Please Help us see Butterflies at the Science Center!
My students need a chance to see science in action at the Pacific Science Center.
$1,579 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.
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Please help our little scientists ask more questions at the Pacific Science Center!
Our names are Jessica Scheele, Amber Swim, Kristina Nicchi, and Melissa Cook and we teach the second grade classrooms.
We're located in Washington State at a Title 1 school. Our 100 students are hardworking, kind, eager individuals. Many students are first and second generation citizens from Africa, South America, and Asia. Our differing cultures, backgrounds, economic statuses, and languages provide richness in the classroom, but we also face challenges. One challenge is that we are incredibly underfunded. At Hazel Valley, 80-85% of students qualify for free and reduced school lunch. There are so many experiences we wish we could have with our students if only we had the means.
My Project
We would love to take our students to the Pacific Science Center to see the tropical butterfly house. Toward the end of the year, we will be studying butterflies in the classroom. Adventuring with our students in the exhibit would be a wonderful culminating activity to our science unit. It would provide a glimpse into a part of the world very unlike Seattle and Burien — a warm, sunny place where colorful butterflies are active 365 days a year.
Upon sharing the possibility of this field trip with my students, they were overjoyed.
I asked them how it would change their lives for the better. Zainab said,"Seeing the butterflies would help me learn more about their disguises and how they use camouflage." Samatar said, "The Science Center would help me understand the life cycle better." Jose said it best with, “It’d be fun! I’d get to be curious and ask questions about science.” Please help foster that curiosity within our students.
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