Building up STEAM: Bringing Interactive Art into the Science Lab
My students need art supplies to access science in a hands on way. They will use markers, clay, colored pencils and poster boards to create interactive, hands on science projects.
$367 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 work in a Title I High School. Most of our students (72%) are English Language Learners (ELL), with languages other than English as their first language. Many students are new to this country, some have been displaced by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and many have moved to the United States within the last 2 or three years from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Columbia and other Spanish speaking countries. Our wonderful students have a real thirst to learn, which is so very refreshing. We have great parental support in the area of academics, but many of our parents struggle financially. We are called a Comprehensive High School which includes a Cosmetology program, Auto Mechanic program, and a Culinary program in addition to the traditional academic programs.
My Project
These art supplies will allow my students the opportunity to explore and create interactive and hands on science projects in our Science Lab. They will create interactive posters, modeling clay DNA strands, paper representations of cells, a 3D periodic table and much more. For so many of my students access to art supplies is limited due to economics. Their financial/economic situations make it almost impossible for them to bring their own supplies. By having supplies like markers, paper, and edging scissors in the classroom it evens the playing field and everyone has the same opportunities.
Art is the universal language that makes science accessible to all my students no matter their background or economic situation.
Art is a way to engage students who might not ordinarily be engaged and allow students to express what they have learned through a non traditional approach instead of the traditional paper and pencil type assessment.
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