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I am a first year teacher trying to engage my students in an alien world at least to them. Without the direct engagement of hands-on experiences afforded by microscope visuals, preserved specimens, and anatomical models, the experience of engaging with our marine world falls flat. This project is designed to give my classroom much needed resources that can capture my students attention to an aspect of biology, ecology, and physiology that they are completely unfamiliar with. Providing hands-on marine biological experiences to my students will engage them on a fundamentally deeper level, and allow them to feel a connection to our ecologically-linked marine and terrestrial systems. My goal is to provide my students with the resources to ask interesting and curious questions about the world around them, and to become more familiar with the tremendous diversity of our marine ecosystems. By enabling students to explore the wonder of our oceans, it is my goal to establish environmental literacy in an underrepresented community that might not understand how linked our actions are to the health of our oceans. In addition, I want to develop a sense of campus connectivity by challenging my students to take part in the waste-management aspect of environmental literacy by establishing a classroom compost system that feeds into our environmental science magnet. Part of this project purchases a classroom supply to witness the effects of composting, and a classroom bin to start our own composting system. Without exposure to the cycle of our waste, our students will never understand their actions impact our community. Hopefully, this experience will allow my students to have the courage to leave our planet a better place than when they started.

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I am a first year teacher trying to engage my students in an alien world at least to them. Without the direct engagement of hands-on experiences afforded by microscope visuals, preserved specimens, and anatomical models, the experience of engaging with our marine world falls flat. This project is designed to give my classroom much needed resources that can capture my students attention to an aspect of biology, ecology, and physiology that they are completely unfamiliar with. Providing hands-on marine biological experiences to my students will engage them on a fundamentally deeper level, and allow them to feel a connection to our ecologically-linked marine and terrestrial systems. My goal is to provide my students with the resources to ask interesting and curious questions about the world around them, and to become more familiar with the tremendous diversity of our marine ecosystems. By enabling students to explore the wonder of our oceans, it is my goal to establish environmental literacy in an underrepresented community that might not understand how linked our actions are to the health of our oceans. In addition, I want to develop a sense of campus connectivity by challenging my students to take part in the waste-management aspect of environmental literacy by establishing a classroom compost system that feeds into our environmental science magnet. Part of this project purchases a classroom supply to witness the effects of composting, and a classroom bin to start our own composting system. Without exposure to the cycle of our waste, our students will never understand their actions impact our community. Hopefully, this experience will allow my students to have the courage to leave our planet a better place than when they started.

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Past projects 1

Diving Into Marine Literacy and Diversity

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