My students need beakers, graduated cylinders, test tubes, and digital scales, other lab supplies for everyday labs as well as storage drawers to help us stay organized.
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
My wonderful kids are excited by science, but are disadvantaged socioeconomically. Our school tries to give them the best possible education, but we need that extra little push to get them the next level and provide them with hands-on scientific experience. We want to make science relevant to our middle school students. We are a Title I middle school in a challenging neighborhood. We are dedicated to making strides in improving the overall academic achievements one student at a time.
My Project
First of all, I would like to thank you for stopping by and reading about my project, I know that you have many worthy choices.
My wonderful 7th and 8th grade students are eager to have some hands on science labs, however our glassware and equipment is at least 20 years old and these tools have been used and “loved” by 10000+ students during this time.
I am hoping that by providing our science students with some new glassware it would allow each student to have hands on practice with graduated cylinders, beakers, thermometers, and scales. Students would use the laboratory tools to improve their understanding of the metric system, which has been a struggle for my students. With addition of beakers, thermometers, and hot plates students will have better chance of working individually (without sharing with the whole class) with each tool and they will become better prepared for high school and their future education.
With the new science standards we would like to incorporate more STEAM/hands on activities. We are looking to have students get excited about real life science and build roller-coasters and study energy (Kinetics and Potential) and motion and forces using the real life examples. For that reason we are asking for the insulation pipes, marbles, and masking tape. These tools would help our students build a roller-coaster, and see motion and energy in action. I am hoping to bring real life examples to my classroom, to engage students in critical thinking, engineering and troubleshooting all while learning about exciting topics of physics.
In order to have as much time as possible, the crates and plastic drawers would be used to get our projects organized by period and ready to STEAM!!
More than three‑quarters 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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