Past projects 25
Ready, Set, Soar into Chemistry!
Funded Oct 10, 2023Thank you so much for making my class a fun and inviting space to learn. The paper, markers and tissues allow us to make learning accessible through handouts, colored diagrams, and collaborative activities. Students are working together to explain how the invisible atoms shape the world around us.
Students are discussing how water molecules have different formulas from salt. This difference makes water have different chemical properties than salt. Students are able to show one another why you can filter the sand out of ocean water but you cannot filter the salt out.
Students are able to stay in the classroom and engage in learning activities because we have the materials they need. We will be looking at the invisible world of atoms to help explain why salt water conducts electricity but pure water does not. We will look more in depth at how different compounds react. Thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given to our class.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
Odds and Ends for the End of the Year
Funded Apr 26, 2022Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and making sure that we had the basic supplies to finish last year strong and start this school year prepared to learn. We love having basic supplies that allow us to make our chemistry classroom a comfortable, fun and engaging place to learn.
Lab day is one of my students' favorite day of the week. They get to see the chemical concepts we are working hard to understand, come to life and cause real chemical change. The materials you provided were used to help build a strong foundation to our understanding of chemical concepts. When we understand chemical concepts, students find lab more engaging as they can better understand the secrets to the magic causing the chemical changes.
Your kindness and support and uplifting and we will continue to work hard in the chemistry classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
Basic Supplies Setup Our Classroom for Success
Funded Aug 9, 2022Thank you for supporting my classroom with basic supplies to get us started this year. Your kindness filled our classrooms with the basics so we can focus on learning chemistry this year. Students feel pampered as we have tissues, bandages, and the basic supplies that let us take care of our basic needs so we can better focus on learning.
We have used the round magnets to model different types of matter and build atoms to help us better understand how chemical reactions occur. I hope you enjoy the pictures from our recent labs where we were able to study mixtures to turn pennies into golden colored brass. This was an experiment the enjoyed very much.
In class we are studying atoms. Although atoms are too small for us to see we have been building atoms with the magnets. We verified that the electrons in atoms can move and produce specific energy. Our students loved seeing how the electrons in pennies could move and emit green light in a bunsen burner. Your support has made learning the challenging subject of chemistry fun, engaging and something students enjoy sharing with their families. I cannot thank you enough for the kindness you have shown towards my students and our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Funder and 2 other donors.Pure Water Makes Science Labs Pure Fun
Funded May 4, 2022Thank you so very much supporting my classroom so we can produce distilled water for our school's chemistry and biology labs. Before we had our own water still we would have to lug jugs of distilled water in wasteful packaging or we would have to tell students if we had distilled water the experimental outcomes would be different.
In the last month our Living Environment students used the distilled water to study diffusion as they completed one of the state mandated labs in preparation for their exam. AP Biology students used distilled water to study water potential in carrots and chemistry students have observed how distilled water does not conduct electricity, tap water weakly conducts electricity, and salt water strongly conducts electricity. Your generosity has helped more than half of the students taking science this year see science come alive so they can better understand the material they are studying.
We are grateful that you chose to support our classroom. We will continue to use the apparatus to produce distilled water to help use learn science. Your support is encouraging us to continue to explore the science that shapes the world around us.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and 8 other donors.Henrietta Lacks? Let's Find Out About Her!
Funded Oct 21, 2021Thank you so very much for supporting my class and purchasing a copy of Henrietta Lacks for each of my advanced biology students. My students are enjoying seeing the human side of science. Henrietta Lacks lived a compelling life. Examining the injustices that were experienced by her and the learning about the discoveries that her cells made in the field of biology.
Reading this book has made my students more reflective on how science can be done to enrich and support human lives. Henrietta Lacks story is one that shows how the excited of scientific discovery can be intertwined with heartbreaking exploitation and discrimination. Knowing this story students are empowered to imagine the possibilities of scientific discovery to impact the world around us.
