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Our Junior High School has recently become STEM certified. The district goal is that we will have all schools in the district become certified and go one-to-one with laptops in the next couple years. I am requesting two Makey Makey circuit kits and six littleBits KORG synth kits to further align our music K-12 curriculum with the new STEM/STEAM standards. The music program already possesses four Makey Makey kits. My hope is that with the additional two Makey Makey kits and the six littleBits kits, we will have enough resources for all students to be actively engaged within the classroom at once. With these new resources provided by your donations, students will be able to explore engineering and the creative process through interactive music and science activities. With Makey Makey kits students can craft and code their own controllers with everyday objects such as playdough, fruit, and water and even build their own sensors using supplies such as tin foil, pennies, and paperclips. littleBits KORG synth kits allows students to create a traditional analog synthesizer to create complex sounds and innovative music of their own. The kits can connect directly to a computer, speaker, and headphones and can be connected to the littleBits modular system for infinite audio, visual, and sensory experiences. Students can even make their own instruments. These kits can be used in such a variety of ways. A few examples could include adding sound effects to Foley artistry activities to movies, videogames, and commercials in fourth grade, accompaniment to songwriting activities in the sixth grade curriculum, to exploring sound and music in the third grade classroom. There are so many ways these resources can be used within the K-12 curriculum school wide! I am excited at the possibilities this could create for my students.

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Our Junior High School has recently become STEM certified. The district goal is that we will have all schools in the district become certified and go one-to-one with laptops in the next couple years. I am requesting two Makey Makey circuit kits and six littleBits KORG synth kits to further align our music K-12 curriculum with the new STEM/STEAM standards. The music program already possesses four Makey Makey kits. My hope is that with the additional two Makey Makey kits and the six littleBits kits, we will have enough resources for all students to be actively engaged within the classroom at once. With these new resources provided by your donations, students will be able to explore engineering and the creative process through interactive music and science activities. With Makey Makey kits students can craft and code their own controllers with everyday objects such as playdough, fruit, and water and even build their own sensors using supplies such as tin foil, pennies, and paperclips. littleBits KORG synth kits allows students to create a traditional analog synthesizer to create complex sounds and innovative music of their own. The kits can connect directly to a computer, speaker, and headphones and can be connected to the littleBits modular system for infinite audio, visual, and sensory experiences. Students can even make their own instruments. These kits can be used in such a variety of ways. A few examples could include adding sound effects to Foley artistry activities to movies, videogames, and commercials in fourth grade, accompaniment to songwriting activities in the sixth grade curriculum, to exploring sound and music in the third grade classroom. There are so many ways these resources can be used within the K-12 curriculum school wide! I am excited at the possibilities this could create for my students.

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