Our classroom is located at an elementary school in Lewistown, Montana. We are a Title I school with 45% of our student population qualifying for free /reduced lunch. This is the first year our district has offered a KinderStep Program. Due to its overwhelming success, this program will be permanently offered to help better prepare select students for Kindergarten in our district. As this was the first year of the pilot program, only $200 was allocated for our class to purchase discretionary supplies for the year. Most of the supplies, equipment, furniture, books, games, etc. in the classroom belong to me personally. In order to better accommodate learning for my current class and future classes (up to 12-15 students annually), I am respectfully asking for you help to purchase a STEM Maker Station!
Our KinderSteps class consists of younger kindergarten age eligible students.
These students have struggled with the lack of educational opportunities and need additional help with social-emotional readiness for kindergarten. The goal of KinderStep is to give these students foundational skills in social, emotional and academic areas to be successful in school. Students in the KinderSteps class move into a regular kindergarten classroom the following year.
My Project
To "make” is a synonym for: create, cause, assemble, manufacture, achieve, invent, produce, craft, build, construct, or generate. In a STEM Maker Station this is exactly what happens. It is an environment where one is only limited by one’s own imagination. A place combining aspects of STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math with creativity and wonder.
A STEM Maker Station will be a perfect catalyst for developing problem solving skills and, most importantly, a love for learning!
The station will be used to create individual inventions, as well as group inventions allowing students to also practice social skills (sharing, taking turns, working together). The STEM Maker Station will be filled with a variety of recycled or natural materials, such as toilet paper rolls, boxes, yarn, feathers, pine cones, craft sticks, tape, etc. Students will be asked to develop a plan, research, create in the STEM Maker Station using easy to access materials, and finally present their creation to their peers.
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