There is also a need to expand the home connection in the education of students, to further complement and supplement, the school learning. If the student learning process is further enhanced to include parents and other family members, then the student's resources are further expanded, and the learning process is fostered. My project addresses these needs. My project establishes a link between the school and the home. Students select science, mathematics and technology related activity kits to take home, to further add to their learning process, by involving their parents or an adult who is in the home.
Parents work with their students on the kits for as period of two weeks.
Then the kit is returned to school. Student journals are kept to permit students to write about their science experiments and the books they read at home. There is a literacy connection, as trade books accompany the kits home which will foster a love of reading on the part of the students. Parents read the books to their children. The books are related to the science kits.