Help Our Students Turn Their Dreams into a 3-D Reality...
Help me give my students an opportunity to explore their creativity with a 3D printer so they can build models for Mathematics, Business and Robotics Engineering.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. White's classroom raised $612
This project is fully funded
My Students
I teach at a Title I school where most of the students are eligible for free lunch. Since moving to distance learning, my students have a harder time staying engaged without the physical presence of their peers and instructor. Many of our children depend on our school for their first meal of the day and their lives have been uniquely disrupted due to the shifts created by the coronavirus pandemic. As the 3rd grade multiple subject teacher, robotics coach, and robotic engineering curriculum designer, I have the opportunity to not only work with the diversity in my class but I am able to work with or design lesson plans for more than 100 students.
Therefore, I've seen first hand how excited these students get about technology and the ways they leverage technology to tell stories, do math, and present social studies concepts they've learned all while managing the demands of distant learning in a constantly changing environment.
My Project
Each year we celebrate a Mathematical holiday called Pi Day. it takes place on March 14th. Students learn about the number Pi and its uses. The students with the best presentation or who can recite the most digits of pi get to throw an actual pie in my (the teacher's face)
In previous years, students could only create 2-D shapes.
This 3-D printer will allow students to create spherical and circular shapes on Pi Day (March 14th). Using the programs necessary to print these objects will deepen their understanding of geometry. Without the printer, the project is reduced to a math exercise. Students will have to plot the area and perimeter of 3-D shapes to program the printer. This will bring Art, Science, Math and Technology, and Engineering together to create an authentic STEAM experience.
We also do a unit in 4th grade in which students create a business, and present their products, advertisement, and plans to local business owners. Students will be able to use the printer to make their products and in some cases models of their products. The pi- day programming will build-up to this as the knowledge of geometry needed to create the shapes for pi- day serves as a stepping stone to create more sophisticated objects for our business unit.
More than three‑quarters 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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