Working with microscopes is just one of the many activities the students have done during the fall semester. They also have used Legos to build a rover named Milo and got to handle red worms, as they learned about decomposers and food webs.
Students learn agriscience at Almira Elementary School. Cleveland's Promise. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Mr. John Whelan’s fifth-graders file into his classroom, and their eyes light up when they see a series of microscopes set up at stations throughout the space.
Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer have embedded two reporters in Almira Elementary School on Cleveland’s West side to document the many challenges teachers face when working with students whose lives are complicated by poverty and the innovate ways they overcome them. “A lot of the schools I go into don’t even have microscopes in the first place,” Mr. Isner later says of exposing students to hands-on work. “At the elementary level, in any school, I’m not sure how much they’re used. But just to be exposed to scientific equipment, different concepts and just building and playing. Play time is important learning time, and I try to set up a lot of lessons that way.
“Eww,” says Ally as she looks into the microscope. “It looks like branches or hair.” She writes her answer, guessing that it’s dog hair.
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