FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Enguidanos's classroom raised $2,940
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
Our inner-city urban high school serves students who are the neediest students in terms of their life situation. They are in trouble with the juvenile justice system, most of them live in violent, drug infested neighborhoods, and have not been actively and positively engaged in school activities since elementary school.
Our school combines innovative challenging instructional activities with wrap around mental health and social services to help students re-engage in their education as a path out of a very negative situation. All of our students are intelligent, capable and have been through more that most of us will ever experience in a lifetime.
Students often come to us turned off to science because they were not exposed to real life science experiences doing authentic fieldwork that naturally is so motivating and exciting. Rather they complain that science was all about memorization, studying incomprehensible boring text and no hands on learning.
Our school is located beside the Pacific Ocean and very near a large urban city park. We want them to experience the outdoors as their classroom, to help them develop questions and hopefully come up with answers to the questions we are facing in the areas of water, energy, food, global warming and protecting and improving the health of our environment. In order to document our fieldwork, we need a reliable up to date notebook computer that we can take back and forth between fieldwork and classroom for data collection and analysis, mapping biomes, studying micro-macroscopic life forms and documenting lab work through our digital microscopes.
My students need a up to date Apple Macbook Pro computer to assist them in documenting their fieldwork. When students engage in authentic scientific inquiry that address the needs of the organisms found in a natural setting, their enthusiasm, curiosity and sense of adventure is stimulated, allowing them to reveal the true nature of their intellectual abilities. We have not yet found a student who doesn't respond to the wonders of the natural world. They begin to develop a sense of stewardship and a belief that they can make a difference.
When they are able to document their work and create interesting presentations that they can share with our neighbors in the surrounding community, they see that their voice will make a difference. They begin to consider work in life science and environmental science as viable options for career paths.
Your donation tells the students that their scientific inquiry is valuable to others and that they are important to the future of life on our planet. Your generosity teaches students that giving leads to positive outcomes for everyone involved, and this may be the most important lesson that each of us learns in this lifetime.
More than half of 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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