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I want to thank you for providing some brand new tables for our STEAM Lab! These tables will help to differentiate between the various teams (red, orange, yellow, green, blue/aqua, indigo, and purple). We have a carpet that matches and also helps with the same. This is a rainbow STEAM room of color!
The tables also will be a little different size than our old ones and will give a little more open space in the main floor area and easier to walk around, but still give plenty of space (wider by shorter) for our projects.
Thanks again for all that you do!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 2 other donors.
I want to thank you for providing some brand new tables for our STEAM Lab! These tables will help to differentiate between the various teams (red, orange, yellow, green, blue/aqua, indigo, and purple). We have a carpet that matches and also helps with the same. This is a rainbow STEAM room of color!
The tables also will be a little different size than our old ones and will give a little more open space in the main floor area and easier to walk around, but still give plenty of space (wider by shorter) for our projects.
Thanks again for all that you do!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 2 other donors.
I want to thank you for providing some brand new tables for our STEAM Lab! These tables will help to differentiate between the various teams (red, orange, yellow, green, blue/aqua, indigo, and purple). We have a carpet that matches and also helps with the same. This is a rainbow STEAM room of color!
The tables also will be a little different size than our old ones and will give a little more open space in the main floor area and easier to walk around, but still give plenty of space (wider by shorter) for our projects.
Thanks again for all that you do!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 2 other donors.
I want to thank you for providing some brand new tables for our STEAM Lab! These tables will help to differentiate between the various teams (red, orange, yellow, green, blue/aqua, indigo, and purple). We have a carpet that matches and also helps with the same. This is a rainbow STEAM room of color!
The tables also will be a little different size than our old ones and will give a little more open space in the main floor area and easier to walk around, but still give plenty of space (wider by shorter) for our projects.
Thanks again for all that you do!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 2 other donors.
These clipboards will be super handy for those students who like to work on the carpet! They are big and give lots of room to spread out and make individual desks of sorts. This will help us when making observations away from our tables, making blueprints or engineering designs, or tracking robots.
The kids are super amazed and have never seen any clipboards like these before, so it is also a novelty - so of course everyone wants to try them out.
Thank you for supporting the work we do in the STEAM Lab!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and one other donor.
It is such a relief to have new mice. Our old ones still work as backups, but many have exposed wires and some had stopped working altogether. These new mice are smaller and fit in our pouches much better than the previous mice. The pouches help us organize our mice and headphones together and make for very easy tracking of equipment.
The smaller mice will also be better for our smaller students with smaller hands. Often, when students first start using a mouse, they have trouble pushing the buttons and moving at the same time. The small size of the mouse should be helpful for small hands.
Thank you for helping my students have the equipment that they need!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 3 other donors.
This rug is amazing! I had the chance to set it up yesterday afternoon. It took a little time (there are 42 squares that you essentially connect with extra-sticky stickers). You should have heard the ooohs and aaahs from the kids this morning as they walked in. No my carpet matches my table coloring and organizational system! Purple table sits on the purple row, indigo tables sits on the indigo row and so on.
I can't wait to also try it out with the older kids because there is a lot more space. I can't want to try it with our youngest students because, sometimes, they argue over what "letter" to sit on. My previous carpet had the alphabet on it and the kids often want to sit on "their" letter.
Thank you so much for helping fund this rainbow joy in my room!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares and 14 other donors.
My students were super excited to get the new sticker selection for table rewards. We were running out of the previous batch and the choices were kind of skimpy. Now they have a HUGE variety to choose from!! Animals, nature, travel, 60s and 70s vibe, Pokémon (a big winner!), Star Wars, Harry Potter, and more. We also were able to add some new fun prizes to our prize box for our STEAM monthly raffles - only now I think I might be able to do a weekly raffle instead. We will see.
This has been one of the best years in the STEAM Lab and I am so excited to teach here! Thank you for your support.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab
This classroom project was brought to life by San Diego Gas & Electric and 3 other donors.
Thank you for helping fund these supplies for my classroom! We have moved classrooms and now have room for an additional table so that no more than 5 people are at each table, and most tables only have 4. This has worked out really well, EXCEPT that we did not have enough supplies for the extra table.
Now we do!
Our 7th table can now have access to Brain Blox, Picasso magnetic tile building set and marble run, along with building bricks, including tires, wheels, axles, and more. Now I can feel good about taking out these supplies and everyone can participate!
Thanks so much for all of the new resources for our STEAM Lab. They will go a long way to help create centers for our littlest learners! The students will really love all of the Playdoh, Brain Flakes, base plates, straw building set, and Go Code activity set.
We will get a lot of use with these items, in Universal Transitional Kindergarten, and with the older students as well! I look forward to getting these sets implemented in the classroom, and am really interested to use the Go Code activity set to start them in coding!
Thank you for making this possible with your generous donations!”
I teach science to all grades, TK-5, at our small elementary school. The students come to the Science Lab once a week for 1 hour or more each visit. Our school has a wide range of students in its population. We serve neighborhood children, military families, and students from areas of higher poverty that ride the bus to our school by choice. We have many cultures represented on our campus, free and reduced lunch for a little over half of our population, and a strong military family representation. Many of our students have a parent deployed. While our elementary classrooms focus on all academic areas, including science, the Science Lab is dedicated to the enrichment and enjoyment of both science and engineering, and challenges students to be flexible and creative problem solvers.
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I teach science to all grades, TK-5, at our small elementary school. The students come to the Science Lab once a week for 1 hour or more each visit. Our school has a wide range of students in its population. We serve neighborhood children, military families, and students from areas of higher poverty that ride the bus to our school by choice. We have many cultures represented on our campus, free and reduced lunch for a little over half of our population, and a strong military family representation. Many of our students have a parent deployed. While our elementary classrooms focus on all academic areas, including science, the Science Lab is dedicated to the enrichment and enjoyment of both science and engineering, and challenges students to be flexible and creative problem solvers.