Find It Fund It Florida - Hillsborough Education Foundation

STEM Thinking and Coding

School:: Muller Elementary School
Category:: Science
Teacher/ Administrator:: Andrea Marshall
: 102089
Students Impacted:: 50
Grade Levels Impacted:: K-5
Date:: August 3, 2022

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Amgen Foundation - $1,539.80

Project Goal

The goal of this project is to create and deliver engaging lessons based in science and engineering for K-5 grade students. Using LEGOs with the Gifted students at my school will help prepare them for careers in STEM. The use of the materials in this grant will increase the scores on the Statewide Science Assessment by 10%. This is due to the higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills that the students will use with these sets.

How Project Benefits Students

This project will purchase the materials so that I can add to the lessons with my K-5 students. I plan on using these materials all year and for many years to come. Students will first establish routines and procedures with the materials and then be engaged in a STEM problem with a solution that involves a build with LEGO's. This could be anything from creating a story board with sound effects to coding and drawing geometric shapes with the robot. Since these materials are not consumable, they would be available for many years.

Expected Outcome(s)

I hope to create an environment so that the students are taking risks and helping each other to solve these real world problems. I am attempting to prepare these students for careers that may not even yet be invented. The only way to do this is to make them confident in their abilities and challenge them to think outside the box. The use of the materials in this grant will increase the scores on the Statewide Science Assessment by 10%. This is due to the higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills that the students will use with these sets.

Detailed Cost Summary

This is on the LEGO education website. I would need a set of LEGOs for each group of three students that I teach. Four more sets would give me enough to work with about 18 students at a time. https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#spike%E2%84%A2-prime

Items

#	Item Description	Total Cost
1	45678 Lego Spike Prime Set	$384.95
2	45678 Lego Spike Prime Set	$384.95
3	45678 Lego Spike Prime Set	$384.95
4	45678 Lego Spike Prime Set	$384.95
	Total:	$1,539.80

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