My students need tools to help them create items from cardboard and other recycled materials.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Youel's classroom raised $340
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My Students
Children are so versed in technology, they are starting to lose basic skills, such as creating, making, tinkering, and working with their hands!
In our Library Media Center, we have created a Makerspace to address this issue.
Our students come from all social classes, but one thing is the same - they all have access to technology in our schools. However, we are seeing more and more students lacking skills in hand-eye coordination, simple tasks such as putting things together and taking them apart, taking objects and creating new things with them. While technology is a wonderful thing and prepares students for the future, they also need these basic life skills as well.
My Project
Our Makerspace is considered "low tech," because while we are offering some technology with tablets and the few computers we have, we want students to focus on skills that emphasize hand-eye coordination, learning how to reuse or fix items that are broken, exploring how things work by taking them apart, building new things from parts, as well as other different skills that are no longer taught in school.
With the Makedo kits, we will be participating in the Global Cardboard Challenge, where students will use recycled materials, like cardboard, and create something out of it - a rocket ship, a house, new inventions - their imaginations are the only limit! With the tools that Makedo offers, students will be able to use specially made tools to keep these items together, such as screws, saws and scissors created to cut cardboard, and other tools.
All these items are also reusable! Not only will they help us with the challenge, we'll be able to use them again and again, year after year.
Please help us reach our goal and create students who are not only technologically versed, but also can use their imaginations to build, dream, rebuild, fix, tinker, explore, discover, and help the world around them.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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