A Learning Experience About Animals at the Mystic Aquarium
Help me give my students a learning experience to Mystic Aquarium to see animals.
$1,444 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.
I am a Special Education teacher in an urban district who works with students with a wide variety of mental, emotional, physical, and learning disabilities in a self-contained classroom.
Many of these students will have additional disabilities such as autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs), challenging and/or self-injurious behavior, emotional disturbance, epilepsy, hearing impairment, physical impairment, severe impairment in communication skills and visual impairment.
The students in my room have limited communication skills and will therefore not have control of the multiple means by which other students communicate such as speech, body language, facial expressions and print.
My Project
I would love to give my students the opportunity to visit Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut on May 20, 2020. We need help with transportation costs. The transportation to and from the museum is often a pleasant open-social time for the kids. I find it important for students to experience new environments that are not part of a classroom setting. My students are visual learners. A field trip allows them to see, touch, feel, and listen to what they’re learning about, which helps them make connections between instruction and the real world.
I find it important for students to experience new environments that are not part of a classroom setting.
My students are visual learners and a field trip allows them to see, touch, feel, and listen to what they’re learning about, which helps them make connections between classroom instruction and real world experiences.
I’m going to prepare my students by developing their visual literacy, and by integrating the trip actively into the curriculum.
The thought of the field trip will fill my students with excitement and anticipation. They will have the opportunity to see new things and learn about them in a more unstructured way.
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