My students need a See it Grow Plant Lab,Plants & Life Cycles Instant Learning Center, Insects and Spiders Theme Box to bring 2nd grade Science standards to life.
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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
Science class should be hands-on. Students should be able to experience Science with all their senses. Science should be about discovering and experimenting. Science class should bring wonderment and excitement. I want to bring science to life for my students.
My students live in an impoverished neighborhood nestled between factories and railroad tracks.
They all live far below the line of poverty. They all qualify for federally funded lunches. They live within 15 miles of the beach yet 3/4 of the students have never touched the sandy shore. They are all hard working, sweet, and caring. They strive to please the teacher and really want to achieve. They aspire to go to college because even at their young age they know that education is the only way to prosper.
My Project
I am requesting a Life Cycle Instant Learning Center to help my students understand the life cycles of insects and plants. I will use the instant learning centers to help visualize the different stages in the development of plants and insects. My students need more than a text book to learn how living things change and grow. I want to be able to offer visuals and hands on realia that will help cement an understanding of what changes plants and insects go through. In addition I am also requesting a See It Grow Plant Lab. We are going to use the See It Grow Plant Lab to follow a seeds path through the germination process. I want my students to be able to see how a seed sheds it skin, then root begin to grow, and then a sprout comes out. With the use of the Grow Plant Lab my students will be able to follow this process and make observations and first hand discoveries. I am also requesting Plants Match-Ups reinforce the life cycle of a plant.
Please help me make science class hands-on.
I want to spark my students interests in how plants and insects grow and change. I want them to be real scientists and learn to make predictions and make their own discoveries. Please help my students have the right tools to fall in love with science.
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. Learn more
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