With the engineering industry surrounding the district, the students need to be prepared for a technical future.
Although our school is located in the center of the Silicon Valley, 56% of our students come from low-income families with 22% English Language learners.
Only 44% of the parents have had some college or graduated from college.
These students need outlets for their academic energy beyond the traditional R's of education ('Riting, Reading, and 'Rithmetic). Their skills in critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity need to be developed.
My Project
Middle school students have busy bodies and need active projects to engage in. When students are given open ended design challenges, organized chaos arises, but productive learning results. In order to balance the pandemonium of consumable supplies and foster forward creative thinking, the students need materials readily accessible and tools for its intended purposes. Students often use classroom scissors to cut or poke holes in thick cardboard whereas cardboard scissors or cutters and screwdrivers would be safer and more appropriate. Tape of all sorts have been used to secure materials together instead of a hammer or nail, or cutting slits in cardboard to form joints. In order to measure or calculate the length of larger projects, students have laid multiple meter sticks side by side instead of using a tape measure. The clear storage bins would allow all students to easily see the materials available so that they all can use them and return them to their proper locations.
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