Living in an extremely rural area, our students are very family-oriented. Many of our students have parents who are farmers or coal miners. Although families are involved in the education of our students, most students lack financial support. In fact, our entire school district qualified for the free lunch program this school year.
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My Project
My students LOVE to express their creative side. We do all sorts of fun projects in our tech classes. We recently received a Cricut Joy vinyl cutting machine. The Design Space app that works with the Cricut machine allows the students to design and layer images using an iPad. This allows me to work one on one with each student. They learn a lot through trial and error as well. For example, they must mirror an image of using heat transfer materials. The students have all sorts of ideas for creating shirt designs. They have also expressed interest in creating designs for their face masks they wear daily. We have used the only iron on vinyl we have and it gets very expensive if I replace it all out of pocket. With no school budget for these materials, I'm trying different avenues to get these materials.
Help my students express their creativity through design!
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