Earthquakes of Early California/The Science of Earthquakes
My students need 13 copies of "Earth's Shifting Surface", plus 12 other books, such as "The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906," to better understand the geological impact that earthquakes had during the mission system in early California.
$305 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.
Help! Our library has been closed almost 3 months. We lost our school librarian to budget cuts, and were assigned one that is on medical leave. My students have been unable to check out any resources during this time. This is making research hard for my student's projects.
I work at a Title 1 school in California.
Our school site is 97% free lunch and considered low income. I teach the GATE class (grade four) with many highly motivated learners. I also have the special ed. cluster for this year. I have a wonderful group of learners. They are kind, generous, and have the ability to master all grade four standards. Most of my students are second language learners and are making good strides thus far. It is unfortunate that they are working so very hard yet unable to gain access to sound reading material and supplies, especially during this time of the school year.
This community based school is historic in that it is close to 90 years old, and bears a striking degree of historic prestige to the city from which it is named. Living in this historic city helps my students take pride in their community and state from which they reside.
My Project
By using the scientific resources to supplement and scaffold instruction, students will better understand the geological influences affecting their state. They will acquire better understanding into the role that plate tectonics has played in the destruction and damage made to historical fixtures such as the missions of California. They will learn how these events changed the modern use of the missions and learn if their own mission were partially damaged or rebuilt from the ground up.
Our fourth grade mission project has four components; the first being research about an individual mission.
Then students write an essay on their mission along with graphs and charts. The individual mission models will be built during the spring, with a special open house and the oral presentations made sometime in May or June. By adding geology and math to this project, it will serve to meet the goals of my GATE students, as well as an enrichment of our Solid Earth unit in science. Thank you.
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