My students need to experience real-life projects that incorporate literacy, science and mathematical skills. They need 30 white boards, a Root-vue Farm and a Life Cycle and Growth of Flowering Plants Kit.
$278 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 come from a highly impoverished neighborhood and have very few enrichment opportunities afforded outside of the school day. Our school of 900 students has one science teacher, who can only begin to spark the students' interest in questioning and exploring the mysteries of our world.
My classroom is not what you might expect from the middle of Kansas.
We are culturally and racially diverse - four different home languages just in our room! These boys and girls are curious but have few opportunities to leave the school on field trips to explore and question; the teachers usually bring the experiences in to them. This is a highly impoverished, urban school in a neighborhood with a high school graduation rate below 40%. In order to make these students more successful so they desire to stay in school, we have to engage them actively in their studies. They want to learn. Students in Kansas do desire a high quality, inquiry based scientific experience that can be transferred over into other areas of the curriculum.
My Project
This resource request is a classroom set (30) dry erase boards with permanent graphing grids that students can record data and chart results to display. Work can be preserved by photographing students and their charts. There are 6 sets of 4 colored Crayola dry-erase markers to make the work visually appealing. There is a Root-view kit to grow root plants that is transparent so students can observe, measure and chart plant and root growth. There is a flowering plant kit that includes all materials to grow flowering plants and includes stories about people who have used plants and other resources to provide for their needs in order to tie in reading skills as well as mathematics and science. I hope to help students realize how to use their knowledge about plant growth to assist their families use community and backyard gardens to improve their nutrition and provide food for their families.
Without the help of donors there is no way I can provide this kind of opportunity for my students.
This project may seem small to some, but the price tag is over half of my annual classroom budget that also must cover many school supplies that most of my students cannot provide for their own education. These students are 18 months from middle school and do not understand the life cycle of a plant. I need your help to improve their chances of success beyond elementary school.
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