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By providing clear places for charging and cleanup, students are learning responsibility, accountability, and pride in their learning environment. These skills extend far beyond the classroom, preparing them for future projects, collaboration, and success. Thank you for giving our students the tools to create, care for their materials, and thrive in a well-organized, inspiring space.","fullyFundedDate":1757864718523,"projectUrl":"project/charged-up-and-ready-to-create/9703833/","projectTitle":"Charged Up and Ready to Create","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Giliberto","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2204143_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464295520333","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-giliberto"},{"teacherId":2204143,"projectId":9718898,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom with the 3D printer, filament, and filament dryer! Your generosity is already making a huge difference. My students have eagerly begun exploring this new technology and have created some fantastic items on their own. We have also started integrating 3D printing into our existing projects. For example, students who were originally designing billboard displays using Adobe Photoshop are now bringing their ideas to life by designing and 3D printing physical billboards. Seeing their digital artwork transform into tangible objects has been incredibly exciting for them and has sparked even more creativity and curiosity in the classroom.\r\n\r\nYour support is helping my students develop skills that go beyond art and design. Through 3D printing, they are learning problem-solving, patience, persistence, and the satisfaction of seeing a project through from concept to completion. Many of these students have limited access to technology at home, so the chance to experiment with professional tools in a supportive environment is truly transformative. Thanks to you, they are building confidence, creativity, and skills that will serve them in future careers in design, engineering, and technology. We are deeply grateful for your generosity and the opportunities it has opened for our students.","fullyFundedDate":1758315307224,"projectUrl":"project/design-print-create-student-designs-i/9718898/","projectTitle":"Design, Print, Create: Student Designs in 3D","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Giliberto","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2204143_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464295520333","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-giliberto"},{"teacherId":10242962,"projectId":9690547,"letterContent":"The new thermometers you provided for our students have been an exciting addition to our Chemistry classroom, and my students just finished using them for the first time to explore phase changes and heating curves. This hands-on experiment allowed students to track temperature changes over time as ice melted and water boiled, helping them better understand the concepts of melting point, boiling point, and plateaus during phase transitions. \r\n\r\nThe accuracy and reliability of the new thermometers made the data collection more precise. We have never seen such clear and consistent data! One memorable moment was seeing students huddled around their lab setups, eagerly waiting for the temperature to begin rising as their last ice cube reached its melting point. \r\n\r\nWhen the students first saw the new materials, they were genuinely grateful, and many took pride in using them carefully and correctly. It was clear they felt a sense of ownership and responsibility because these tools had been donated specifically for their learning. Now that they've mastered the use of these thermometers, the next step is to improve efficiency in the lab with updated hot plates, which will allow us to finish experiments in less time, allowing more time for analysis and discussion. With better equipment thanks to generous donors like you, students can continue building their lab skills and applying scientific concepts in meaningful ways.","fullyFundedDate":1758394788197,"projectUrl":"project/to-data-collection-and-beyond/9690547/","projectTitle":"To Data Collection and Beyond!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. S","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10242962"},{"teacherId":8499409,"projectId":8729409,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to my classroom. My students have benefited so much from the human anatomy models to learn how all of the major organs are arranged in the body. I enjoy watching them struggle to get everything to fit together when I give them all the separate pieces. \r\nThe students were very excited to see the. And very eager to try to get the pieces in correctly. I plan to use it as an assessment as well, at the end of the year, both in identifying each piece and to see if they can put them back together. It has been so much fun watching the student actually be able to visualize how the organs look in the human body.","fullyFundedDate":1735706140593,"projectUrl":"project/learning-experiences-for-student-interes/8729409/","projectTitle":"Learning Experiences for Student Interested in Health and Medical Careers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Skarzynski","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8499409"},{"teacherId":9129266,"projectId":8632505,"letterContent":"Through the first half of the year, students were engaging and responding to key learning points about the history 3-D structures. Our goal is to engage students, in responding to Basic 3-Dimensional sculpture and hand-building/pottery techniques. Through guided practice, we improved their abilities to used wood, cardboard, wire, and clay for sculptures with a function/purpose, and/or organic or abstract objects, similar to other works that have been done throughout history. We talked about the history of sculpture as functional art, facilitated a form over function discussion, and the sculptural building techniques. Visualizing in 3-D (mass, volume, & seeing art in-the-round). Introduce select projects: mask-making with plastic molds, and self-standing, three dimensional artistic or functional sculptures. Demonstrating basic techniques and tools for mask-making and building sculptural forms; making skeletal frames, armatures, and/or frameworks and using the tools, safe and appropriately. As well as the finishing processes. Goal: Creating a functional piece of sculpture using skills, tools, and techniques. We completed a formative assessment for vocabulary related to cardboard, wood and clay. The added benefit of working in a 3-D Art Studio space is building patience, resiliency, and perseverance competencies for all academic success, and create works of art through a STEAM-oriented process. \r\nMy hope is that students gain an understanding of the strategies and competencies for an ongoing habit of practice using organizational skills to enhance one's executive functioning skills. Grades began to reflect success with completion expectations, I encouraged more engaged involvement in the artistic process. In the future, I will focus on the following areas to improve student achievement: classroom management (clean-up in a timely manner) throughout the entire class period, continued engagement in creative process through curriculum focus areas for students, thus, creating powerful and meaningful personal connections to art. Along with inherent literacy components, and imbedded SEL vocabulary, and leadership competencies.","fullyFundedDate":1729518630767,"projectUrl":"project/creating-3-d-art-is-steam-builds-patien/8632505/","projectTitle":"Creating 3-D Art is STEAM; Builds Patience, Resiliency, and Perseverance","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Spencer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9129266_orig.jpg?crop=1760,1760,x1370,y658&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701270979665","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9129266"},{"teacherId":8499409,"projectId":8450801,"letterContent":"I can't thank you enough for your generosity in donating to my project. These models are so helpful in my classes. The courses that I teach where I will use them the most are Anatomy and Physiology and Medical Terminology. In addition, I advise a medical leader club. \r\nThe students were very excited to see the models and for most students, they were not able to identify what all of the organs were. It was so fun to see them discussing with each other what each one was. The smaller model has pieces that are removable and uncover other organs deeper in the body, such as the kidneys. It is extremely helpful for student to visualize how all the organs fit into the abdominal cavity. I am hopeful some day to get a class set of the smaller ones, but this works well to rotate stations and also I can pull it out every time a student asks about the location of specific organs. The larger model of the circulatory system is an excellent model to show the branching of the blood vessels, and is color coded to show the difference between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood and the heart opens to see the four chambers so the students can trace the path of the blood throughout the body. I can use it not just to show them but to ask meaningful in-depth questions and their answers allow me to assess their knowledge and the students feel good about themselves when they can point to something and really show they know what they are talking about. Visualization is such an important part of learning anatomy and physiology. 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