My students need manipulatives for their Life Science units. This cart includes magnetic animal and plant cells with removable organelles along with a guide that my students will work with in lab at stations.
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 work in stations while in lab and I always try to include manipulatives in my lessons so that my more kinesthetic learners can have greater access to the material. When we learn parts of the cell, it can be overwhelming for students since there are many new vocabulary words involved, and cellular structures are microscopic and not as "tangible" to them, having a hands on model to manipulate will better help them create a visual of the cell's organelles and their function.
My students spend a great deal of their year learning about cancer, its treatments, and its affect on the body.
Since these students are the future doctors and researchers of our society, my goal is to have them develop a deeper understanding of cellular biology at a younger age. After all, their knowledge and comprehension of this topic could be the key to finding the cure.
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