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Dr. Hodnett from Lancaster SC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Creating Tomorrows Thinkers With STEAM

Help me give my students a STEAM experience that will allow them to work collaboratively, become communicators, and creative critical thinkers.

  • $624 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

The school I work at has a 97% of the students on free or reduced lunch. We are a title I school. My students love STEAM activities and projects. They enjoy hands on activities including art and music in addition to Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Our population has regretfully our students have not been exposed to many things that students at other schools have been. This adds to a lot of deficits and remediation.

Hands-on and project based learning is a proven teaching method that increases student learning as well as the application of the learning to real life situations.

However, hands-on and project based learning can become very taxing to a classroom's budget or more often the teacher's personal budget.

My Project

Todays student is not just a learner of information. These students will not be ask to recall facts and figures but they will be ask to think critically, collaborate, communicate and be creative in the work force. I can teach fact after fact but that does not prepare students for the future.

These STEAM projects will allow all my students to experience project based and hands on learning successfully.

While focusing on the project the students will also learn valuable skills that will insure success in the work place of the future.

Funding of these Ozobots will allow the students to learn how to code and learn that technology is not all about games but has practical applications as well. The engineering items will help increase the student's creativity and communication skills. The items in this project will simply make the students in my class better people and learners for the future.

Dr. Hodnett
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Evo App-Connected Coding Robot (White) • Amazon Business $86.48 4 $345.92
Geomag - MECHANICS GRAVITY MOTOR - 168-Piece Building Set with Magnetic Motion, Certified STEM Marble Run Construction Toy for Ages 7 and Up • Amazon Business $59.89 1 $59.89
Ozobot Construction Accessory Kit, for Bit • Amazon Business $11.97 4 $47.88

Materials cost

$453.69

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.62

Sales tax

 $31.99

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$530.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.55

Total project goal

$623.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $623.66

5 Donors

-$311.83

Donations toward project cost

-$265.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.77

match offer

-$311.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$265.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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