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• Reading Resource Center Needed!

  Funded Dec 25, 2024

  My students enjoy new experiences and the love of reading science books. Our STEM carpet was used to decorate our Science Fair & then for students to sit on when they read in our resource center. The Robotics books will help them to develop specific reading skills and the Anime coloring books are useful to help our students to focus & concentrate.

  When are supplies arrived they all gathered around the boxes waiting for me to open them. The biggest benefit was reading the stories about robots from our National Geographic Robots books and selecting several more stories to read in the Big Book of Science Fiction.

  These resources will allow my students to continue reading unique stories well into next year. Our resources will also allow my students to create their own stories in the "Make a Story" writing journal. We will be using these journals as students share their own personal stories with nature.

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  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

• Money Matters: Understanding Money

  Funded Oct 9, 2024

  Our generation of students at 11 yrs old already have a debit card, but seldom understand the concept of credits and debits or how to count money.

  Our financial literacy class works with an online program to teach kids about money. The headphones we received allows our students the privacy to listen to and follow the lessons in a private environment.

  The practice money we received provides a visual support that allowed students to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying & to understand money when it is saved and spent. This is an important skill that they are learning thanks to your donation.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by Charles Schwab Foundation and one other donor.

• I Want to Get to Know You.... Yes I do.

  Funded Aug 3, 2023

  It's amazing how inviting an illusion carpet can encourage students to present in front of their classmates. My students were excited and surprised to see the carpet as well as all the wonderful resources they could use to get to know one another.

  We are using the puzzle mats and puzzles to recognize shapes, work collaboratively and compete to see which teams can complete our 500 to 1000 piece puzzles. The puzzle mats makes it easier to roll all the pieces together and to continue working during our club time.

  We will be using or cup stacking kits to learn how to compete in several cup stacking competitions and to understand motion and force.

  Students were so excited to germinate bonsai seeds and utilize the bonsai soil & containers to grow three different types of bonsai trees. Students are excited to be able to grow mini trees that they can take home to care for. All of these resources were made possible because of donors like you. Thank you for caring about our community.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and one other donor.

• STEM FOCUS: What is a Bridge?

  Funded Aug 11, 2023

  Thanks to your donations we were able to purchase several Thames & Kosmos Structural Engineering: Bridges & Skyscrapers Kits from CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY COMPANY. My students were so surprised when the kits arrived, to learn that instead of cardboards they will be building using metal pieces, bolts and tools. They cheer and wanted to start building right away.

  These materials are being utilized in my students exploration of forces and how forces are balanced. Our unit focus question is What is a Bridge? They are using the kits to learn about stability of structural design by actually building model bridges & model skyscrapers of real structures in New York City.

  Next steps are for students to investigate how to construct Earthquake resistant bridges & skyscrapers. They are theorizing what would happen if an Earthquake occurred in New York, or other cities that are not currently experiencing earthquakes. Thank you again for your donations, they allowed me to purchase real kits and this tells my students that they are inventors, researchers & engineers that people care about.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

• Black History is Our History Let's Learn About It!

  Funded Apr 6, 2023

  As you can see from some of the pictures, we were able to utilize several of the posters from this project to update our doors and classrooms with pictures of successful African-Americans such as Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Astronaut Mae Jemison, and several others, to continue to celebrate Women History Month as well as Black History Month.

  As we completed several learning walks to learn about each person from posters or our books, my students share how they did not know about so many heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, or Mary Mcleod Bethune. Each student selected a person of choice from these resources and presented what they learned to the class.

  The books, posters and inspirational posters allowed students to learn about the heroes that lobbied and fought for our future as well as provide a warm welcoming environment to our classroom. These posters share information about each person and is not just a lovely picture. Students as well as staff stop to read the posters posted in the hallways as we recycle them through our school. All of us are learning about the contributions of African-Americans to American History everyday. Thank you for giving.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by Black History Month Partners and 3 other donors.

• We Can Do It! Women History Month

  Funded Feb 10, 2023

  Imagine your an 11yrs old girl in a science school with 68% boys and you come to class to find a celebratory display of female judges, inventors, scientists, astraunots, and more surrounding your doorway & classroom.

  The reason is a month long celebration of contributions that girls and women have made to NASA, IBM, the presidency and more. Your donations helped me to teach about women history not only during the month of March but throughout the entire year. We can now celebrate these women every year. Thank you for sharing your financial resources with us.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by Black History Month Partners and 2 other donors.

• Ready Set Create!

  Funded Dec 6, 2022

  The resources that we received was used by our students during their participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) Mission 17 Patch Competition. This competition encouraged students to use their artistic skills to submit a graphic design to represent Mission 17, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 Mission as well as our schools winning experiment, "The effects of microgravity on the germination of raphanus sativus aka radish seeds". Students used the resources, such as the science notebooks to take notes about what they learned about microgravity and the SSEP patch competition when exploring the SSEP website, researching about the space program and from teacher lectures. They used these resources to create unique patches following specific specifications that required several measurements. Several patches were completed & the winning patch will fly with the astronauts during Mission 17.

  My students were excited to receive the materials they needed and were very surprised that we were able to receive funding so quickly. They are really please to know that donors such as you have invested in their success.

  Next steps, we will continue to use these resources for other projects such as researching airplane designs as well as celebrating Women's History Month be creating post cards to share what they have learned about a women in science history who changed the world.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares and 4 other donors.

• A Plant Grows in Brooklyn: A Space Story

  Funded Sep 5, 2022

  Nothing makes students feel more like a scientist than having the correct resources to work with, such as a scientific notebook that is organized with graphic paper as well as a written section. My students were very excited to receive their scientific notebooks where they are able to write their observations as well as draw and graph their data. This is an all in one notebook, without the possibility of losing their drawings or graphed information.

  Your donations allowed us to purchase scientific notebooks, as well as markers and an electronic board to engage students during our investigations. Students participated in several plant workshops in and out of school and were prepared to document their informations and present their findings.

  Students also used the growing trays to plant their seeds and learn about germination and the development of plants such as cotton, hibiscus, chives and sage. These activities were very important to the development of their testable questions for participation in the Student Space Flight Experiment Program. Having the tools needed such as rulers to take measurements, growing stations with growing trays, as well as notebooks to track and carry out our "see, think & wonder" activities & discussions for all units. The notebooks will become a resource material with scientific information that they will hold on to, beyond middle school.

  The plants that they grew in the growing station, were transplanted into larger pots. After our experiments they were able to take them home, and now have a mini garden of their own to take care of.

  Thank you so much for giving and allowing other donors to match your giving.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 4 other donors.

• STEM in Space: Seeds on a Mission

  Funded Sep 2, 2022

  Thanks to your donations we were able to purchase the seeds students used to researched several methods for germinating various types of seeds for their participation in the Student Spaceflight Program (SSEP).

  SSEP students were so excited to open our supplies and to learn about microgravity, life on the International Space Station (ISS) and how scientists grow plants in microgravity. Students conducted their experiment to collect data on how long their seeds would germinate and two teams submitted proposals for launch to the ISS.

  These experiments were possible only because you believed in our students by giving beyond our wildest dreams, and other donors matched your contributions. Our students were able to participate in this program thanks to you providing the seeds and other needed supplies.

  As a result of your donations one of our student team proposals was selected by the SSEP organization and will be conducted on the ISS in 2023.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jennings

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Funder and 2 other donors.