Help me give my students a chance to explore metal and alloy manufacturing principles with metal casting and electroplating materials!
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Brown's classroom raised $638
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My Students
My classroom, part of a large urban high school in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, is extraordinarily diverse. I serve a student population from all over the globe. A large number of my students have emigrated with their families as refugees from countries like Nepal, Iran, the Philippines, and Syria. Most of my students are growing up in households that experience economic hardship. Our district and school is 100 % free lunch, and considered high needs; an indication of the challenges my learners face even before they begin their adult lives.
Despite all of these challenges, my scholars are generally inquisitive, and truly want to understand how the world works and how they can make a positive impact.
One way that my scholars can explore these concepts is through hands-on inquiry and project based learning. However, funding for supplies and equipment to facilitate these endeavors is often in short supply. I am continuously seeking new ways to creatively offer authentic real-world scientific investigations so that H. can explore alloy production, and eventually, apply this to her future in chemical engineering and B. can finally achieve "alchemist level 10". My students truly have so much to offer!
My Project
Through both inquiry and project-based investigations with these materials, my students will gain a familiarity with alloy manufacturing and real world chemical engineering concepts in a vastly important industry. They will get to experience hands-on interaction with metals and metallurgy and understand how mixing, heat, and cold-treating metals influences their properties. They will ultimately have a richer understanding of metallic properties, crystallization of metals, and metallic bonding and how material goods are influenced by these properties and processes.
Resources like these are not commonly seen in a science classroom and require a substantial investment, but the applications for my students are vast.
My chemistry students will use these materials to explore metallic bonding as well as electrochemistry and electroplating through zinc and copper plating as an industrial process. As an added bonus they will use the kinetic sand to explore intermolecular forces. My freshmen physical science students will use these resources to investigate metallic properties and alloys as a solid solutions (homogeneous mixtures) as well as thermal energy transfer. I am positive with time I will discover more diverse uses for these materials as well. Many of these materials are not consumable and can be reused for several years!
More than half of 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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