My students need 35 science journals and exciting materials, like the Tigtag Videos , to engage their imaginations and curiosity in all things science.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
Help create an exciting and engaging science curriculum for my students. Our school is facing tough economic times and cannot afford to purchase enough science materials for my entire class. As a result, our ability to have exciting and enriching lessons is greatly hindered.
My students are almost all from low income, high crime, and struggling households.
They attend a very small school that struggles to provide the necessary materials they need, based on a very tight budget. They yearn to have engaging and exciting lessons and activities. Their eyes light up when they get to experience new projects they have never experienced, let alone heard of, previously. Many of my students have special needs, and the use of technology helps motivate and engage them to want to be "researchers," "inventors," and "scientists." They love hands-on projects, and with a little help will be ecstatic to be in control of their own learning. Help motivate them to become lifelong learners, and passionate about science and all learning.
My Project
My fifth graders currently have no science materials. This includes textbooks, resources for science experiments, and even science journals. The notebooks will provide them a place to record all of their questions and subjects for self-discovery. The two programs will allow their imaginations to flow, provide them with a visual representation of the materials, and open up their eyes to the many areas they can explore and drive their own natural curiosity of science and how the world and everything in it works. Students will be able to take what they see, and then in turn create experiments and inquire more deeply into subjects they find fascinating. They will record their insights, share their ideas with the class, and then as teams create projects to share with each other and the younger students in the school. Projects will be displayed throughout the building, and community members will be invited to participate. Creating lifelong lovers of science for everyone involved.
Science has become a forgotten subject in schools lately.
By providing my class these materials, engagement and self-motivation will increase in my students. Please help these students who cannot afford the materials on their own to achieve the science education they so richly deserve.
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