My students need a place to organize their design supplies using wide magazine files and Expo markers and writing sleeves to actively solve real-world problems within their learning community.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Wilson's classroom raised $601
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My Students
As a teacher, I am lucky to serve special needs to gifted fifth grade students in Arizona. We are a Title I community, serving students who are financially struggling, but also students whose parents see our school as a real-world learning environment. The community is as diverse as the needs of our world today.
Our students engage in multidisciplinary projects in teams to collect data, synthesize, design, build and rebuild, all while learning the key learning standards for 5th grade.
I work on a team of three to develop lessons and facilitate learning for students in our STEAM Design Academy. We are teaching our students to be college and career ready, starting at preschool. We're not training them for 6th grade. We're training them for life as scholars and future professionals. We even call them scholars and professionals. The more you hear it, the more you believe it. The more you believe it, the more you believe in yourself and act the part. Passion leads to success.
My Project
With no space to really call their "own" in a classroom, students struggle to find order for their personal design supplies, design notebooks and learning, and personal materials. This results in cluttered spaces that are meant to be used for our Design Academy. We are often clearing off desks to lay down poster papers and blueprints for projects and this results in a cluttered floor space and lost of misplaced items that students truly value.
The solution I've developed and hope to implement with the help of your generous funds is to offer each student (on our fantastic counter space) a wide and sturdy plastic magazine file to house all their design supplies in a safe and tidy spot.
In addition, students regularly use Expo Markers and we're running out of our supply. We use these for everything as we create solutions and solve real-world problems collaboratively in groups. They've been requesting an option to incorporate painting into our Design Academy, so I included those as well. Students love adding the "A" in STEAM whenever possible, and I want them to know that I value their interests enough to design projects that excite them to strive for more and press their learning to the max.
More than a third 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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