My students are full of energy, excited to learn, and naturally inquisitive. They want to be engaged in the lessons, instead of being passive learners.
With STEAM/STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) and Problem/Project-Based Learning (PBL) students are engaged and solving both real-life and fictional problems.
Students want to know what they do will matter, and they are our future problem solvers.
My school has one thousand diverse students coming from different socioeconomic statuses, including many students who are homeless or living in poverty.
My Project
Do you remember learning about circuits in school? If you were like me, it was connecting a battery, wire, and a light bulb. With littleBits, students learn about electronics by inventing their own projects through inquiry. As the students start with littleBits, they will have different challenges to complete such as making it move and light, creating an invention for a life hack, a superhero invention, etc.
littleBits will empower my students to engineer inventions by using Avengers, Star Wars, and NASA space kits.
While creating their inventions, the students with learn about circuits, magnets, electricity, and coding (computer science). Students will learn to collaborate, a 21st century real-world skill, in this student-centered, interest-driven, and curiosity-focused learning project, and will be excited by using the design process as a framework for creating their new inventions.
More than half of 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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