Help me give my students these weather and pollution books to help with their PBL. Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate will be a favorite!
Our elementary school is located in a rural part of North Carolina. Our school is a PreK-5th grade public school with a population of 545 students. We have two Title I blended PreK classes and two Special Education classes. Our current student demographics are 31.68% Caucasian, 30.1% African American, 32.15% Hispanic and 4.609% multi or Asian. 70.64% of our students receive free or reduced-price lunch.
We have some of the sweetest, charming students.
They work hard and come to school smiling despite the fact that many live below the poverty line and some are homeless. At our school, we have a program called Capturing Kid's Hearts. This program is teaching the staff how to capture and build relationships with all students. Every morning we great our students with a handshake and welcome them to the classrooms. We also have scheduled time each day for students to share good things that are happening.
Teachers buy many of their own supplies because they know our families cannot afford to donate. Our intentional relationship building does not need to be overshadowed by the need for supplies. Help us help our teachers protect their supplies.
My Project
These books will help our fifth graders better understand extreme weather, pollution and what they can do to help change things for the better. The fifth graders that I am working with are starting a Project Based Learning project.
These students will learn so much from these new books.
They will read from these different weather books to get an understanding of how severe weather works. They will also be reading the pollution books to see if that affects how the weather changes over time.
Their end result is to figure out what they can do as individuals to make severe weather decrease or how they can help others when it does happen.
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