My students need a set of workshops at the NY Aquarium to help provide experiences to reinforce concepts we are learning about in our study of sea animals.
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
Do you remember the first time you ever gazed into a fish tank at the aquarium as a child, and felt like the creatures were gazing back at you? Many of our prekindergarteners might not have this experience until they are older, if at all.
Our eager, bright-eyed students, who come from various socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, bring a wide variety of talent and interesting ideas to each lesson.
They are fascinated with marine animals and excitedly anticipate any activity that allows them to explore and discover new things.
Our school as a whole has experienced major budget cuts, and, though the parents are active participants in many fundraising efforts throughout the year, the economic shortfall still requires funding from alternate sources. Each classroom still has its own needs and goals it wants to achieve, whether or not it has the resources to enhance the curriculum to make students fall in love with learning and with becoming life-long learners.
My Project
In order to attend the two units of study-based aquarium workshops, we need to raise the money as soon as possible, or forfeit the trip and rely solely on reference books and DVDs to provide background knowledge about sea life. As anyone who has been to the NY Aquarium can attest, there is no better venue for learning and active engagement than where young students can explore, investigate, and create products based upon their new experiences.
Your generous donation would allow the entire grade to experience these three workshops and follow-up activities to establish a set of "building blocks" for learning that would be carried up through the grades. It will assist them in asking analytical questions and formulating hypotheses as they advance academically, and the rigors of standardized tests require a degree of scientific reasoning based upon early experiences.
By contributing to this project, you will help bring our students closer to engaging in a set of workshops at the NY Aquarium to reinforce concepts and extend our nonfiction sea study.
Students will hear stories, be able to ask questions, and experience first-hand many of the ideas which we will have discussed in class. Please help our students get a bigger picture of the world outside of our classroom in the big, blue sea.
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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