My students need 15 littleBits electronics kits to enhance our STEM learning. littleBits are reusable modular tools that encourage exploration, tinkering, and innovation.
My goal is to nurture a love of learning in each student. Learning is fun. The process of uncovering and exploring our world is fascinating. I hope to ignite a passion for learning in each student that will last far beyond their time in our classroom.
My students love science.
They thrive when they are encouraged to roll up their sleeves and dive into collaborative hands-on learning. If you were to walk into our classroom you would see a comfortable and safe place where students can explore what we are learning in an interactive way. We have 80 students in 6th grade this year. They are hard working, energetic, optimistic, and fun loving kids.
Together this year we have:
-Modeled the parts of an atom by running around the playground with balloons.
-Explored chemical reactions by creating rockets, hot and cold packs, and a fireball or two!
-Studied how waves work and examined their impacts on our day-to-day life.
-Investigated 3D printing technology.
-Designed inventions and innovations that were printed with our 3D printer.
-Studied the engineering design process.
In addition to our classroom, these tools would be used at an after school science club at our school for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.
My Project
My students need 15 littleBits electronics kits to enhance our STEM learning. littleBits are reusable modular tools that encourage exploration, tinkering, and innovation. Every kid is a maker at heart. These tools will be put in their hands on Day One to create. To me, littleBits are a blank canvas, a bucket of Legos, or slab of clay. Unlimited creative potential, just waiting for my students to shape and mold into the next great invention. I am excited to get these tools in the hands of my students because of the open-ended nature of littleBits.
As my students build prototypes of their creations, they will be engaged in the engineering design process. They will go through a cycle of asking clarifying questions, imagining solutions, planning out ideas, creating prototypes, and reflecting on how to make improvements. They will explore the basics of electrical engineering, product design, and computer programming. Not to mention we will have blast along the way.
By donating to provide my class with this set of littleBits blocks you will be equipping them with the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) tools to design, create, and build the next great invention of the future.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
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