Help me give my students materials that will help them understand bacteria and viruses with powerful hands-on labs and visuals. Balancing chemical equations will allow them to see molecular bonds as well as scale and proportion.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Zellner's classroom raised $781
This project is fully funded
My Students
My students attend a country school on the big island of Hawaii where many kids have not traveled more than 20 miles from home. These kids are hungry for opportunities to explore and learn about their own Island, and how it fits with the rest of the world. Currently the rest of the world is dealing with the CoVid19 Pandemic. This has directly impacted our islands both economically and culturally. Our backyard is literally the Pacific Ocean, but it has not protected us from the virus. The best we can do is to understand how the virus is transmitted and how to best protect ourselves.
My Project
The materials I have selected will help students build their framework of what a pandemic is from the molecular level to the pathogen and human level.
What are the differences between viruses and bacteria?
How do scientists study them in the lab and come up with cures or preventions?
Students will run experiments with bloodtyping, simulated transmission of a virus and how antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth using agar plates and antimicrobial disks.
The complexity of a pandemic has hit home due to CoVid19. We need our students to understand the science behind fighting a pandemic.
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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