Words can not express how grateful my students and I are that you were so selfless that you would choose our class to receive your donation. We are so excited about becoming future scientists at work. Although this year is not a tested grade in Science for my students, the skills and experiments that you have assisted with will help prepare the students for such assessments.
The students are especially excited about the Magnetic Field Demonstrator, the Magnet Kit, and the Properties of Light Kits. This is the first time I've seen them excited about Science. So, again, I say thank you.”
I cannot fully express my excitement and extreme gratitude for your donations to my project. It is great to see that you share my vision for reaching children and helping me to build the love of science in young minds.
My students and I are all tremendously excited! With your support, we will be able to turn my class into a more engaging place, where the students will be able to become more independent learners and discover new and interesting things. I am confident that this will increase interest, and thus understanding.
This funding has come right on time. Looking ahead at my lessons for the coming months, I will be able to use all of these materials in an exciting and appropriate way to fuel student learning and achievement. One more time, thanks so much!”
My students, school and I are so very, very grateful for the science supplies that your generous support has provided us. We have already used all of the supplies, and my students have really enjoyed the learning activities that your Donors Choose donations have given them.
The nutrients labs were a huge hit. I divided the activities into distinct labs spread out over the course of a month. All of our experiments followed the scientific method and the students really showed their learning in their lab manuals. We actually had a very interesting outcome when testing a clear liquid for glucose. The iodine changed colors in each test tube, including the control. This was odd, because it only happened in the plastic test tubes; the glass showed glucose in one test tube. One student did some independent research and learned that the type of plastic contained starch!
The introduction to cells labs and slides were used to make slides and study mitosis. The kids were able to see, in the real world, the pictures in their text books!
Thank you again for all of your support. It has meant the world to me. My school has very limited resources, but very enthusiastic students. Your kindness has helped me meet my kids' needs!”
Thank You for your generous gift. Your donation made it possible for me to purchase supplies for my classroom so my students could participate in a hands on inquiry experiment. The students were excited to be able to investigate a question, set up variables and controls and collect their data just like real scientists! This experiment really brought our unit on bacteria to life.
During this project, students studied bacteria. They researched the pros and cons of antibiotics, identified examples of helpful and harmful bacteria, learned about bacterial diseases, and studied the parts of a bacteria cell. In History class, the students were learning about the Middle Ages so they were able to make connections to science class. We also learned about the Bubonic Plague and how bacterial borne diseases affected people during that time period. Based on information from the unit, the students were asked to come up with an experiment they wanted to test involving Bacteria growth in addition to the whole class experiment which was "How much bacteria is on your hands before vs. after you wash them?" Students took sterile swabs to get samples of bacteria from their hands then transferred it onto petri dishes with LB agar so the bacteria could grow. They also compared it with samples after washing their hands. They were able to see first hand the importance of washing their hands because they could clearly see how much more bacteria grew on their unwashed hands!
Next, the students were able to come up with their own questions to test. Some tested; Who had more bacteria, the boys or the girls bathroom? and Where is there more bacteria; a key board or a locker?
The students wrote lab reports, created graphs of their data, and wrote conclusions based on their results. The students created posters and power points about their experiments They presented their lab reports to the class and got critique and feedback from their classmates. The students had the opportunity to improve their writing and speaking skills on ideas that they were passionate about. The students are also more aware of the scientific method.
With the help of your donation, I was able to purchase enough materials to make this exciting project a reality for all of my 4 classes totaling at 90 students. The students were able to deepen their understanding of the microorganisms located all around them and clearly see the importance of preventative measures to protect against disease.”
With gratitude,
Ms. S.
This classroom project was brought to life by NEA Foundation and 6 other donors.
This is just a small token of my gratitude for your generous donation to my classroom. The microscopes and posters that you donated have truly helped my students see and connect to the parts of the cell in a new way. They have sparked conversations of inquiry as well as been pointed out as references by the students.
Our school faces budgeting shortfalls in a lot of areas, and without your help, my students would not have been able to gain these resources. For high school students it can sometimes be difficult to connect the small cellular basis of life to their "bigger worlds," but the visual and hands on aids that you have provided have allowed students to make numerous connections.”
I want to thank all of you for funding my project for plankton nets. We used the nets on a recent trip to Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island. In addition to a wonderful day packed with lots of new experiences for many of my students, we had an opportunity to survey life on the island an in the kelp forest just off shore. The plankton nets were a perfect addition to understanding food webs in the ocean and understanding that a single drop of ocean water is much more than just hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Thank you for this wonderful experience. The pictures and thank you cards are not enough to truly understand the huge impact this trip and this experience had on my students. We are all still talking about it! Thanks.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by Kia Motors America and 8 other donors.
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