My students need some supplies such as heat packs, sulfuric acid, and safety glasses for our Chemistry labs in the Honors Chemistry and AP Chemistry classes.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gomez's classroom raised $452
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.
My Students
Building Scientific knowledge from the combination of a good theoretical background and challenging practical work assignments. This is the key to success. Chemistry classes are desperately in need of creative, highly demanding and challenging practical activities.
The program my students are enrolled to is a Math and Science Magnet Program in a Title I school in LAUSD, with a 90% of minorities in the program, 90% of disadvantage social-economic families, but with a very successful performance (equivalent API of 904).
Students in our program come from different areas in the city, some of them very far from the school. Our program is very rigorous, giving our students Honors level classes and in many cases AP level classes (college level classes taught in High School) as the first and only class on the subject. In these classes, for example, my AP Chemistry class, the students enter with the knowledge they got in their middle school and reach a college level in a single year. Isn't that an amazing accomplishment? I love this program! I feel truly blessed working with this students!
My Project
Safety first! Our students are deeply involved in maintaining an always safe working environment, and mostly when it comes to work in a Chemistry Lab! Safety goggles are the best tool to prevent the consequences of chemical splashes, lab glassware breaking and other potentially hazardous situations. Understanding the hazard is the key to prevention.
All materials of this project are intended to develop several Chemistry lab activities and demonstrations like:
- heat packs are used in groups of two students to demonstrate the concepts of exothermic and endothermic reactions, reversible reactions and in a more challenging activity, to calculate the heat of the reaction happening in a heat pack, one of the key objectives in a Thermochemistry High School lab.
- drinking bird is a very educational toy because it shows a very entertaining way to put in practice concepts like evaporation, heat of evaporation, vapor pressure, center of gravity, torque, etc.
When students are exposed to meaningful and challenging activities is when they take the most out of the educational experiences.
Being able to explain how an apparently simple but actually challenging toy works gives deep meaning to their learning process. It also motivates them to search and give scientific explanations to other everyday life experiences.
Nearly all 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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