Abstract and Paper

Abstract

Equal education is vital to ensure proper youths' development and future educational success. Therefore, it's important that all students have equal opportunities to allow students the same chance to reach their full potential. As defined by scholarly studies, science, within the fifth grade, is a vital topic that ensures students develop critical problem solving, thinking, and understanding. Through all of these, the emphasize of equal opportunities within science is essential so all students develop these necessary skills, regardless of their background, before they make the transition to middle school. Even more, academic research have represented that hands on learning is a proficient teaching method that has been effective in teaching elementary age student science therefore its important that all teachers have the resources and funding to be able to integrated this within the classroom. My research worked to highlight this important topic and research if income of the surrounding area impacted access that teachers had to integrate hands on learning and whether this impacts student proficiency. After conducting a teacher survey that provided necessary data for my research, it provided evidence to support that these variables do have an effect on one another on a large scale, but on a smaller scale, more socioeconomic factors impacts students more. Overall, education isn't just black and white rather a more complex topic that reveals the many factors that play a large role in student success. Therefore,  this research provided evidence that there are gaps in the funding throughout the state due to difference in income however this alone wasn't the only impactor to student success. More structural components and socioeconomic factors play a larger role therefore need to be address so effective teaching method like hands on learnign can be properly implement within the classroom and equal access to this method is vital.