Nearly all students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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One of the big pushes in academics is STEAM or STEM for students. My special needs students greatly enjoy hands-on learning and the school district I work for purchased LEGO Education kits for several exceptional needs classrooms to help the students with their story writing skills and programming skills. The tablets we have are outdated and no longer allow LEGO Education apps to work on them. We need new iPads to access this curriculum.
My students were very disappointed last year when we discovered the tablets no longer allowed updates for our LEGO kits, limiting their hands-on learning in science and language arts.
In language arts to get the students to work together more effectively and help with their writing skills, I would have them make scenes and type out what was happening to tell a story. This helped the students that struggled to form complete sentences to get their ideas down then build a sentence to tell their story. In science, we spend a great deal of time discussing types of energy. I found the students learned about the different types of energy when they were learning and using the terms by building things with LEGO and applying the knowledge of different types of energy to the project.
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One of the big pushes in academics is STEAM or STEM for students. My special needs students greatly enjoy hands-on learning and the school district I work for purchased LEGO Education kits for several exceptional needs classrooms to help the students with their story writing skills and programming skills. The tablets we have are outdated and no longer allow LEGO Education apps to work on them. We need new iPads to access this curriculum.
My students were very disappointed last year when we discovered the tablets no longer allowed updates for our LEGO kits, limiting their hands-on learning in science and language arts.
In language arts to get the students to work together more effectively and help with their writing skills, I would have them make scenes and type out what was happening to tell a story. This helped the students that struggled to form complete sentences to get their ideas down then build a sentence to tell their story. In science, we spend a great deal of time discussing types of energy. I found the students learned about the different types of energy when they were learning and using the terms by building things with LEGO and applying the knowledge of different types of energy to the project.