My students need 2 K'NEX Education Real Bridge Building Kits to apply their physical science concepts of balance and forces.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Bates's classroom raised $358
This project is fully funded
My Students
"Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'" ~Martin Rees
At our STEM academy, our focus on Earth, Physical, and Life Science project-based learning requires a plethora of resources for engineering.
My students love inquiry projects!
Unfortunately, we are only in our 2nd year as a STEM Academy, and still have not built up our resources and materials for projects and experiments. Our curriculum focus is on Earth, Physical, and Life Science project-based learning. Our Physical Science unit focuses on balance and forces; however, we are lacking materials to provide children with the experience of building bridges. Currently, the children use paper and tape for construction, and find the materials are not stable enough to carry any weight for design testing.
My Project
Donations to this project will allow my students to experience, through hands-on learning, the engineering principles that need to be applied to allow bridges to support the loads they must carry. The K'NEX sets will provide them the opportunity to build up to fourteen 5-6 ft long K'NEX bridge models!
My students will be able to study the history, function, structural design, geometry and strength of bridges.
They will also be able to build replicas of real-world bridges including Golden Gate (suspension), Forth Rail Bridge (cantilever) and Sydney Harbor Bridge (arch).
Half of students from low‑income households
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