It is wonderful to have the opportunity to read this riveting story together with my students. After a year of remote learning the students are loving having a physical book to read together and to keep. It is uplifting to hear students connect with the story and those around them as they tell me they want to share the books with parents, siblings and friends. Thanks so very much for all your support.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by Dollar General Literacy Foundation and 8 other donors.Chemistry Brings Joy With a Fun and Organized Classroom
Funded Jul 15, 2021Thank you for supporting my chemistry classroom. With these materials I have been able to make engaging review games that make learning about atoms and compounds fun! Mine students can role the dice to see which isotope they will draw or roll a pair of elements to predict the compound that will form.
Students really enjoy the opportunity to have a fun way to interact with one another and complete chemistry review. At the end of the class many students asked, "can we do this again?". It is music to a chemistry teacher's ear when students ask to do more work!
Your generous support is heartwarming. Thank you so very much.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by Kleenex® Brand and 3 other donors.Level Up: Learning Chemistry Through Fun Games and Challenges!
Funded Jul 29, 2021Thank you so much for supporting my classroom. With the materials I was able to purchase ingredients to make bubble solution so we could explore how bubbles demonstrate how the cell membrane work. Cell membranes separate 2 watery environments while bubbles separate 2 air environments. Additionally my chemistry students were able to use materials to review the classification of matter and experiment how we can test different physical and chemical properties.
My advanced biology students really loved making bubbles and showing how they can control the movement of materials. My chemistry students loved seeing first hand how pure water doesn't conduct electricity but salt water does. All of these real life experience help my students better understand the complex science topics they are learning. Additionally, these experience are fun conversations for students to bring home and share with their families.
Thank you for helping me make my science classroom a fun space that encourages exploration.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
Getting Steamed Up for Chemistry
Funded May 4, 2021Thank you so very much for your support to our science classrooms. It is so exciting to be back to science in person with fun demonstrations and a student led, hands-on lab every week. Doing science brings the content to life and creates an experience to help recall different concepts.
The kettles have been used to explain how density and heat work in mixing water and how to calculate the specific heat capacity of various metals. Your support has allowed us to participate in meaningful science work.
Thank you for your thoughtful support. We will continue to work hard to learn as much as possible. In the kettles will be used to learn more about enzymes, the heat of fusion, speeding up chemical reactions and so much more!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and 2 other donors.It's Not Magic; It's Chemistry!
Funded May 4, 2021Thank you so very much for the uplifting generosity you shared with my chemistry and biology students. It is so exciting to be back together in-person learning and experiencing science. The materials purchased through this project allowed me to show exciting changes in materials. Once students could see the cool reactions and changes, they were hooked!
The experiments allowed us to build a strong foundation for exploration into our unit. In chemistry we have been looking at properties of atoms, and the changes they undergo and in biology we have been learning about how different molecules make like possible. My students especially enjoyed experimenting to see the properties of water. In the lab they bent water, watched pepper dance over the surface of water and examined how the density of solid water is different than most other substances on earth.
It has been wonderful to hear students, cheers and jeers in the the lab and classroom as they see that science can show them a side of the world they did not expect. I am so fortunate to be able to teacher a wonderful group of scientists. Your kindness and touched us all and allowed me to design fun, engaging, hands-on experiences as we celebrate science together.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and 5 other donors.Updated Mission Control to Support Learning Chemistry Remotely!
Funded Sep 16, 2020Thank you so much for contributing to my project so I can have a second computer monitor for teaching chemistry remotely. The second monitor has allowed me to host more interactive and engaging zoom classes this semester. Now, I can see the content I am presenting to my class and I can see my student's faces, chat questions, and reactions in our virtual classroom at the same time. This allows me to be more connected to my students who must learn remotely.
In my many years as a teacher I have learned that it is important to not only see what work my students are completing but how they are reacting to the tasks assigned to them. The second screen allows me to see when my students are finding material easy or challenging so I may adjust the pace of a lesson to best meet their needs for a challenging but fruitful science education. It is also great that I get to see my students smiling or laughing at my cheesy science jokes!
I am thankful that the second screen allows me to be more productive and have a better connection to my amazing students. Thanks for the kindness and support you have given to my classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Lytle
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose 20th Anniversary Fund and 7 other donors.