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Mr. Overway from Spring Lake MI is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Button Your Brain!

My students need a Button Machine that can be used to make visual reminders students can wear to reinforce any ideas!

  • $561 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Constant reminders! Imagine trying to remember one new concept, when the very next day you also have to process another. This can be quite frustrating for teachers, as well as, students! You can be the catalyst for providing daily visual reminders improving the reinforcement of concepts!

Our village is small, but education here is a big deal.

This works, because my kids are wonderful, kind-hearted children who love to laugh, smile, and learn. With 28 students in my class, we need to think out of the box on how to be in more than one place at a time...

My Project

Imagine the students becoming walking billboards, but rather than Hollister or Abercrombie they sport math, science, social studies, or reading concepts. With the Button Maker you are donating to, students will be able to create buttons illustrating and explaining major ideas in any subject. Teachers can coordinate buttons, so students need to search for button buddies that match illustrations with definitions, show processes, etc. The ideas are endless!

Your donation will put 28 more teachers in our room, because every time they turn to their left there will be a waxing gibbous moon, every time they turn to the right there will be a break-apart drawing, behind them "stop and ask ?s," and when they look in the mirror "BOOM!" a reminder to add onamonapeia in their writing.

Thank you!

Mr. Overway
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BUTTON PARTS/2.25 PIN BACK 1000 • Blick Art Materials $139.94 1 $139.94
METAL BUTTON MCHN/!D MINI MODEL • Blick Art Materials $273.99 1 $273.99
Item Shipping/Handling Charges • Blick Art Materials $20.95 1 $20.95

Materials cost

$434.88

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$476.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.07

Total project goal

$560.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$560.47

8 Donors

-$418.00

Donations toward project cost

-$355.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.70

match offer

-$142.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$121.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.37

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$0.00

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