My students need a hands-on approach, specifically a Weather and Climate Kit, Interactive Weather Tracker and Map Sets to help them learn about weather.
Giving students a real world, hands-on knowledge of weather and the tools used to predict the weather is difficult.
I teach in a high poverty school in the state of Georgia.
I find that my students do not have a background knowledge of many of our science curriculum standards. As a teacher, I must find a way to make the curriculum "real" to my students. I find that they learn better when they can touch and feel what we are learning.
My Project
My students need a hands-on approach, specifically a Weather and Climate Kit, Interactive Weather Tracker and Map Sets to help them learn about weather. These kits will give my students the hands-on and real world knowledge that they are lacking. These kits will allow them to experiment with different weather equipment, as well as map out different weather systems. We can use these in conjunction with internet sources to help students learn to predict.
I want to instill in my students a LOVE of learning.
I can make them excited about school, then I have chance of reaching them. Science (and the experiments that we get to do) has a way of giving children that WOW sensation that I want them to have!
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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