My students need magnifying lenses to be able to make valid scientific claims through observations.
$192 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 typical 6th grade students with innovative imaginations waiting for someone to spark their curiosity. I greet them at the door with the following, "What are we going to discover today?" Most of my students have yet to develop their observation skills and I'm going to help them.
I teach in an inner-city community where resources are scarce.
I teach with what I can afford to buy to enrich my lessons. Student population is 99.9% Latino and 86% of them receive free meals. 76% of our students come from single-parent homes or are placed in foster homes. The surrounding community is derived of multiple families with extended families living together to help each other meet necessary day to day needs (place to live/eat/childcare). Above all the barriers involved, students still thrive because teachers believe that they can. I have a close relationship with all of my students and their parents and know their capabilities as well as their academic goals. Our class motto is: I am college bound. At my school, we strive to get them an education and in doing so, teachers put in a lot of their personal money and time to create a caring,learning environment.So regardless of their financial limitations I find a way to get them to see the world of exploration through my eyes.
My Project
I have requested a simple tool that our school does not provide. As a science teacher, observation skills is an essential concept needed to make scientific claims. I am requesting magnifying lenses for all of my students to use during science investigations. Because I don't have a class set, I have to get them on a loan basis through our district and return them within 15 days. I would like to have my own set of magnifying glasses so that I can start strong with cross-cutting NexGen practices and continue to support those standards throughout the school year without any interruptions. My students will use the magnifying lenses with all of our science units throughout the school year. This includes making observations with rocks and minerals, erosion properties, soil differences, and plate tectonic activities.
Any donations that we receive to fund this project will improve the quality of my instruction by showing students how observation skills are an essential part of the scientific world as well as how the "world works" around us.
Students will carry this skill through out their informal educational years and hopefully be a skill that will carry them through their formal education into a science-related field/career.
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