My students need a modern, solid, capable, full-frame digital camera to capture high quality images and video in the classroom and outside. They also need a battery and battery charger.
$2,321 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.
My students are extremely creative individuals. Trapped by the daily grind of required concepts and the stresses of exam preparations for both the IB and AP programs, it is a rare occasion for my environmental science students' creative side to shine! When they do- it's mesmerizing!
My students are natural born scientists and explorers.
They are also artists! They ask questions constantly, they want to learn, they crave new creative experiences, want to search for meaning, share their own experiences, and it is my job to facilitate and give them access to the knowledge, skills and canvas they need to get the answers they seek.
Over 90% of my students (and the student body) receive free lunch and 94%+ of them are Latino. Virtually all of them live in a dense, complex urban setting plagued by violence and most have never been outside our city, even their neighborhood.
Our school trips or experiences are usually the first and only exposures to nature, sitting on the grass, listening to birds and being outside. My students also thrive in practical settings with creative, real experiences. They're mostly visual/kinesthetic/auditory learners, and do best with hands-on, creative, artistic projects and labs, where scientific principles and creativity create learning.
My Project
My AP and IB students are required to learn and process a lot of content and skills throughout their course. Most of these projects and studies fall in two categories: empirical data collection via labs or experiments and secondly, artistic, content based projects that tap their creative, service-learning side. One such project they will be planning is One-Minute Wonder videos that students envision, plan and film on topics related to Environmental Science.
Finally, 3-5 minute fully-edited "EcoStories", videos that students create to bring attention to a local or global topic or community issue also central to the study of environmental science. This camera will allow them the power to create those images and videos. This camera will be their canvas, a starting point for the creation of art in science. My hope is that students will learn to dare and envision a world they want to see as adults and work for it as young activists, artists and scientists.
Thanks to you and your generosity, students will be given the technology to learn and forge their creative side we so desperately seek in all of our young, future environmental scientists.
Creating arresting and daring images or video that also possess an environmental science-focused message will be a powerful experience for students. It will also allow them to mesh the empirical, evidence-based science they learn in class with the artistic visual medium for one massive purpose: educate others.
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