Expanding Traditional State Reports to Include Environmental Impact Info
My students need an assortment of colored recycled paper and a books about twenty-six states.
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My Students
I teach in a school that is high poverty, all of our students are economically disadvantaged and eligible for free breakfast and lunch. We have a number of students who are homeless. In my classroom alone I have had over 50% of my students come and go during the school year. Many of my students are the children of deployed military personnel. Several of my students are also here in the United States for the first time, and English is not their first language.
My sixth graders need to read, research, think about and then solve ecological problems.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said that, "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." My students need to learn about what Americans have done to the soil, forests and water of our country in the name of progress and development.
The students in my 6th grade class are trying to be successful but they need because they need up to date materials that are on their level.
My Project
Every year, my sixth graders research and write state reports. They pick a state and do an informational poster but I want to do something different. I want to make their research more meaningful and holistic. This year I plan to have my students to create their own book that includes information on all the states.
Instead of the old, tried-and-true traditional state reports, I want my students enlarge their reports, concentrate on the geologic features of the states and include information about energy consumption and development of natural resources.
This project has the potential to change the ways in which my students think about the United States, the continent of North America, individual states, types and uses of energy, and how humans have changed the landscape. I am asking for new, up-to-date books about 26 individual states for my students to use for their research and recycled colored copier paper for their interactive report journals.
More than half 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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