Chickens and Gardens- Teaching Sustainability and Urban Farming
My students need materials like bedding, a waterer, fencing, feeder, and chicken toys to create a free range habitat for their chickens, along with gardening supplies.
$550 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Students are natural born scientists! In my classroom, I teach students how to think and act like scientists when they examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. When students walk into my classroom they want to do science.
My students are ethnically diverse with the predominance of Latino students who have all failed in traditional school settings.
Many have experienced family trauma and/or the stresses of poverty. They are in great need for fun and hands-on resources; it's motivated students who have often been overlooked by traditional teaching methods. My school reaches out to these students with small class sizes, hands-on participatory learning, and flexibility in teaching. Last year my students built a chicken coop, hatched their chicks, and now are the proud parents to 5 chickens!
My Project
My students want their chickens to have a free-range habitat so they can scavenge for their food and have more area to roam around. Happy chickens make happy students. They plan on designing and engineering a free-range area for their chickens using the materials requested including bedding, a waterer, fencing, and a feeder. They also want to grow vegetables in a raised garden bed for so their chickens have healthy treats.
This project is teaching my students lifelong urban farming skills and enabling them to make the connection between farm to table.
Students will be taking learning into their own hands and reap the benefits of their work with chickens and habitat design.
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