My students need forty owl pellets and one Comparative Skeletal Anatomy Kit for my unit, Endangered! Planet Earth.
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My Students
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin --That is what I want to do with my students. The benefits of hands-on learning are widely acknowledged among educators, and during the past 20 years brain research has underscored its importance.
I teach fifty 4th grade gifted students from fourteen different schools throughout our city.
We are part of a large metropolitan public school district in Alabama and most of the children are on free lunch program. Each day I have different students come from the various schools for gifted class and for most this is the only way they will be exposed to an advance curriculum which is suitable for their intellect.
Alabama has made tremendous education budget cuts including the district in which I teach. We receive no funding for tools and supplies for gifted classrooms.
My Project
In planning my Endangered! Planet Earth unit, I decided that it is important to have my students experience many hands-on activities. This unit emphasizes the environmental issues facing us today and those we will face in the future and adaptation of plants and wildlife. The purchase of barn owl pellets and Comparative Skeletal Anatomy Kit will educate the students about owls by examining their roles in nature by dissecting owl pellets.
Supporting our project will make it possible for my students to have this very important learning experience.
I can "Tell them" - but they may forget. I can "Teach them" and they may remembers. But, most importantly, if I "Involve them" they will learn. Without your help, my students will not be able to be involved, thus learn.
Nearly all 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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