Bridging The Gap- A STEM Project For Special Students
My students need STEM kits, discovery tubes, math manipulatives, and pattern design boards in order to experience science and math in a way that is meaningful to them.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Andrea's classroom raised $522
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.
My Students
My class is made up of six students with severe autism in a high poverty, low-income, inner city school. My students attend one of New York City's more restrictive learning environments in a self-contained classroom in District 75, located in East Harlem. The class is designated as a 6:1:1 class, and they are third to fifth graders, but function at a pre-school academic level. They have a wide range of academic, social, and communication needs, but they also have a wide range of strengths in each of these areas. This class wants to learn. They are interested in experiencing the world.
Each of my students have wonderfully unique personalities that come together to create a beautiful classroom culture.
This is a class is full of intelligent, curious, energetic, and exceptional students. Despite their challenges, they are excited to learn and experience learning in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math.
My Project
My students need science and math in their day! These items will provide for my current six students with autism, plus all of the students who will come in the future. A create-a-chain reaction STEM kit, survive the quake engineering kit, and a mechanical engineering kit will give students the hands-on exposure they need to understand these challenging concepts. Shapes, patterns, and geo-boards will work on the visual performance skills my students need to master in order to advance to other areas of mathematics. Motion tubes, and the magnetic wonder window will help open my students' eyes to physics. Counting cubes and math games will help my students to enjoy their learning.
They deserve to be exposed to science, technology, engineering, and math.
We need a STEM center. This center will function as part of their daily academic during a teaching rotation. Students will be working on communication skills, sensory regulation, fine motor skills, as well as the traditional learning that takes place through a STEM center. These magnificent children learn in a unique way and they need time to experience things in a way that is meaningful to them. They are capable of great things and there is no doubt in my mind that they would benefit from more science and math.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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