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  • Bayfield Middle School
  • Bayfield, CO
  • More than a third 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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Mother Nature is the original teacher. By taking the classroom outside and helping students engage with the natural world, we can inspire them to become life-long learners. Students spend too much time staring at screens rather than opening their eyes to the beauty all around them. From a young age, kids are intrigued by the creepy-crawly world of insects; by harnessing that natural fascination I can make science more approachable for all students. Whenever I bring my personal insect collection to school, my students always beg me to let them go bug-hunting. On numerous occasions I have taken my students outside to search for new specimens, but without proper nets, kill jars, and mounting frames and pins, it is difficult to create an insect collection. I know that a classroom insect collection will inspire thoughtful and insightful questions that will lead my students to an authentic means of learning science. My students will be encouraged to to ask things like Why are the butterflies so colorful? How come bees have stingers? Do bugs poop? and Why can't we keep caterpillars? These sorts of questions open the door to a world of possibilities: adaptations, body systems, ecosystems, classification, the scientific method. By allowing my students to create a classroom insect collection at the beginning of the school year, I will have a perfect means of scaffolding scientific knowledge based on a shared experiences.

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Mother Nature is the original teacher. By taking the classroom outside and helping students engage with the natural world, we can inspire them to become life-long learners. Students spend too much time staring at screens rather than opening their eyes to the beauty all around them. From a young age, kids are intrigued by the creepy-crawly world of insects; by harnessing that natural fascination I can make science more approachable for all students. Whenever I bring my personal insect collection to school, my students always beg me to let them go bug-hunting. On numerous occasions I have taken my students outside to search for new specimens, but without proper nets, kill jars, and mounting frames and pins, it is difficult to create an insect collection. I know that a classroom insect collection will inspire thoughtful and insightful questions that will lead my students to an authentic means of learning science. My students will be encouraged to to ask things like Why are the butterflies so colorful? How come bees have stingers? Do bugs poop? and Why can't we keep caterpillars? These sorts of questions open the door to a world of possibilities: adaptations, body systems, ecosystems, classification, the scientific method. By allowing my students to create a classroom insect collection at the beginning of the school year, I will have a perfect means of scaffolding scientific knowledge based on a shared experiences.

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