Help me give my students replica hominid skulls in order to study the evolutionary relationships of humans and their near relatives.
FULLY FUNDED! Dr. Moll's classroom raised $948
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.
My Students
I teach in a Title I School in East Harlem. Students come from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds but are extremely motivated to learn. Students spend many hours after school studying. My school is lucky enough to afford most of the students an opportunity to take AP classes. We also have a large percentage of the student body who are students with disabilities (20% or so) and have developed a great program for them through the school. These are disadvantaged but very deserving kids.
My Project
These materials will help students learn about evolution using inquiry. I had tried to fund a similar donor's choose project in the past with full-size skulls and unfortunately was not able to. I will still be able to do the activity with these half-size skulls, and we can say, perhaps that they are skulls from fossils of adolescents.
These lab-grade hominid skulls will allow students to take physical measurements with a goal of better understanding human evolution.
This will give the students a hands-on experience that will help them identify changes that have happened over time in their own species. I have done this lab before with a small group of students at the American Museum of Natural History and after seeing student excitement around it, I would really love to bring it to the whole school.
More than three‑quarters 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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