My students need 60 mammalian eyes to learn about the anatomy and physiology of the eye and compare the eyes to the human eye.
$216 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.
When you think of a science classroom, you think of microscopes and test tubes with bubbling liquids. My students have not had this experience in their past high school courses. My students have not conducted labs or watched "science" before their eyes.
My students live in urban Louisiana in a diverse area.
My classroom is a science classroom for seniors taking AP Biology. These are students who have worked hard to make their way to the top of the class. These are students who are striving to reach college.
Through taking AP Biology, my students will be ready to compete in a college level science course and do well. My students attend a public high school that is crowded and underfunded. My students have not completed lab-based science classes. My students desire improved education because they realize that education is their ticket out of their current low income situation.
My Project
With the mammalian eye dissection kits, my students will be able to complete a dissection lab. They will not only review the anatomy and physiology of the eye, they will be able to dissect a physical eye and label the proper structures. Besides anatomy, students will learn proper dissection skills such as handling the scalpel and T-pins. This lab will prepare my students to future, more complex dissections. The eye lab will show my students the essential theme in Biology which is, " Structure determines function".
This project is important because as Senior in high school, these students are preparing to enroll in college and enter the adult world.
Dissections will solidify critical thinking skills and also build upon basic knowledge of the human body so students will know how their own body functions in comparison to fellow mammals.
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