This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
Steps away from a lush community garden on our historic East Los Angeles campus, globally-minded citizens are the most important things we grow here!
Our Environmental Science and Humanitarian Magnet students make our garden grow!
Under the supervision of a certificated garden ranger, our students have built our garden from the ground up! They do it all... choose the plants we grow, design the garden layout, plant seedlings, weed the beds, and harvest the crops.
Despite the high-quality programming and expectations we have for our students, we are still a 100% Title I school. Our ethnic population is approximately 92% Hispanic or Latino, about 17% are English Language Learners (ELLs), and around 16% receive Special Education services.
A class set of a hyper-realistic fiction novel about being stranded on Mars will fit in beautifully with our unit on space exploration. Mark Watney, the main character in Andy Weir’s novel, travels to Mars and uses science to find his way home again. Not only is it an engaging story, but there will be multiple opportunities to draw connections to our learning as well as inspire some career exploration for my environmental science and humanitarian students. The classroom edition insures that the language will be student appropriate.
Nearly all 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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