Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Our students need access to amazing and fun activities for science. These activities using the tech light lab offer students an opportunity to complete a task in the dark. This alone is a fun experience for students who spend most of their day in a fluorescent filled classroom. Using the tech light lab kits, students are able to understand concepts of light such as reflection and refraction. Students have an opportunity to see light pass through and bend as it travels through different glass prisms. Similarly, they get the opportunity to see that what we see in life is due to various colors of light reflecting back to their eyes.
Take the technicality out of the description and what you get is an activity that students are highly engaged in. The results that students see when completing the activity help to change their understanding and perspective on the topic. Lastly, this is an activity that is memorable. Students remember doing this activity and they continue to talk about it. Isn't this exactly what we want in a classroom? We are not just memorizing a fact now to be forgotten later. Instead, we are creating an experience the student will never forget and will be able to draw from in the future.
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Our students need access to amazing and fun activities for science. These activities using the tech light lab offer students an opportunity to complete a task in the dark. This alone is a fun experience for students who spend most of their day in a fluorescent filled classroom. Using the tech light lab kits, students are able to understand concepts of light such as reflection and refraction. Students have an opportunity to see light pass through and bend as it travels through different glass prisms. Similarly, they get the opportunity to see that what we see in life is due to various colors of light reflecting back to their eyes.
Take the technicality out of the description and what you get is an activity that students are highly engaged in. The results that students see when completing the activity help to change their understanding and perspective on the topic. Lastly, this is an activity that is memorable. Students remember doing this activity and they continue to talk about it. Isn't this exactly what we want in a classroom? We are not just memorizing a fact now to be forgotten later. Instead, we are creating an experience the student will never forget and will be able to draw from in the future.