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  • Jim Hill High School
  • Jackson, MS
  • HBCU Alum
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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If my project is fully funded, undoubtedly we will be looking at the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs! The students are so thirsty for knowledge and access to to the latest technology! Now we are all back to school and need the much needed supplies to make it a meaningful technology class. I will be working with the STEM curriculum to design the spaghetti bridge, paper tower and Rube Goldberg projects along with other complex challenges. We lack students in the STEM program and these projects will keep them innovative and knowledgeable in the subject matter. The students in my technology class are from low income homes and until today my classroom has no computers or even access to individual laptops as they were all taken away during the pandemic and never made it back to the classroom. Now I am left with hands on technology instruction. I have around 150 students in my 10th grade and no funds to purchase STEM resourced for all of them. This is my Lesson Plan: Standards: 1.) Demonstrate problem solving and teamwork skills by completing a complex challenge. 2.) Identify course expectations, school policies, student organizations, and program policies related to this course. Learning Goal(s)/Target(s): 1a.) Students will be able to complete a complex challenge like a Paper Tower by applying the problem solving steps. 2a.) Students will be able to identify school rules, policy and procedures by going through the student handbook. 2b.) Identify and establish classroom guidelines and procedures by setting classroom goals. 2c.) Review course standards, and affiliated national standards like IB Learner Profile and MYP Design Cycle. Essential Question(s): 1.) What is the student’s classroom goals? 2.) How will the students incorporate the IB Learner Profile in your daily life as a Jim Hill scholar?

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If my project is fully funded, undoubtedly we will be looking at the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs! The students are so thirsty for knowledge and access to to the latest technology! Now we are all back to school and need the much needed supplies to make it a meaningful technology class. I will be working with the STEM curriculum to design the spaghetti bridge, paper tower and Rube Goldberg projects along with other complex challenges. We lack students in the STEM program and these projects will keep them innovative and knowledgeable in the subject matter. The students in my technology class are from low income homes and until today my classroom has no computers or even access to individual laptops as they were all taken away during the pandemic and never made it back to the classroom. Now I am left with hands on technology instruction. I have around 150 students in my 10th grade and no funds to purchase STEM resourced for all of them. This is my Lesson Plan: Standards: 1.) Demonstrate problem solving and teamwork skills by completing a complex challenge. 2.) Identify course expectations, school policies, student organizations, and program policies related to this course. Learning Goal(s)/Target(s): 1a.) Students will be able to complete a complex challenge like a Paper Tower by applying the problem solving steps. 2a.) Students will be able to identify school rules, policy and procedures by going through the student handbook. 2b.) Identify and establish classroom guidelines and procedures by setting classroom goals. 2c.) Review course standards, and affiliated national standards like IB Learner Profile and MYP Design Cycle. Essential Question(s): 1.) What is the student’s classroom goals? 2.) How will the students incorporate the IB Learner Profile in your daily life as a Jim Hill scholar?

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