Ethnographic Study: Thermal

In the writing Fremont High School by Jonathan Kozol he discusses the reality of urban schools and how they are unable to obtain the proper education. At Fremont High School children are not always able to eat during their lunch period, the proper education needed for college is not obtained, the school reflects institutional discrimination, and the building is overcrowded limiting course offerings for children.

1.describe the social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of children and young people (unit 7)

• Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word autobiographical research paper analyzing the influences of race as it relates to your community. In your paper, write your first-person account of how human interactions in your community have been racialized. For the community, you may consider relations within your neighborhood, local government, service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which you are a part.

Understanding a community is essential when planning for instruction. My current placement is at Kofa High School which is a located in an urban community –Yuma, Arizona- with an estimated population of 93,000 people. It is fundamental to recognize that Yuma’s population mostly consists of Hispanic and White people. Although English is mostly spoken in this area, Spanish is commonly heard in the community due to the high Hispanic population.

John Kelley Elementary is in the bottom 20% of California elementary schools based on the

High-poverty schools suffer from fewer resources, greater teacher and administrator shortages, fewer applications for vacancies, higher absenteeism among teachers and staff, and higher rates of teacher and administrator turnover. For example, the likelihood is greater that children will have difficulty learning to read if they are poor, non-white, or non-native speakers of English. In 2000, only 16 percent of Hispanic fourth-graders and only 12 percent of blacks scored at or above proficient levels of achievement in reading, compared to 40 percent of whites (ca.gov). At the end of a decade of unprecedented efforts nationwide

Another important part of a school improvement plan is The student population at DMS is made up of 60% Latino and 40% Caucasian. The Latino population is primarily in the lowest socio-economic group, with 40% living at or below the poverty line. The Caucasian population is made up of 5% in the lowest and middle socio-economic class and 35% in the highest socio-economic class. The socio-economic gap between the two groups is quite high. Over the last few years the new administration has made it a

This ePortfolio is a collection of the progress that I have made in my ENC 1102 class at the University of Central Florida. Throughout the semester I have grown as a writer as I have learned how to conduct research on a specific community to support my central argument and how to evaluate each aspect of my research process through the analysis of multiple complex texts. I have also learned how to interpret my research findings to produce an argument that matters to my community and how to effectively reflect over the research methods that I used. Throughout the course I have been successful in creating a research process specific to my community, interpreting my research findings, and creating a valid argument for my research,

For my mini ethnography paper I wanted to choose the Boys and Girls Club of Alachua County as my social setting. The Boys and Girls Club is a place where children come to be children, especially when they do not have the opportunity to do so at home. Most of these children have to take some type of adult role when they get home from the program because of personal circumstances. The Boys and Girls club is located in the middle of a low income neighborhood, where parents are barely able to pay their weekly fees for their children.

In California, the academic achievement of low-income minority students in urban public schools falls behind the academic achievement of white students in higher-income areas. For example, according to the 2013 STAR test results, 86% of white non-economically disadvantaged 9th graders at Antelope High School, in the Roseville Unified School District, attained advanced scores in reading compared to only 58% of low-income Black and 49% Hispanic ninth graders (California Department of Education, 2015).

The population I am interested in researching is low socioeconomic status minority adolescents. With this population I want to look at their relationship with their community and factors that play into their academic achievement and how these two elements of their lives intertwine. Their relationship with their community/ neighborhood includes factors such as their participation in community activities, community violence exposure, part-time employment, youth groups, volunteering activities and their perception of neighborhood belonging. School-related aspects that play into their academic achievement includes looking into their grades, aspirations, motivation, academic mentors, and extra-curricular activities. I want to study these influences

Emily Whitmer Rose Glasser EDTP 201 10/28/16 Ethnography: The Building Blocks of Learning I remember my first day going to a school to observe. It felt more inquiring, rather than being obligated to go to school just because I had to, like the state required us to. Ever since I have been given two field placements, I have been increasingly interested in the teaching profession. My first field placement has been an eye opener for all other rolls in a school. It has showed me just how important other rolls are in a school, and how they can affect and tie into how a student does in a classroom. Having two field placements has given me a new outlook on the classroom environment, curriculum, and what goes on behind the scenes in the teaching profession. In my second field placement, which is what this ethnography will evolve around, I was placed at Blue Lick Elementary School (right next to Knight Middle School). Blue Lick Elementary School collaborates with Knight Middle School, to ease the transition to 6th grade. This school is located in Heritage Creek, which is also close to my first placement, Fairdale High School. The population in this neighborhood is low-income. There are 480 students and the student teacher ratio is 16:1. Blue Lick Elementary School is a public co-ed school and accepts grades pre-kindergarten to 5th grade. At Blue Lick Elementary School, 66% of the students are white. The next majority of the students are black, which is 25% on a pie chart. Only 2% of

1. How may a student's social class origin and related factors impact on her/his learning outcomes and how can teachers intervene to effectively address any resulting disadvantages and injustices for students?

Heat is a form of energy that is transferred between two substances at different temperatures. The flow of the energy is from the object of higher temperature to the object of lower temperature. The heat is measured in units of energy, usually calories or joules. Temperature on the other hand, is how cold or hot an object is. The temperature is the average kinetic energy per molecule of a substance. This is measured in degrees on the Celsius or Fahrenheit or in Kelvins.

Not comfortable 1 5.9 - - - - - - - - - - 2 11.8 - 2 11.8 3 17.7 4 23.5 1 5.9 Table 6: Subjective measurement of thermal preference MAY’13 JUN’13 JUL’13 AUG’13 SEPT’13 OCT’13 NOV’13 DEC’13 JAN’14 FEB’14 MAR’14 APR’14 N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % Much warmer - - - - - - 15 88.2 - - - - 2 11.8 5 29.4 4 23.5 - - - - - - Warmer 15 88.2 14 82.3 15 88.2 1 5.9 13 76.5 14 82.3 8 47.1 8 47.1 7 41.2 - - 3 17.7 4 23.5 Slight Warmer 2 11.8 3 17.7 2 11.8 1 5.9 4 23.5 3 17.7 5 29.4 3 17.7 3 17.7 6 35.3 2 11.8 2 11.8