My students need one classroom set of the K'nex Introduction to Structures, Bridges Set and three sets of the K'nex Real Bridge Building Sets.
$947 goal
This project expired on October 5, 2009.
This project expired on October 5, 2009.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
I teach in an inner city, low-income, Title 1 School. I teach the gifted and talented students in the school. My students love to engage in real-world learning and love hands-on activities that teach them. They love to be engaged and work to solve problems.
My students come from very diverse backgrounds, most come from families that are in the low socio-economic level and are living below the poverty level. Many of them come from one parent homes or stay here after school because a parent is not home after school is out.
My students are the highest ranked students academically in the school, yet I think many of them have a hard time continuing to excel due to peer pressures and home situations. I hope that I can engage them in some learning experiences that made lead them to a desire to achieve and to perhaps guide them in a direction of a future career possibility. We do not receive very much in the way of school funds due to the fact that this is a part-time program in the school.
We need one classroom set of the K'nex Introduction to Structures, Bridges Set and three sets of the K'nex Real Bridge Building Sets. I would love to teach my students about structures and specifically, about bridges. Students will learn the many different types of structures and bridges and why they may or may not be used. They will use critical thinking to determine the best bridge to use in various situations.
I have requested some K'nex building sets because they seem to be the best hands-on bridge building sets out there. We've used toothpicks and putty or toothpicks and marshmallows, but they just don't seem to hold up the way plastic can!
You will make my structure unit that includes building bridges the best unit ever by helping us get these great k'nex building sets. The students will love the building experience and they will be learning at the same time that they are having fun and building. This will be an invaluable experience for them! Who knows that perhaps one or two of them may even end up as an architect or in the building field one day because they had such a fun and educating building experience!!!
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