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Mrs. Xiong from Saint Paul, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Build it! Live it! Drive it! -STEAM Power

My students need at least four sets of Design & Building Engineering Centers to construct road, bridges, and buildings as a practice essential daily needs in real life situations.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Xiong's classroom raised $579

This project is fully funded

My Students

81% of the students from my school received free and reduced lunched and are culturally diverse who are eager to learn how to read, write, do math and steam. Steam is the most excited learning power of the day. The merriment, beaming, and supremacy conversation brings the room to live for the unpredicted projects to an incredible imagination during Steam.

My students are culturally diversifying with eagers to be creative, to use their imaginations, to go on an adventurous through the lens of learning, and the inspirations of becoming an engineer and a scientist.

Using technology to bring art and math to live in a classroom full of jolly learners. To know where the imaginations have motivated them to accomplish something enthusiastic is the most robust learning skills a student can achieve.

My Project

Steam is part of our learning at the end of the day. My students are so excited during the steam time because they have the opportunities to become an engineer, scientists, teachers, and beyond imaginations. They love the constructing of buildings, trees, cars, bridges, and houses. We have been using constructions papers and other necessaries supplies such as tubes, markers, crayons, toothpicks to build the essential communities.

Steam has been a dominant learning skill for my students since it provides them, strong hands-on activities that are related to real-life situations.

For instance, they realized building a car is not as simple as they anticipated. They have to make sure the wheels are working; the doors closed, and it has a roof.

Although we have been using various of items to create lifelong projects, it does not turn out constructive as they would have like it. First of all, it took my class one day to cut out the necessary items and to draw it. Second, the glues do not always stick together so when they put the projects together, the constructions papers would fall apart, or the glues were not staying. And Lastly, just by doing this, it took us a week to work on simple projects.

With your generous donations, my students will genuinely be able to have more efficient learning. Weeks of using construction will only be a day or two for students to work on simple projects. Students will spend more time learning about scientist, engineer, and using technology into learning. When you helped donate, you have provided an excellent hands-on education for these little children. You will help build these little one self-esteem and making them into a scientist or an engineer one day.

Mrs. Xiong Battle Creek Elementary Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP750X - Design & Build Engineering Centers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $125.00 3 $375.00
PP752 - Vehicle Building Engineering Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP751 - Bridge Building Engineering Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$454.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$491.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.79

Total project goal

$578.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$578.59

3 Donors

-$289.29

Donations toward project cost

-$245.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.39

match offer

-$289.29

Match offer toward project cost

-$245.90

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.39

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$0.00

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