Help me give my students a Base Coding Kit, piano, car, rocket, and speaker to build STEM interest and get my students, especially my girls, to learn to code.
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 fifth grade students are working diligently to increase their twenty-first century skills. They are highly motivated students in need of higher level thinking opportunities. I am interested in supporting my students to achieve their dreams.
My students are deserving of the best the world can offer because they are our future!
They are a fun-loving, creative and dedicated group of learners coming from primarily Latino families living in suburban California. Our school has about one thousand students in a PreK-5 environment where free or reduced-price lunch is the standard. We are co-located with a Magnet school on our campus.
My Project
This Base Coding Kit along with the piano, speaker, car, and rocket kits can provide non-threatening experiences in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) that can build creativity, self-esteem, collaboration, and enhance computer coding skills. These materials will also provide motivation to write creative, collaborative stories that include all of the objects constructed. This will boost their writing skills in a fun way.
Girls need to be motivated to pursue STEM careers because they too are capable of doing great things!
So often my girls lose interest in coding because they think it is for geeks or it is only for boys. Since I have already incorporated women in science studies and beginning computer coding, these materials can help my students appreciate the contributions have women.
The hands-on aspect of these materials allows all my students to interact with the circuit boards and develop their engineering and coding skills. The addition of these electronic projects can further my STEM instruction and build on the knowledge students have about 'failing forward' and never giving up.
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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