My students need books to help us design and apply for a grant to fund a green roof on top of our public school in Queens, NY.
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My Students
At my school, we immerse students in Expeditions of Learning to better prepare them for what awaits them in the real world 21st century. Therefore, we want to arm students with real world environmental issues and opportunities for growth.
We are a NYC public school with public school needs.
My students come from many economic backgrounds. They are from many countries around the world and they are at different academic levels. We range from special education students to the very high functioning students. They attend an expeditionary learning school, where textbooks are rarely used and experiences and field work help students to build lasting connection with the subject matter. We believe in cross-curricular learning expeditions, where all subjects contribute to a common subject matter. In this way, we are utilizing more skills than just traditional pencil and paper abilities. This type of teaching necessitates great preparation on behalf of the teachers and greater attention on behalf of the students. Due to this intense and enriching environment, some students can feel challenged because we are pushing thinking and requiring higher order thinking skills in order to complete a task.
My Project
These books will help our students conduct research on green roofs. These books will provide valuable information such as how green roofs benefit the community and the environment. Students will immerse into a 2-month long intensive study of Green Roofs. Students will be grant writers, landscape architects, Goggle Sketch-up artists, and fund raisers. These texts will be used to help us first raise money to get a structural engineer to inspect our school roof, and eventually construct a green roof on our school!
Your donation will help us design and write grants for our school green roof.
Eventually, your donation could potentially help us build an outdoor classroom/lab to conduct our science classes.
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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