My students need a toaster oven to reuse broken crayons and other items such as choppers and cutting boards to help us examine them.
$464 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! 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 are always excited when they enter the classroom, especially on lab days. They enjoy hands-on activities, working in small groups and being able to explore with their peers. My goal is to provide my students with an engaging, fun and safe learning environment. My school is located in a low socio-economic neighborhood where 95% of the students receive free or reduced-price lunch. Most of my students are faced with many challenges in the classroom and at home.
My Project
My students loved STEM time and looked forward to it weekly. This year with schedule changes there is NO built in time. I want to expand the way they've been used to having STEM time with just prompts and supplies. This year I would like to give them some more meaningful, real world experiences hand in hand with art creating STEAM.
I need to show my students that recycling and reusing everyday objects like crayons can be fun, exciting, and a "work of art".
My students will be researching how crayons are made, and then we will be remaking our own out of all the broken ones found throughout our school. Students will work in small groups to use the chopper to break the crayons into smaller pieces on the flexible cutting boards. The wax paper will be used to see how various colors mix with teacher assistance (of course) and an iron.
Students will also be able to make their own crayons by filling the molds, and I will help with the baking using the toaster oven, trays and oven mitts.
Lastly I want my students to create a beautiful work of art on a canvas that they can give to their families for Christmas. They will continue recycling the broken pieces of crayons by creating a holiday themed Pointillism piece using the tealight candles to heat the end of the crayons.
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