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My students are bright, curious and love science. They especially like hands-on activities and experiments, because they can apply what they've read and enjoy working as a team trying to figure out something they can't just yet understand. My school district is in a high poverty area where we cannot ask parents for donations, but we also have no funds available for science. Our science lessons are limited to books borrowed from the library, photocopied handouts by me, or outdated streaming videos which I download from the Internet. During my rock and light unit I borrow materials from other teachers or asked students to bring items they may have at home. I recently purchased flashlights from the dollar store for our light experiments, but I wasn't successful in making my own prisms. My students have a difficult time understanding reflection, refraction, and also the rock cycle; due to the fact that we lack expensive materials that would aid their visual and hands-on science experience.

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My students are bright, curious and love science. They especially like hands-on activities and experiments, because they can apply what they've read and enjoy working as a team trying to figure out something they can't just yet understand. My school district is in a high poverty area where we cannot ask parents for donations, but we also have no funds available for science. Our science lessons are limited to books borrowed from the library, photocopied handouts by me, or outdated streaming videos which I download from the Internet. During my rock and light unit I borrow materials from other teachers or asked students to bring items they may have at home. I recently purchased flashlights from the dollar store for our light experiments, but I wasn't successful in making my own prisms. My students have a difficult time understanding reflection, refraction, and also the rock cycle; due to the fact that we lack expensive materials that would aid their visual and hands-on science experience.

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