My students need 67 pig hearts to continue learning about human anatomy.
$998 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.
Most of my students live in a poor neighborhood, at the dividing lines of two gang territories. Our school lacks extracurricular activities, a variety of exploratory classes, and sometimes even qualified teachers. My students are between the ages of 11 and 12. My students love learning, discovering and creating. They are incredibly creative in completing assignments despite their socioeconomic challenges.
Although my students come from different disadvantaged backgrounds, in my class we have one common goal, and that is to finish school with formal training for the career of their choice.I do my best to prepare them for real life by teaching real world application of the curriculum.
They have several opportunities to expand on their knowledge through labs and other creative projects. My students learn hands on. Their education should always be at their hands.
My Project
My students have been learning about their cells, genes, and nutrition. The last step in their understanding how it all fits together is through hands on experience looking at a heart. My students have learned how lifestyle choices can have epigenetic impacts, and even nutrition can affect their performance day to day. Nothing puts these lessons more in perspective than seeing hands on what an animal heart looks like.
By dissecting these hearts they will see how every valve is well engineered to keep them alive but they will also see how fragile our system is if it is not well taken care of.
My students will work in groups of 3 as they have their first experience seeing an animal heart. They will use the provided handbook along with my instruction to learn how this heart is very similar to theirs. All of this to continue their appreciation for science.
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