Learning, in my opinion, is best completed by experiencing influential, relevant, and inquiry based challenges. Learning should be hands-on as much as possible in my classroom. I would personally like the opportunity to learn through hands-on experiences.
My students in Biology and IB Biology are 9, 10 and 11th graders who are generally curious and enjoy inquiry based learning.
Asking and answering questions is very popular with my students and the approach we take in my science classes. They are curious about the world around them and enjoy learning of relevant issues.
My Project
This is my fifth year of teaching biology at my high school. Since I was a child, I have had a sincere interest and love for marine wildlife and now have a number of fish tanks to enjoy and learn from. As a biology teacher I find marine life to encompass and demonstrate everything about biology and provide many excellent teaching opportunities.
I would like to be able to create and grow a personal marine ecosystem in order to learn the steps, conditions, and details of creating and maintaining a marine environment. Doing so requires very specific equipment, specifically lights for coral to grow. I will use this equipment to be able to recreate a marine ecosystem to learn and observe the delicacies of maintaining such a ecosystem.
I am requesting materials to allow me create and grow a coral reef.
Further, I want to be able to witness and observe what strategies will best allow coral to grow in enclosed ecosystem in hopes of applying what I learn to the real world. What I learn I believe will be directly transferable to the classroom in building engaging lessons for my students concerning ecological issues of climate and environmental change that many marine habitats are facing today.
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