My students need hands-on erosion and rock activities, digital cameras, and laptops to gain more knowledge about rocks, minerals, and erosion in a new way.
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
"For most students academic learning is too abstract. They need to see, touch and smell what they read and write about," John Goodland said. My students are in need of hands-on materials to understand rocks, minerals, and erosion.
My students come from a high poverty neighborhood with a very diverse range of home structures: nuclear, single parent, multiple-family, foster, migrant, and military, to name a few.
With such diversity, it is to be expected that each student is going to have a very divergent range of personal, social, emotional, and educational needs when compared to schools that serve a more homogeneous population.
This aside, they are just children and need to have fun, and laugh, question, explore, create, and interact with each other in an effort to develop the knowledge and social skills needed to be successful individuals.
My Project
These materials will be used in a month long project for each of my science classes. The Global Change kit contains enough activities to set up a total of 8 centers along with an erosion table and the rocks & minerals kit. The students will be split up into groups that will rotate through the various stations completing the hands-on activity at each one.
The class will then be making trips out to the playground and use the digital cameras to record erosion; they will also be collecting rock and mineral samples for identification. The different groups will then collaborate to create a presentation of their findings on the laptops.
To create diversity between the presentations students will be allowed to bring pictures from home as well as check out the cameras to take pictures in other places that show erosion.
Many students find science to be an overwhelming and static topic.
These hands-on materials will allow students to experience science in a new and exciting way, proving that science is more than just a textbook subject.
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
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