Not Cookie-Cutter Science: Student Designed Circuits!
My students need a vinyl cutter starter kit, replacement mat, blade, dust cover, and copper tape for designing and printing circuits they've designed.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Wolf's classroom raised $671
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
Have you ever had a lightbulb turn on? Not the metaphorical kind, but a real one that you connected to a circuit you designed! My bet is that when students can design and light up their own circuits that all kinds of lights will turn on for them!
My students come from five continents, speak a dozen languages, and are different from one another in countless ways.
What unites them is that they have all come to the United States seeking a better life, a great education, and very importantly to learn English. They all carry the experiences of life and their former education with them. At our school we want to empower them with the words to speak with one another about their past, but also give them the experiences and language to do great things together. From our school, they graduate to public and private college, lucrative careers here or back in their native country, and some even serve in the military. They learn with one another and become bilingual and sometimes trilingual citizens of the world.
My Project
Giving them hands-on problems like building their own circuits has such potential for jumpstarting their creativity and giving them a forum for working with others. Planning and making something light up will give them a tangible problem they have to solve together. During the process of connecting positive to negative and serial to parallel, they will have a reason to communicate with people who may not speak their native language. After doing a basic circuit, the open-ended nature of the problem will allow them to unleash their inner maker. I can't wait to see the designs they come up with. The vinyl cutter starter kit, replacement mat, blade, dust cover, and other tools I am requesting are perfect for this activity. Using simple graphics software and a computer, the vinyl cutter can reproduce any circuit design we can imagine and reproduce it as many times as we want. The copper tape is easy to cut and tear with scissors or even fingers, so everyone can be working on their designs even if they are waiting for the printer.
My hope is that this project will make science come alive.
It will give my students an outlet for their creativity while they learn how electronics work, integrating Arts and STEM to make STEAM. These new makers will have an awesome product they are proud of that they can present to the school, their families, and the community. I also hope they will see that science is for everyone! All it takes is some materials, some imagination, their own two hands, and a donor like you.
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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