Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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The materials that I have requested for this project are necessary to care for a class pet. The pet that we have chosen as a class is a rat. Rats are friendly, intelligent, and clean animals. They make excellent companions and are small enough for the teacher to carry back and forth to her house on long school breaks.
Students will have the chance to make different observations about the rat and we will incorporate these observations into our curriculum in order to learn about the scientific method. The items that have been requested for the rat are the necessary items to initially begin to care for the rat. The teacher will incur the cost of the rat itself, the food, bedding, and treats after these run out. The cage, carrying case, and play pen are all necessary to keep a pet inside a classroom.
As rats are intelligent, social creatures, they need toys to keep them entertained or they will begin to be destructive. The toys will be used to create obstacle courses for the students to interact with the pet as well as make predictions for science experiments (i.e. how long will it take the rat to finish without cheese vs. with cheese). We will also use the rat to teach students about caring for another being and how it is important to care about feelings, regardless of the creature.
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The materials that I have requested for this project are necessary to care for a class pet. The pet that we have chosen as a class is a rat. Rats are friendly, intelligent, and clean animals. They make excellent companions and are small enough for the teacher to carry back and forth to her house on long school breaks.
Students will have the chance to make different observations about the rat and we will incorporate these observations into our curriculum in order to learn about the scientific method. The items that have been requested for the rat are the necessary items to initially begin to care for the rat. The teacher will incur the cost of the rat itself, the food, bedding, and treats after these run out. The cage, carrying case, and play pen are all necessary to keep a pet inside a classroom.
As rats are intelligent, social creatures, they need toys to keep them entertained or they will begin to be destructive. The toys will be used to create obstacle courses for the students to interact with the pet as well as make predictions for science experiments (i.e. how long will it take the rat to finish without cheese vs. with cheese). We will also use the rat to teach students about caring for another being and how it is important to care about feelings, regardless of the creature.