You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Upload a classroom photo

Ms. Steinkraus’ Classroom Edit display name

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Steinkraus a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. Steinkraus' classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Steinkraus a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Ms. Steinkraus can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8139547 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Upload a classroom photo
In my engineering and physics classes, I really strive to have as many hands-on, practical, meaningful projects as possible. Our principal does a great job identifying projects around the school for the students to work on and develop solutions for. In the past, these have included designing and building sound-absorbing panels for our gym, a skateboard storage rack, and shelving for a greenhouse. Other projects include building toys, a hover craft, mousetrap cars, roller coasters, and students this year in my second level engineering class have expressed interest in figuring out how to design and build a go cart. Unfortunately, the tools we currently have available are minimal, making the projects difficult and time-consuming to build. Students frequently become frustrated when their projects don't fit together as they have planned because they had to saw the pieces by hand and their cuts weren't straight or precise enough. I am hoping that these projects will instill my students with the skills and confidence to use tools to build things they need after they graduate and beyond. I also have students go through OSHA training so they come away with a safety mindset both in the workplace and at home.

About my class

In my engineering and physics classes, I really strive to have as many hands-on, practical, meaningful projects as possible. Our principal does a great job identifying projects around the school for the students to work on and develop solutions for. In the past, these have included designing and building sound-absorbing panels for our gym, a skateboard storage rack, and shelving for a greenhouse. Other projects include building toys, a hover craft, mousetrap cars, roller coasters, and students this year in my second level engineering class have expressed interest in figuring out how to design and build a go cart. Unfortunately, the tools we currently have available are minimal, making the projects difficult and time-consuming to build. Students frequently become frustrated when their projects don't fit together as they have planned because they had to saw the pieces by hand and their cuts weren't straight or precise enough. I am hoping that these projects will instill my students with the skills and confidence to use tools to build things they need after they graduate and beyond. I also have students go through OSHA training so they come away with a safety mindset both in the workplace and at home.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":8139547,"teacherId":8139547,"teacherName":"Ms. Steinkraus","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-4_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21835648,"followAbout":"Ms. Steinkraus' projects","teacherVerify":-903700730,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Steinkraus","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":false,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8139547","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=8139547","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":1},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.