My students need a document camera so that they can easily, clearly and safely follow the development of chemical demonstrations or other processes.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gomez's classroom raised $642
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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
The document camera will be connected to a LCD projector so students can follow detailed aspects of one of the most important type of experimental activity, chemical demonstrations, live from their seats, safe from getting exposed to chemical splattering or excessive heat/light.
The program my students are enrolled to is a Magnet Program in a Title I school, with a 90% of minorities in the program, 90% of disadvantage social-economic families, but with a very successful performance.
Students in our program come from difference areas in the city, some of them very far from the school. Our program is very rigorous, taking our students 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.
My Project
Chemistry is a challenging subject to teach and learn, because of the multiplicity of information modalities the students deal with. From traditional lecturing, to laboratory procedures, inquiries, from hands-on molecular modeling to abstract problem solving strategies. Some of the experiences are fully developed by the students in a chemical laboratory, but in some others, called chemical demonstrations, the teacher just exposes the students to the experience in a single setup, without making a complete lab activity out of it. Students observe its development from their seats, receiving some sensorial information (visual, odor, touch, smell...). In a big Chemistry class (more then 20-25 students), a recording device is needed so we can project the recording with a web cam and the students can monitor every single detail of the process from their seats. The document camera will be connected to a laptop computer and the recording will be live monitored with an existing LCD projector.
Being able to safely follow a chemical demonstration and to record and later replay and edit its video recording is a great learning tool for Chemistry students.
This will for sure expand the phenomenological experience and favor to establish the always difficult connection between reality and scientific models. How to interpret a phenomenon and how to predict the outcome of a process are both the result of the students articulating the knowledge acquired.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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