My students are a very diverse group of kids! We live in the Poconos. Some of the students come from families that have lived here for generations, while others have moved here from cities in New York and New Jersey.
This mix of rural and urban students allows us to learn from each other in many ways!
City kids learn to appreciate a slower pace while rural kids learn about people they typically wouldn't be exposed to in a small community.
My Project
My students and I have embarked on a new journey this year, with the creation of our Fab Lab. The Fab Lab is a maker space that kids can use to create, invent, and accomplish challenges. This space is definitively not used for step by step, cookie cutter projects.
Kids are encouraged to learn through play and experimentation in the Fab Lab.
Our current supplies are limited to things we have had donated, such as K'nex and Legos. While these are great for making things like bridges and catapults, we don't have any supplies that allow kids to begin to design robotics or electronic inventions. The Makey Makey would be used to introduce kids to simple circuits that can be used to power and control games and lights, or to program using Scratch (a very user-friendly coding platform). Makey makey allows kids to use everyday items such as ketchup or bananas to control the things they design, which makes this both fun and educational at the same time!
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