This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
We are a public, Pre-K through 8th grade Montessori school, which is part of The Cleveland Metropolitan School District in Cleveland. Ohio. Our school is comprised of students from all over our city, which has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation. Our Montessori students follow a child-centered approach with a goal to develop each child physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively, allowing students to learn in collaborative groups.
Our new LEGO WeDo kits have lots of small pieces and we need a fixed routine to reclaim pieces that have been misplaced.
Our young robotics students are inquisitive and fun. They love to explore and build with our WeDo2.0 kits. Thanks to our generous donors here at Donors Choose, we have been gradually acquiring WeDo kits this school year. We are also fortunate to have several LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kits. Our teacher forums and training videos all recommend a fixed routine, like a multi-drawer hardware case for misplaced pieces. We would be able to label each drawer with a photo of the piece, so students who lost a piece can quickly locate it and students who have found a piece can safely store it.
My Project
We are so thankful to have thirteen new LEGO WeDo2.0 robotics kits to add to our robotics supplies and want to be sure to take excellent care of them. We have watched numerous training videos that recommend we have a procedure and system to organize our LEGO pieces. With 2,054 pieces in play, there is always going to be something left behind, no matter how careful we try to be. We also have 218 pieces in the replacement kits that need to be organized, and that is just the WeDo sets! We have hundreds more pieces in the Mindstorms EV3 kits that will also benefit from this organization system. The dividers allow us to put multiple pieces in each tray, so a lost piece can be safely tucked away until the next users find that it is missing. It also helps aide end of season inventory, when the students are hunting for specific pieces to restock their kits.
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