My students need 6 snap electronic kits, in order to learn about electronics. Learn by doing. Promoting stem, science, engineering art. Empowering Students Through Art!
$426 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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 created my own class approved for a-g "d" credit for lab science called: "Applied Environmental Science." This class is a hands on approach to prepare students for the Green Job workforce of the future. We are part of career tech ed (cte) and created our own "GREEN" pathway for high school.
Our High School is located just outside of Los Angeles City.
Our students are 97% hispanic in a title 1 school. 90% of our students receive free or reduced lunch. Our students come from a low socioeconomic society where many of them will be the first one in their family to ever go to college. Many have immigrated to the USA from Mexico. We have one of the highest student pregnancy rates in the USA. Our students are hard workers, eager to please, but not very ambitious. We have to give them opportunities and encourage and guide them into trying to reach their potentials to go to college. Many are afraid to leave Los Angeles and their families to go away for college. Our school is an Bell award winning AVID school in which students and their families are supported throughout high school to get into college. Those students who make it through the program and graduate college come back to visit and help our school. In fact many students have come back as teachers, to give back!
My Project
Many of our students are afraid of math and science. They give up very easily. They do not like to read the text book, and have difficulty understanding the text. They do love to work with their hands and are very curious. I want to encourage our students, to become engineers interested in STEM. These electronics kits are just the items our students need to practice Learning by doing, a hands on approach. They will be encouraged, excited and hopefully inspired to go to college to become an engineer. Students will be completing up to 100 experiments with these kits, in order to learn electronics. They will see their success as the light turns on, sounds beep or things move. This is the kind of hands on learning they love. If they are successful in these little experiments, it will inspire them to learn more and maybe become an engineer. They will be able to do basic electronic circuitry, repair and trouble shooting. They will learn how our latest electronic devices work.
I have been teaching at this high school for over 16 years, and the most money I ever received from the principal for my classroom was $200.
I have spent over $500 of my own money every year for supplies and educational materials for my classroom. Almost nothing reaches the classroom level. It is not fair! The students deserve better. Educational money needs to go to the classroom, to the students, not to the administrators! This may be the thing that inspires these students to go to college
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