Help Ms. L's Intro. to Biology Students Visualize Science
My students need a projector so that they are able to visualize the concepts we study in introduction to biology.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. LeMay's classroom raised $712
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My Students
Do you remember the first time you fell in love with science? Well for many of you that day may have never happened, but for a young hopeful scientist such as myself it happened the first day I ever realized all there was to explore in this world, by seeing a book about oceanography.
My students attend a public school in Mississippi, one of the many Title One at risk of failing schools in Mississippi.
What this means is that in their last 9 years of education, my students have not had the opportunity many other students their age have at even the most basic technologies and classroom experiences. Though at our school, my kids have to work twice as hard and twice as fast just to catch up to national averages. In our room, we're up to the challenge. My students are "College Bound Scholars" and you dare not tell 4th block they're anything but Ohio State Buckeyes. Everyday we work at accomplishing our goals of getting into the "80s club" and growing 3 points on the ACT because my kids know that's what will get them into college. They also know passing my introduction to biology class is one of the first steps toward that lofty end goal of holding a college diploma.
My Project
Teaching introduction to biology without a text book is one of the hardest challenges I could have ever hoped to face in joining Teach For America. Its fairly difficult for a 9th grader to remember what the phospholipid bilayer is when he or she has never seen a picture of one and therefore has no idea how it relates to the rest of the cell. A projector would allow my students the opportunity to see what it is we're studying in introduction to biology class and furthermore open them to the world outside the delta and all it has to discover. I have, on occasion, been able to borrow one of my school's 2 projectors use during instruction and have watched it literally transform my class into one of excitement and exploration. Giving my kids the opportunity to visualize the challenging concepts we're studying in my class will not only allow them learn biology more easily, it will also allow them (possibly their first) glimpse into what science can be outside of a memorization of terms.
Without a text book for every child, a projector is the best and most effective way for my students to learn and master introduction to biology, ultimately making a dent in this achievement gap plaguing our nation.
Seeing, for the first time, all that biology, science, and ultimately the world has to offer through the use of a projector is possibly one of the greatest gifts you could give to my students.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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