in ecosystems. It also will fund “Energy Flow in an Ecosystem,” an activity that will help students represent the flow of energy in their assigned habitat as well as teach trophic levels and how some organisms (such as omnivores) can be in two trophic levels at the same time. “Both of these activities will assist learning the Oklahoma State Standards for High School Biology,” she said.