My students need a weather station, water cycle model, magnets, rock and fossil samples, to help us excel in Science. Our school has very old or no science materials.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My students see me as a very serious teacher,so when I showed up wearing a wild, spiky, white wig, and a lab coat to our family science night, they all came to check me out and to watch my disappearing foam peanuts. We have had very little science materials to work with, and they were excited.
My students attend a Title I school and come from a low socio-economic background.
They have had very few experiences when they begin school and we spend a lot of time building background in every subject. It's difficult to describe a baseball diamond if a child has never attended a baseball game. Imagine trying to describe a concept such as matter and having to explain what a gas is. Having concrete items in science makes it easier to explain the experiments when the students have something to actually hold in their hands.
My Project
My students will learn how to use simple weather instruments and learn how weather affects us in our daily lives. They learn how we can predict the weather to protect our lives and farmers can use it to protect their crops and livestock. Students will learn that magnets are used in TVs, computers, Cd's, elevators, credit cards, and numerous other inventions that we live with daily, besides just the fun of seeing what it will and won't pick up. Learning about the water cycle from a hands on experience is so much more interesting than just reading about it in your science book. Students also retain more of the information they learn from hands on experiences that from simply reading about it.
Some of my students have never been to a movie theater to see a movie.
Imagine trying to teach these children about elevators, escalators, roller coasters, a cattle farm, and so many other things that we take for granted. Having these items in my classroom will allow my students to see things they have never seen before and make it easier to explain to them. Hopefully it will give them a curiosity about the world that will make them want to get out and explore it.
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