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Mrs. Clark from Oswego NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Engaging Through Making

My students need an assortment of supplies, including Legos, duct tape, craft books, and LittleBits in order to experience the joy of creating.

  • $560 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Do you know your learning style? Do you learn best by seeing, hearing, or doing? So much of school is geared to the visual or auditory learner. I want to build a small area in my library that is focused on the under served hands on learner.

My school serves students from Preschool through Grade 6 and our students come from a broad range of backgrounds.

While some of them come from traditional middle class families, just over half live in poverty. My library strives to serve as an equalizer for students.

My Project

As part of my goal to increase engagement of ALL learners in my building I am developing an area in my library that is dedicated to hands on learning and creating. This area is known as Creation Station and currently consists of very simple projects including “Make your own bookmark”, drawing books, and puzzles. Through this project I want to provide a more robust maker area, which will allow my students to dabble in electronics, origami, and crafts, among other things. Working in Creation Station will not only engage my children and give them opportunities to experiment with materials they may not have at home, it will also teach them valuable life skills. Students will learn by doing, and they’ll learn that they occasionally have to try several times before they achieve a desired result. In short, they’ll learn persistence.

Your donations will provide materials that will make the library’s maker space (Creation Station) a well-stocked, diverse place for students to try their hand at a wide variety of activities.

One week, they may experiment with electronics with LittleBits. Another time they may learn how to fashion a wallet or bracelet with duct tape. Future engineers may build with Lego or discover the hidden possibilities in a simple piece of paper through origami.

Mrs. Clark
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
littleBits Electronics Base Kit • Amazon Business $99.00 1 $99.00
Joylabz Makey Makey An Invention for Everyone Science Kit • Amazon Business $49.95 1 $49.95
Lego Sort and Store • Amazon Business $39.55 1 $39.55
LEGO Classic Medium Creative Brick Box • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
LEGO Green Baseplate 626 (10" x 10") Set of 4 • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
10 Rolls Duck Duct Tape Patterns Colored Designs 1.88" x 30' Paris Dill Pickle • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
18 Roll Variety Pack of Bazic Print and Solid Colors (brights and regular colors) of All Purpose Duct Tape • Amazon Business $23.20 1 $23.20
InterDesign Cameo Shower Curtain Tension Rod, Matte Black, 26-42 Inch • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
LEGO Juniors 10667 Construction • Amazon Business $14.58 1 $14.58
The LEGO Ideas Book • Amazon Business $14.07 1 $14.07
Jumbo Origami Paper Pack: 300 Sheets of Origami Paper Plus Basic Fold Instructions • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Sylvia's Super-Awesome Project Book: Super-Simple Arduino (Volume 2) • Amazon Business $12.65 1 $12.65
Akro-Mils 09185 BLUE Plastic Tote Caddy, 14-Inch by 18-Inch by 9-Inch, Blue • Amazon Business $12.63 1 $12.63
ALEX Toys Craft Duct Tape Bangles • Amazon Business $12.17 1 $12.17
Kassa Wall Sticker Chalkboard Contact Paper (Black) - 5 Colored Chalks and Eraser Cloth Included - Blackboard Measures 18 Inches by 6 Feet • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Star Wars Origami: 36 Amazing Paper-folding Projects from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... • Amazon Business $9.91 1 $9.91
A Kid's Guide to Awesome Duct Tape Projects: How to Make Your Own Wallets, Bags, Flowers, Hats, and Much, Much More! • Amazon Business $9.71 1 $9.71
LEGO Classic Sand Baseplate • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Duck Brand 284081 Licensed Duct Tape, Minions, 1.88 Inches x 10 Yards, Single Roll • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Easy Origami Animals • Amazon Business $4.95 1 $4.95

Materials cost

$438.75

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$475.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.88

Total project goal

$559.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$559.21

9 Donors

-$360.00

Donations toward project cost

-$306.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.00

match offer

-$199.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$169.33

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.88

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$0.00

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