I teach learning-disabled students. They have a variety of disabilities which include autism, severely emotionally disturbed, learning-disabilities and epilepsy. My school is a Title I school and some of my students are bused into our school.
My learning-disabled students have a variety of disabilities and they come from every ethnic and social-economic background.
They are loving and caring students that need extra help and assistance in order to achieve their highest potential.
Helping them get back into regular classes and graduate is my most important goal. Below is a picture of me and one of my graduating students.
My Project
Students with disabilities need materials that ignite their excitement toward learning. The STEM cars that I am requesting for forty-five of my students will provide access to hands-on learning that will make the scientific concepts of force and motion understandable to my students and will encourage them to see and feel things beyond book learning.
By being able to modify and enhance the performance of their individual stem balloon cars, that my special students will later race, they will not only learn the relationship of mass, acceleration, friction, inertia, and centripetal force, but they will also have something to keep and remind them of their day at the science terrific races.
Then the scientific race is on! Students will compete against each other to see whose car goes the fastest, and whose car goes the farthest. The top award will go to the student who is able to state what modifications made the difference. The cars are propelled by balloons, thus students will be experimenting with the mass of the car, the wheels shape, the size of the balloons and the amount of air they will need to "win" the race.
More than half of 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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