The BioChemistry of Digestion and Respiration Mystery
Help me give my students scientific probes to measure carbon dioxide and dissolved oxygen as they explore the bio-chemical energy transfer involved in digestion and respiration.
$636 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! 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.
Most of our middle school students enter this year below grade level in reading and math. Our school is a neighborhood school with mostly low-income families with many students having siblings in lower grades. All of my students receive free lunch under the federal Title I program. Fifty percent of my students this year are formally identified with Special Needs including ASD, SLD and many English Language Learners. Some have social anxiety and class presentations/public speaking are very hard for them.
My students, many with special needs, come from low-income households, yet they come to school every day excited to learn.
Engaging them in meaningful ways, and creating a rigorous, hands-on science classroom/lab environment is a necessity. They demand the best from me and I strive to give them the best learning experience I can. My focus remains to give the students access to the best, grade-level appropriate equipment for our active science investigations.
My Project
This project allows my students to record and visualize real-time data as it relates to their study of the biochemical processes behind respiration and digestion. Their overall unit question is "How Does Food Provide My Body Energy".
The equipment requested allows eighth grade students to use electronic sensors to measure some important indicators involved in respiration and digestion as part of their capstone unit.
It is my hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will pass so that students will be able to engage in the hands on science activities they love before they graduate.
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