Help me give my students the snake cubes they want to express their creativity.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Leon-Rodriguez's classroom raised $299
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
My students generally come from low-income families that live around the school neighborhood located in City Heights, San Diego. Most of my students are African Americans and Latinos, followed by students from the Pacific Islands or Asian backgrounds. Our school is a unique place. The school has a great percentage of students with special needs. Therefore, our school needs to be equipped with technological devices, lab tools and materials, and other resources that would guarantee that all students have what they need to learn and succeed adequately.
We need your contribution in order to provide our students with Rubik snake cubes that will stimulate their creativity as they put into practice their knowledge of geometry, measurement and spatial analysis.
Students will create different representations of animals, flowers, houses, numbers, and much more. They will be challenged into combining snake cubes with the purpose of creating even more complex structures. The snake cube activities will be part of our STEM lessons, which reinforce necessary skills for careers in science and engineer.
My Project
Students will use the snake cubes they have requested in order to create representations of animals, flowers, numbers, and other achievable patterns. It is possible to create 28 patterns out of a 24 piece snake cube. However, I will suggest my students to combine at least two 24 snake cubes and create more complex patterns.
Students will display the complex patterns of their new creations as they combine snake cubes strands, and will explain the procedure, logic, and spatial analysis that led them to achieve their goals.
This STEM activity will challenge the students' mathematical and logical skills, and will further prepare them for the future when it comes to analyzing 3-D structures.
Nearly all 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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