My students need real insect samples to observe in lab while learning how to draft their own dichotomous keys, as well as learn about the vast diversity of our earth's organisms!
My students are fun-loving, enthusiastic scientists ready to take their learning to new levels! Our population is made up of a diverse group of learners from Brooklyn, NY, including ENL students and Special Education students.
My goal is to continue multi-modal, project-based learning in my classroom, where my students perform their own scientific research, build models, innovate solutions to the world's most pressing problems, and use their knowledge of coding to enhance their presentations.
My students are some of the most creative young minds I have ever met, and are always ecstatic at the start of any new project I introduce to them. It is most important that my students understand how to apply what they are learning in the classroom to the real world, and so we analyze case studies after each unit (for example, analyzing Hurricane Sandy during our Weather and Atmosphere unit, or The Fukashima meltdown during our Nuclear Power unit) and then conduct research on their own in order to evaluate where our curriculum fits into the real world.
My Project
My students are BUGGIN' OUT about their spring lab assignment- drafting their very own Dichotomous Keys! Having real insect specimens to observe and work with will connect my students to their diversity unit and state standards in a deeper and more hands-on way. Having tangible insect specimens will increase engagement in their task of creating their own dichotomous keys, since the keys require a detailed knowledge of each organism's physical features.
As my educational background is Entomology and Wildlife Conservation, I've already been prepping my students for our Diversity Unit coming up in April.
Needless to say, they are "ANT"-sy about getting a glimpse of some rare, diverse organisms, particularly insects.
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