Einstein: "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." My students need KEVA wooden planks to expand their thinking & creativity.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. T.'s classroom raised $543
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
The best learning happens when students are engaged in something challenging and fun. Creating three dimensional structures with KEVA maple planks to solve design problems presents the kind of challenge that supports students' intellectual growth and achievement.
Our Pre-K to 4th grade elementary school is located in an ethnically diverse, low income, inner city neighborhood in the Northeast.
Students here are accustomed to having less, and doing without. Many of our students are very talented, but families can't afford private art lessons and art-camp in the summer. An art education program that integrates math, science, and language arts with quality art materials and tools will give these children an educational experience that can change their lives, and their outlook on life!
My Project
"Empowering Students through Art" – By building imaginative structures with KEVA planks, students will learn about geometric shapes and forms, leverage, balance, symmetry and other math concepts in a fun, creative, hands-on way. Working alone and in teams of two or more, students will use the math skills of counting, measuring, adding, subtracting and predicting to create original structures that solve design problems. Examples: “How many different ways can you make a cube? How many different ways can you make a pyramid? Create a 3D design using patterns. Create a structure that will deliver a ping-pong ball into a container 12 inches away from the drop point.” When students answer design problems like these they also learn that there are many ways to see, interpret and solve a problem. Projects will be photographed and shared with other classes.
"Low-income students who had arts-rich experiences in high schools were more than three times as likely to earn a B.A.
as low-income students without those experiences....low-income high school students who earned few or no arts credits were five times more likely not to graduate from high school than low-income students who earned many arts credits." Prepared Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Report, "Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 2009-10"
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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