Sparking Scientific Curiosity

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 51

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Our fourth graders are so appreciative—and incredibly fortunate—to have had the opportunity to participate in engaging, hands-on science activities, investigations, and experiments throughout our units this year. Your generous donation made this all possible, and we are beyond grateful!

Thanks to your support, our students were able to:

• Use Zoomy handheld digital microscopes to get an up-close view of owl pellet dissections, flower structures, and the textures of rocks and minerals. These close encounters brought their scientific drawings and observations to life in their notebooks.

• Explore food chains in a powerful way through our owl pellet dissections, gaining a real-world understanding of how energy is transferred through a food chain.

• Use thermometers, a kettle, and heat-sensitive paper to explore heat transfer. Students tested how different materials insulate or conduct heat, making connections between what things are made of and how they affect temperature change—real-world learning at its best!

• Work with digital scales, weights, and graduated cylinders to measure mass and volume, strengthening their skills in both math and science as they learned how to calculate and compare the properties of everyday objects.

• Investigate speed and motion using a spinning ball ramp, observing how the angle, height, and surface affect how fast or far an object travels. The excitement as they made predictions and tested variables was electric!

• Continue to explore other amazing concepts like magnetism, rock and mineral properties, and animal structures through additional tools and activities that made each unit come alive.

These hands-on tools and experiences made science real, relevant, and memorable. Instead of simply reading about concepts, our students were able to see, touch, and investigate—building a stronger understanding and a deeper love for science.

Your donation benefited all of our fourth-grade classes, not just mine, and we are so thankful for your generosity and kindess. You've helped create a classroom where students can ask questisons and seek answers through discovery.  

We can't thank you enough for your support! 

With heartfelt gratitiude, 

Lindsey Fitz

Fourth Grade Teacher