My students need simple machines in order to understand what and how simple machines work. If you can use it hands-on, you can remember it for life!
$407 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.
Screws, wheels and axles, pulleys, have you ever wondered how they really work? Think about how it feels to live in a rural community and not know what simple machines really are unless you use them in a hands-on format. Hands-on science is where it is at! We need hands-on tools!!!!
Waking up in the morning and your only care in the world is that your bus is on time.
In this rural community of title one students, the children are still children and deserve good teachers and lessons just like all other children. Many students are performing below grade level in reading and mathematics and drastically need hands-on lessons where they learn how to record basic climate using weather tools. These children are our future, let's put tools in their hands so they can make the world a better place. We have a truly multicultural classroom. Hispanic, African Americans, Caucasians and even a Hawaiian student ranging in ages from 11-13. They are incredible!! Please see the greatness I see in the children that other people don't notice at times.
My Project
How exciting would it be to use a pulley and take different types of pulleys to move items around the room? How would you like it to test different items using ramps and levers? Or maybe even build your own bridge?
My students will learn about all 5 or 6 simple machines. There is a debate over whether a screw is a simple machine or just an inclined plane around a rod, but debate aside my students would truly learn about how simple machines are similar and different with the simple machines tool kit. Then they will be able to use simple machines and maybe even design better complex machines in the future!!!
This is important to me since I believe that we don't truly develop the art of inquiry and scientific development in students.
This teaches students to think critically and prove their arguments based on evidence. I wish I had had a teacher like this when I was a kid.
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