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Mrs. Sires from Wylie TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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1st Grade STEM Bins: Hands-On Experiences

My students need a variety of materials like pipe cleaners, jumbo popsicle sticks and Play-Doh to enhance our new STEM corner.

  • $170 goal

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My Students

The students in my classroom are creative, enthusiastic and eager to learn. They love to move, love to read and love to be engaged. They come into the classroom each day excited to see me and excited to see what the day is going to teach them. In my classroom, I serve a variety of students and my goal is to provide them with creative and meaningful learning experiences. By doing this in a positive way, I am hopeful to instill a love of learning within each one of my students.

My Project

For elementary students, meaningful work should be hands-on, engaging, and open ended. Why?!

Because children have a natural drive to play, explore, and engineer whenever possible.

These STEM Bins will be filled with engineering manipulatives such as Legos, pattern blocks, base ten blocks, Unifix cubes, toothpicks and Play-Doh, or popsicle sticks with Velcro on the ends. The boxes will contain small sets of task cards that picture a variety of basic engineering structures. When regular classwork is complete, my students will be able to take a STEM Bin and get a quiet moment to engineer. They use the materials in the box to construct as many different structures on the cards as they can. And instead of being just “busy,” students are engaged in creative, complex tasks and are encouraged to think like inventors. Kinesthetic learners, spatial learners, and logical learners will love exploring the different possibilities for the building materials as they try to construct more challenging structures.

Mrs. Sires
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sterilite Small Clip Box, 2.75 x 6.63-Inches, Pack of 6 • Amazon Business $21.88 2 $43.76
STEAM Kids: 50+ Science / Technology / Engineering / Art / Math Hands-On Projects for Kids • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
Building Bricks - Pastel Colors - 500 Pieces - Compatible with all Major Brands • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Darice 9166-02 Colored Jumbo Craft Sticks • Amazon Business $12.07 1 $12.07
Bememo 200 Pieces Pipe Cleaners Chenille Stems 6 mm x 12 Inch for Diy Art Craft, Assorted Colors • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
Play-Doh Box o' Color Set • Amazon Business $7.62 1 $7.62
VELCRO Brand - Adhesive Dots - Removable - 3/8" - 80 Count • Amazon Business $4.92 1 $4.92

Materials cost

$112.44

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$144.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.43

Total project goal

$169.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $169.56

3 Donors

-$144.56

Donations toward project cost

-$122.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.68

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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 $0.00

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