My sixth grade students are a fun group of students from Bakersfield, California. These students have a wide range of academic ability, but they care for and help each other. My students are working on creating a classroom community that is based on respect and understanding.
Even though my students come from diverse backgrounds, they all share an inquisitive nature that makes learning exciting.
They love to look for evidence in pictures and text to help them solve life's mysteries. My students love to try new things and persevere through difficulties they may have.
Each child in my classroom loves hands-on activities where they learn through exploration. They love science and are looking forward to all of the topics that sixth grade covers. They are a wonderful group of students and I am honored to share their last year of elementary school with them.
My Project
My students love hands-on science activities. Looking at cells in a microscope, creating Punnett squares for heredity, and creating solar ovens for energy have always been activities they get excited about. Unfortunately, when it came to studying weather, they typically study already created forecasts and look at simulations of weather patterns. How wonderful would it be for my students to be able to collect real-time data, from a weather station mounted on top of their classroom?
When this project is funded, my students will be able to collect data that provides evidence for the motions and interactions of air masses so that they will be able to predict the change in weather patterns.
More importantly, they will be doing this with the changes in weather patterns that will affect their lives. The weather station will allow them to collect the data. Once the data is collected they will be able to create color-coded charts that can be used to help them predict how the weather is going to change.
Not only does this meet a science and ELA standard, but it will also get them more excited about the weather, and the next time it is going to snow in Bakersfield, they will be prepared.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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