My students need 8 kits to Model DNA Replication and Transcription.
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My Students
Hello, I am a NYC high school biology science teacher. I teach mostly 9th and tenth grade students, and as with most city schools our student population is extremely diverse: racially, economically and academically.
Science is a hands-on discipline, students learn best when they complete and write about activities or experiments that they conduct themselves!
Unfortunately, we all know the current budgets crisis has had a great impact on school budgets and so funding for supplies for 20 biology lab classes is beyond the financial capabilities of our school. During labs classes, when students should ideally being doing activities, students usually complete paper labs that simulate the real deal. So it is up to the individual teacher to find fun ways to stimulate our student's minds and get them excited about the topics we are learning.
My Project
In order to make science lab class fun for our students I have requested 8 DNA replication and transcription Kits. These kits will allow students, early in the term, and then again in the spring, to DO something in lab as well as in class. They will create the genetic material of all living things, DNA, from its building blocks. Later in the year we will be able to take these model kits out again and show how the structure of DNA allows it to be copied for cell division or used create our individual traits! The students will be able to see with their own eyes processes that occur on the molecular level in every cell of their body.
Biology can be a difficult subject, full of an almost entirely new language of scary words and concepts that seem so far removed from a teenager's daily life.
But, in biology every unit builds on the last and if students tune out early they will be hard pressed to succeed. I know that if I can get them excited about coming to class; if I can make them curious about what is coming next from the beginning of the year then the battle is already half won! I just need your help to succeed.
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