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Evolve an Urban Teen

My students need books about hominid evolution, 3 science coloring (text) books and 11 DVDs that illustrate evolution, gene mutation, disease spreading (case study from NY!), breeding, the incredible human body, famous scientists, and the brain.

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Hi! I teach 9th grade sustainable science in an urban, high-needs, low-preforming High School. In NY, we are still required to teach evolution!

Did you know that only 40% of the United States accepts the evolution of organisms on planet earth? (link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html) As a science teacher, I'd like to do my part to increase this statistic. However, evolution is a tricky situation in the religious community I teach in...

Therefore, I realized that this "opinion" can't come just from me. It needs to be supported by well-known scientists (Jane Goodall) and mind-blowing data (pick up the book "The Last Human) and illustrated processes (disease spreading, gene mutation, breeding). That is why I identified amazing books, DVDs and activities to slowly introduce the students to the concepts of evolution. I'll do this gradually--We'll look at breeding in dogs, and our ability to "change" them. Move on to the "evolution" of our food. The "evolution" of diseases. I hope in the end we'll be ready to grapple with hominid evolution (I have a life-sized model skull of Homo erectus waiting in my supply closet).

Help "evolve" my students. Understanding evolution is going to essential in our fight of diseases, protection of Earth's diverse inhabitants and our general sustainability as a species. My students deserve to learn where they came from. Thanks for helping me reach this goal. And--as a side note--since this project is academic, it will simultaneously be working to increase the college preparedness of my students. We will do Socratic Seminars to discuss this "hot topics"--teaching discussion skills. We will evaluate through writing the validity of different researchers' conclusions/evidence, etc. We will articulately support our own opinions with evidence...The more diverse resources available in my classroom--the more varied exercises I can give the students to prepare them for college. Thanks!

Ms. W. Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School Grades 9-12

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

120 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope Emily Goldberg • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk Joanne Scoffield, Jane Goodall • Barnes and Noble $13.49 1 $13.49
NOVA: Typhoid Mary - The Most Dangerous Woman in America • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
National Geographic: In the Womb Toby Macdonald • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
National Geographic: The Incredible Human Machine Steven Tyler • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
National Geographic: Inside the Living Body Martin Williams • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Homo Sapiens 1900 Peter Cohen • Barnes and Noble $26.99 1 $26.99
Nova: Secrets of the Mind Christopher Rawlence, Alan Ritsko • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Evolution • Barnes and Noble $89.99 1 $89.99
Big Dogs, Little Dogs • Barnes and Noble $22.49 1 $22.49
NOVA: Family That Walks on All Fours • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty Species of Extinct Humans G. J. Sawyer, Ian Tattersall, Viktor Deak, With Ian Tattersall • Barnes and Noble $40.50 1 $40.50
Human Evolution Coloring Book • Frey Scientific, Inc. $21.95 1 $21.95
Zoology Coloring Book • Frey Scientific, Inc. $21.95 1 $21.95
Botany Coloring Book • Frey Scientific, Inc. $21.95 1 $21.95

Materials cost

$385.24

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.52

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$438.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$96.27

Total project goal

$534.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $534.84

4 Donors

-$267.43

Donations toward project cost

-$219.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.14

match offer

-$267.41

Match offer toward project cost

-$219.28

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.13

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