Invention, Engineering, and Robotics in Third Grade
My students need littleBits STEAM Student Sets to engage in engineering design and invention as they create electronic solutions to problems they see in the classroom.
$780 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 eager, active, curious, and imaginative hands on learners. My students are engaged daily in a rigorous, integrated academic curriculum, which includes a high emphasis in STEM learning. My students live in a high poverty, metropolitan city and attend a Title 1 school. Our inner city school lacks the funding to access supplemental learning materials.
My students show up to class daily and work diligently to overcome the many challenges they face living in the inner city.
My students enjoy working cooperatively and display great creativity. Parents continually seek the best possible educational opportunities for their child. Additionally, I believe children benefit from experiences that include discovery, exploration, awakening curiosity, and an appreciation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
My Project
I am requesting littleBits STEAM Student Sets to make science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and coding come to life for my students. Using the combination of the littleBits, computer software, and engaging, standards-based projects students will build confidence to ask questions, define problems, and design their own solutions. Students will think critically and create electronic solutions to problems they see in the classroom.
Guided by the Next Generation Science Standards students will work in cooperative groups to engage in project-based learning to produce robotic creations, and use coding to program their robots to complete a specific action and task.
For example, students will engage in engineering design as they build their own automatic artistic assistant and explore environmental sensors as they create alarms that safeguard their school supplies.
Students will then present their robotics creations to the school community and explain the purpose,use and function of their electronic design. Also, students will post videos of their completed robotics creations on our classroom online blog, expanding their learning boundaries beyond the classroom and towards a global understanding.
Please help my students be creative problem-solvers and equip them with the necessary STEM knowledge and skills to be innovative and imaginative thinkers.
With your generosity, bringing littleBits technology to my classroom will help make abstract STEM concepts tangible to my students and provide them with the necessary 21st century skills.
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