Past projects 4
Green Screen Reality in Our Engineering Projects
Funded Jun 30, 2022Thank you for your generosity and kindness in funding this project. My students have a wealth of creativity and imagination, and these materials will help them to bring these awesome talents to life in our math and science classrooms.
Because of your support, students who respond to the arts will find an entry point into disciplines that traditionally do not appeal to artists. My students will be able to use these materials to truly explore the intersecting nature of math, science and the value of the arts across all content areas.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dixon
This classroom project was brought to life by General Motors and one other donor.Using Stop Motion to Bring STEAM to Life!
Funded Jun 15, 2020Thank you for your generosity in supporting our classroom as we bring STEAM to life in our classroom. The materials that were purchased with your support will help my students to explore their artistry via science and math. The computer and the stopmotion animation kits will become a permanent stopmotion station in the classroom, available to students for throughout the year as an option for projects in all of their classes.
The pandemic and remote learning presented tremendous challenges for hands-on learning to our students, and our first semester back presented unique challenges as students re-adjusted to being back in the classroom. The one thing students missed most was the kinesthetic experience of learning, and having access to stopmotion animation technology certainly hooked them as they explored new content.
The projects we have been able to do with the stopmotion animation technology have been especially relevant to my students who are more artistically inclined, but who have not felt so successful in math and science. One of my students in particular, demonstrated curiosity and creativity in animating a stopmotion movie on cells that we might not have been able to see without this technology.
Your generosity has certainly already made an impact on my classroom, and I am sure it has helped to plant a seed of curiosity in many of my students. We thank you sincerely for being such an important part of their learning journey.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dixon
This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 27 other donors.Let's Build that ROV!
Funded Apr 1, 2015Thank you sincerely for your generosity in supporting our Donor's Choose project, "Let's Build that ROV!" With your donation, we were able to purchase supplies that enabled my students to build, test, and revise an underwater, remotely-operated vehicle. When my students received the supplies, they were especially excited to see things that they do not normally see in a classroom: vice grips, soldering irons, solder, screwdrivers, and pipe cutters.
Once the supplies arrived, we were able to set up more stations for the student teams to follow through on the plan to build their ROV. I was able to teach my students how to use the supplies, and expert students (those young scientists who took a particular interest in the use of the supplies) were able to support their classmates and become peer tutors in the application of these supplies. It has been an especially empowering experience for my female students to know that they are comfortable in the design and implementation of constructing vehicles like this: from cutting the pipes for the construction of the body, to soldering the control panel for the control box.
This project boosted my students' learning because we were able to have more students participate in small learning stations for the various steps in the construction of their vehicle. I saw my students' levels of engagement increase significantly and I heard conversations that involved revision, testing and reflection, which I believe is one of the most important components of the science learning process, or any learning process for that matter. I believe my students were able to take away life lessons from their experience building these ROVs.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dixon
Mathematics in Music: Exploring Rate in the Beat of a Drum
Funded Jan 18, 2012My students and I want to thank you sincerely for your generosity in funding our Mathematics in Music project. Using the drums during this project to analyze beats per minute made the concept more accessible to my students. They were able to study the math concept of rate in a concrete, hands-on way, and have fun at the same time!
They have also been able to use the drums in subsequent math units, including when they measured and studied the circumference and areas of circles.
With your support, mathematics and music became a real concept for my students!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dixon
This classroom project was brought to life by Wasserman Foundation and 4 other donors.