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Beaverton Education Foundation has already provided $428 in matching contributions. The campaign has now finished.
OUR STUDENTS AND OUR VISION
We want to fill our fifth-graders' last year of elementary school with happy memories and authentic learning opportunities. Help us send them to the zoo to become field scientists! Experiential learning increases student interest, knowledge and motivation. Field-trips bring students joy and provide experiences that cannot be duplicated in the classroom.
During the field-trip, students will use a map and their observation skills to identify and record the plants and animals found in each of the trophic levels for the ecosystems listed in their Eco-Explorers Food Webs Field Guide.
The following essential questions will guide our research and field study:
- How are plants and animals in an ecosystem connected to one another?
- Where do plants and animals get their energy?
- What happens to an ecosystem when one species’ population changes or disappears?
- What can we do to protect healthy food webs?
After the field-trip, students will:
- Use research from zoo to construct a three dimensional trophic level pyramid for one ecosystem.
- Conduct additional research on their ecosystem to fill in any gaps.
- Identify a plant or animal in their food chain that has been impacted by people.
- Research the ways in which people impacted this plant or animal.
- Learn how to help these animals in the wild.
- Draw a picture of the plant or animal.
- Summarize their findings in a report.
- Present it to their classmates.
Our fifth-grade scholars spent many of their formative years
isolated from peers and learning from home in front of screens.
Most of our students have never experienced the excitement of
going on a school field trip, but your support can change that!
And with the support of Beaverton Education Foundation,
all donations are DOUBLED so your support has twice the
impact! Thank you.
- $7 buys zoo admission for one student
- $35 sends a cohort of 5 students to the zoo
- $70 purchases zoo admission for two cohorts (10 students)
- $175 funds admission for an entire class to visit the zoo (25 students)
 | Beaverton’s Choice is an online crowdfunding platform available only to BSD staff. All funds raised go directly toward the project! BEF funds projects in every school in the Beaverton School District. |
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom projects, summer and after-school programs. In the event that this project does not reach its goal or exceeds its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another similar project. Learn more about BEF at www.beavertonedfoundation.org
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