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Goal

The goal is to provide a project based learning makerspace for students in grades sixth thru eight. The objective is to provide these students with a diverse learning experience that will include making, exploring STEM content, in class demos, and project based learning. The grant project will build a high quality maker space with leading materials in the field of STEAM education that will be used by sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.  

 

What will be done with my students

The grant seeks to obtain project based makerspace equipment. The objective of the project is to afford students a learning environment rich with possibilities and rooted in Ron Clark's 55 essentials, which include creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. Listed projects experiments will increase the success of STEM interest and participation for the intended grade levels. The students will be provided with interactive learning experiences that engage them in the scientific inquiry process. Fully engaged, the students in grades 6-8 will participate and be capable of learning important STEM skills that will assist them with continued independent study. Any student in grades 6-8 can participate with lab setups for roughly 60 students. The funding will be used for ongoing STEM experiments. The STEM project ideas can be replicated in any 6-8 grade level specific classroom. Students will participate in hands on activities that involve coding, robotics, geology, circuitry, and textiles.

The projects will be replicated/published on school websites to continue to aid subgroups and provide better understanding of STEM concept skills; therefore making projects available to a wider audience. Some projects will be ongoing extensions activities designed to extend learning, however; some projects will be new experiments’, allowing students to work in small groups to create and reinforce STEM concept understanding in a wider context of STEM. 

 

Benefits to my students

Educational research strongly benefits STEM and Project based learning. Makerspaces integrate STEM and project based learning in environments where students take control of and own their own learning. Our students need a chance to do this by thinking creatively with STEM materials and using realistic tools to solve problems. This project will turn students into technology gurus, engineers, thinkers, builders, and problem solvers. World wide company leaders and innovators like Apple and Google give their employees a chance to explore, play, and invent. Makerspace models real world employment for children because they must communicate and collaborate.  

 

Budget Narrative

The grant proposal will be used for a one-time project materials fee that consists of non-consumable items. The budget for the proposed project it $475.00 All materials are non-consumable meaning experiments can be replicated for additional subgroups. The materials in this project will empower students to come up with new ideas, to change their old ideas, and to learn from the ideas of others. These are skills we want our students to have and these are the skills they will need to be successful in 21st century employment.  

 

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