Project: Help Our Classroom to Learn MORE!
Resources Needed: Language Teaching Center, Real-World Math Solving Kit, EggspertClassroom Game System
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: North Forrest Attendance Center, Hattiesburg, MS
Total Cost: $483.32
Still Needed: $106.66 Completed!
Expires: Nov 04, 2014
Teacher's Comments from Ms. Turner:
My Students:My students love to help each other and will be the first to "run to the rescue" to any visitors in our room to show them what to do. They love reading to one another and making puzzles on our carpet. They are a very active bunch and love to play but they also know when it's time to work and do a great job at it! We love to learn new things and make sure we have fun while doing so!
My Project: My students need language and reading teaching manipulatives, Real Life Math problems and board games, and a wireless Eggspert Classroom Game System and AC adaptor for group learning.
COMPLETED!
Project: A Digital Laboratory with the Raspberry Pi Microcomputer
Resources Needed: 5 Raspberry Pi interfaces
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: Clarkston High School, Clarkston, GA
Total Cost: $277.60
Still Needed: $78.45 Completed!
Expires: Dec 04, 2014
Teacher's Comments from Mr. Erbil:
My Students:Students in Clarkston High School, a Title I urban/suburban school east of Atlanta, are hard working, diligent students from working class backgrounds. Many of our students come from places of social and political conflict around the world to the United States as refugees. Another significant demographic of the school's students are Americans who come from humble socioeconomic backgrounds.
My Project: The Raspberry Pi is a $38 microcomputer that is programmable with traditional programming languages used on larger computers such as C, Java, and Python. The devices that we are requesting will be used in the science laboratory to enhance students' ability to create digital interfaces to measurement devices.
COMPLETED!
Project: Friction: It's a "Rough" Life
Resources Needed: friction apparatus, friction on an inclined plane, friction cube
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: Roan Creek Elementary School, Mountain City, TN
Total Cost: $236.60
Still Needed: $78.89 Completed
Expires: Sep 22, 2014
Teacher's Comments from Mr. Timb:
My Students:I work with the best kids in the world! Even though the majority of them come from poverty, they come in on most days with big smiles on their faces and an eagerness to learn. Many of them come to us without a lot of background experiences, so I try to give them numerous opportunities to get their hands on science and social studies materials.
My Project: It seems that the physical sciences can be some of the hardest concepts for students to grasp. By using the requested friction apparatus, friction cubes, and friction on an inclined plane devices, my students will be able to transfer the concepts we are discussing to several hands-on activities. These resources will allow students to see how friction is influenced by factors such as gravity, texture, and slope. These resources will also enable students to observe and understand how friction must be accounted for in everyday life.
COMPLETED!
Project: New News is Good News
Resources Needed: 20 Super Science, 20 Scholastic News
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: Wakpala School, Wakpala, SD
Total Cost: $385.74
Still Needed: $97.87 Completed
Expires: Dec 06, 2014
Teacher's Comments from Mrs. Griewskil:
My Students:"We once hunted for buffalo, we now hunt for knowledge."~Joe Chasing Horse. Students in reservation schools need to broaden their knowledge outside their community in areas of news and technology.
My Project: My students will be able to maintain an awareness of the world outside their immediate community through the reading and discussing of the current news presented to them in these magazines. They will be blending the needed skills from Common Core, to the practical skills of reading and processing within the classroom setting.
COMPLETED!
Project: Let's Go Lego Robotics!
Resources Needed: LEGO Mindstorms EVE3
School Poverty Level: Highest
Location: Southwest DeKalb High School, Decatur, GA
Total Cost: $481.59
Still Needed: $140.79 Completed!
Expires: Dec 04, 2014
Teacher's Comments from Ms. Chance:
My Students: Many of my students do not understand why they need to learn physics. I want to use robotics to spark their sense of wonder and engage them in the problem solving aspect of physics and engineering.
My Project: Using the Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit, my students will be able to build and program robots to solve various problems. This will allow students to work through problem solving and coding using logic. They can study forces, optics, electricity, sound and computer coding using the robots.
COMPLETED!
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