Science Success Through Adversity

School:: Vineyards Elementary
Subject:: Science
Teacher:: Angela Roche
Students Impacted:: 100
Grade:: 5
Date:: August 7, 2016

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Harlan & Heather Dam - $104.20

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 60

The purpose of our project was for students to learn about sucessfully scientists and the struggles each encountered. Students read each book and created a mind map about the scientist. Students were able to see that successfully people face failures and in dealing with those failures they can find success.

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Goal

The goal is for students to learn about how even famous scientists have struggled, and to see that learning and growing from setbacks can lead to success. Students will be motivated to learn science, not be afraid of failure, and take risks to find success in their science exploration.

What will be done with my students

Ten different books will be read to students throughout the school year. Each book features a scientist(s) who has endured hardships and failures and how those hardships paved the path to success. Student will write reflections of what was learned in each book in their science journals.

Benefits to my students

Studies have reported that students who read about the personal and intellectual struggles of scientists feel more motivated to learn science.

Budget Narrative

The budget is being used to purchase ten books that will be read aloud to the students.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Brilliant Blunders by Mario Livio	$15.50
2	Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis	$13.10
3	Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola	$14.10
4	Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine, by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu	$12.00
5	Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World, by Laurie Lawler and Laura Beingessner	$6.50
6	On a Beam of Light, by Jennifer Berne and Vladimir Radunsky	$6.50
7	Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Mary Azarian	$8.00
8	The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. Joseph Hopkins and Jill McElmurry	$13.50
9	What Color is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld	$4.50
10	Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World, by Rachel Swaby	$10.50
	Total:	$104.20

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