Do you remember the first time you made an amazing discovery in science? I like to teach science using experiments and hands-on projects. One of the problems I'm running into is trying to point out scientific terms on small objects or trying to let everyone get a good look at a class experiment.
I teach 6th grade math and science in a middle school in Missouri.
Half of my students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. My students love science class where they get to perform experiments and complete engineering tasks.
My Project
My students participate in hands-on learning activities that sometimes involve glassware, open flames, and chemicals. However, the extent of learning is inhibited because students do not have access to essential safety equipment for eye protection. The goggles we currently have are brittle and falling apart.
In order to do labs and experiments, I must borrow several goggles from other teachers in the building.
This prohibits me from doing as many labs as I would like, as the other teachers are using their goggles for experiments as well.
Laboratory activities involving chemical reactions are the students favorite and provide the greatest learning potential!
Every year, one of the first questions is "Are we going to make something blow up?" They are fascinated with modeling concepts not acceptable outside the science classroom. They want to act like scientists. They want to behave like scientists. They want to think like scientists. They need to be safe like scientists!
I also added 10 stopwatches to this project to use when we do labs that need to be timed.
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