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Hi, my name is Kristy Garza. I am a Interdisiplinary Studies with a Bilingual Certification major. I feel the students are amazed by what they can create, while still learning important insight on science/engineering technology. Due to covid, I feel the students won't get to experience these amaing things from distance learning. How can we help the students create things while learning from home? What type of activites would work best to ensure they are learning science adequately? How can we ensure we reach all students across their learning levels?

During remote learning at the end of last year, I had my students use household objects to model social distancing, and the solar system.  I sent then on sacavenger hunts (either outside or on the internet) to show examples of weathering, erosion, and deposition, examples of the properties of matter, changes in matter, and the difference in items density (more dense, less dense). I also had them go to zoo and aquarium websites to watch the animal cams and observe animal behaviors and adaptations. I hope these suggestions help, the students seemed to enjoy these activities, and I had 97% of my students participate.  I also offered them many choices so they could pick the items they wanted to complete. On the scavenger hunts, I would have more options than I required them to complete.  This was how I incorporated the choice aspect.