My students need STEAM materials that will integrate science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, including engineering and building materials, hands-on math games, dough to create art with, and science books and storage.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My students are amazingly energetic and eager to learn, but they are a diverse group, with different academic and social/emotional needs. Many are English Language Learners, with little to no exposure to the English language outside of school. They crave learning opportunities that reflect their diversity and teach them the academic and social-emotional skills they so desperately need, in authentic and engaging ways.
In my classroom, there are 22 unique, creative, diverse, and brilliant students, each bubbling with potential.
However, there are many barriers that get in the way of them achieving what they are capable of doing. My school is a Minnesota focus school, meaning it is in the lowest ten percent of schools that receive Title I dollars in our state.
Many students are English Language Learners with little to no exposure to the English language outside of school. Over 90% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. The student body is very diverse, including African American, Latino, Somali, Asian, Native American, and white students. Our school has a high population of homeless and transient students, and many students have experienced great deals of trauma in their young lives.
My Project
These science, technology, engineering, art, and math materials will connect STEAM and the Minnesota Common Core English language arts, math, and science standards, while helping students use their creativity to build their critical thinking, collaboration, and comprehension skills. They will be able to plan and create using the building materials, learning about engineering and design along the way. They will be able to create hands-on art projects with the dough. They will be able to create and explore with the hands-on math materials and organize their new science library, in the cart and bins, as well as add many new science non-fiction readers to their collection, that are leveled, so all students can find a just right book.
This project will allow students to truly practice the academic standards they are learning, in a practical, hands-on way, while also building creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills.
Students' lives will change for the better, because this project will give students the opportunity to be creative with their building, engineering, and art creations, to collaborate with other students in hands-on projects, and to ultimately build skills to expand their critical thinking skills, which are skill sets that will help them in their futures.
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