Past projects 14
Fly, See and Be Aware of the Environment!
Funded Apr 30, 2022This project, "Fly, See and Be Aware of the Environment" is meant to provide our young learner insight and a different view of their environment, their community and the wider scope of the neighborhood and what lies beyond its boundaries. The project provided the students a very important tool in understanding their own urban ecology and further help them understand, realize and analyze the different factors, current and potential that affect their sanctuary.
The drone brings excitement to students as they naturally wanted to fly and operate such device. However, it also teaches them to be more responsible in taking care of such expensive gadget. The greater excitement is to be able to see their community from a different perspective!
All of the students have shown interest. Unfortunately, since we only have one set of the gadget, our young scientists and explorers have learned to just collaborate and work selflessly as a team. This project is a good start! Thank you so much for your generous support!”
With gratitude,
Dr. Dancel
Rhythm in Science
Funded Jun 29, 2022Currently, my students are learning some basic rhythm using their newly acquired class set of percussion instruments. During my advisory class, as a way of releasing their creative energy, students are learning to have some fun playing together and mimicking some of the beats of their favorite music. Students were excited and were having fun during our sessions and were truly inspired with their new found musical tools.
Our next step is to develop our own songs that uses what students have been learning in science as inspiration in providing lyrics to the songs that they composed. This is a new experience for my classes and it would not have been possible without your generous help and donation. Thank you!”
With gratitude,
Dr. Dancel
This classroom project was brought to life by General Motors and 2 other donors.Discovering Future Alternative Source of Energy
Funded Dec 23, 2021The different boxes of hands on and manipulatives which represent different sources of energy were used during class as demonstrations and for students to play around and for them to further explore and have a first hand experience on some examples of different sources of energy. When we discussed energy, we used the materials that you donated in order to show and demonstrate that energy are not just collected from fossil based resources but can also be from different alternative sources.
Our young learners were so excited when they saw the materials because kids love toys. They are always motivated to explore and using the box sets indeed make learning enjoyable for them. Getting across the key point of the lessons became more effective and no longer a struggle!
Our next step is for our students to share their opinion and suggest which of the different sources of energy can better replace fossil based energy source. Then, students will be challenged to propose a project or even just share an idea what we, as a society can do so that we may lessen our dependency on the use of fossil fuels and instead promote their suggested or identified alternative sources of renewable energy.”
With gratitude,
Dr. Dancel
This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 3 other donors.Little Voice Be Heard!
Funded Dec 31, 2021The sound system that you donated addressed one of the most common problem in the classroom that was magnified by the pandemic. Even before the COVID period most of our students' voice volume was already and generally soft that affect discussions and sharing of ideas. We could hardly hear each other most of the times. Perhaps this might probably be due to their inherent soft voices or just shyness but the perennial issue of students' poor voice projection in class has been even more magnified with the masking- a consequence of the pandemic. With the sound system that you donated through the "Little Voice Be Heard", students' voices are now lighting up our engagement and discussion!
After using scenarios during lessons and activities where students make believe as news anchor or even as a TV host, students are excited about hearing their voices and being able to hold a real microphone! I observed that when its their turn, students enjoyed using the microphone and their level of engagement is more focused as they can clearly hear each other. Increasing the volume for those with naturally softer voices, even up the playing field of contribution of ideas!
In general, students welcome the idea of having microphones in class as masking really presented a very muffled and confusing experience. At first, the more confident ones were volunteering to act as anchor during class discussion but eventually, almost everyone became more confident with using a microphone in their share of ideas. A lot of these young learners are turning out to be natural speakers!”
With gratitude,
Dr. Dancel