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Ms. Hodges from Oakland CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Electronic Building Blocks

Help me give my students the new electronic building blocks of the 21st century.

  • $442 goal

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My Students

I teach technology for all the grades (Extended Transitional Kindergarten through Grade 5) at a public school rated at 74% socioeconomically disadvantaged students (many free/reduced priced lunches). I am a first-year teacher so I'm just now setting up this classroom thus I have posted multiple projects.

Oakland students are curious, enthusiastic, and creative.

They are ready to get hands-on in their learning technology and I want to craft the best learning opportunities I can then get out of the way of their genius.

My Project

LittleBits kits are electronic building blocks that snap together magnetically providing instant, reliable feedback so that students can build gizmos at a higher level of abstraction. Rather than soldering or breadboards (which are harder to use for smaller hands with lower levels of fine motor control), they can just snap these bits together and focus on learning terms like: power, input, output, sensor, and control, while having fun and working through the engineering design process.

LittleBits are a tool I can let students loose to create with -- with minimal instruction beforehand.

I just need one set to use as a station rather than a classroom set. Students will get used to snapping together bits and I expect this experience will inform their later efforts with snapping together software code blocks.

Ms. Hodges
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
littleBits STEAM Student set, Up to 4-students • Amazon Business $299.95 1 $299.95
Getting Started with littleBits: Prototyping and Inventing with Modular Electronics • Amazon Business $11.97 1 $11.97

Materials cost

$311.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $28.54

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$375.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.20

Total project goal

$441.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $441.34

7 Donors

-$371.34

Donations toward project cost

-$315.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.70

match offer

-$70.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$59.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

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 $0.00

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