My students need materials to help them prepare for an environmental competition, some of which include soil samples, leaf and seed ID cards, and water turbidity tubes.
Hello everyone, I am a NY high school biology teacher. My classes are generally composed of freshman and sophomore students, many of whom, seem to have lost (or hidden) that childhood curiosity for the world around them that was, at one time, so insatiable.
Yet, I have begun couching a group of urban NYC students who are excited and eager to learn all they can about the environment in which we live and that is common in the rest of the state.
Many of these students want to pursue careers in environmental fields when they go to college.
Yet college is three years down the road, and the Envirothon Competition we wish to participate in is next year. But we are starting the team from scratch, and so we have no materials with which to study and prepare!!
My very urban students who barely see trees will be competing against upstate students who have 4H programs at their schools as well as farm animals on campus!!
We need to bring the environment to our classroom because there is precious little of it outside!
I am asking for your help to buy the lab materials they will need to compete against students from all 55 counties in NY state, in the fields of Forestry, Aquatics, Soils and Wildlife.
My Project
And so I am asking for seed and leaf ID cards and a tree dating kit to prepare for Forestry. For Aquatics we need turbidity readers, a clinometer and a Secchi Disk. But most of all we need SOIL!! There is so very little green space here in NYC and what there is we most definitely can not dig through to take soil samples for examination and testing. And so we need to purchase soil to help the students prepare for an examination about a natural environment to which they are not accustomed! But its not just soil - we need pH readers and rock formation samples,we needs sedimentation tubes and screen sieves to separate the soil layers!!
They so want to learn and I want to facilitate in any way I can.
Activities and programs like these teach the students how to work together to solve problems and approach adversity. These are skills they will need as they prepare for and attend college, as well as for all that follows.
Help me to prepare these eager and excited students to compete against their more rural peers in a competition on unfamiliar territory.
But more importantly help me to help these environmentally conscience students to achieve their goals of acting as future stewards of this world!
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