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Ms. Gil from Redwood City, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engineering and Coding With Words, Part 2!

Help me give my students Word Kits, Makey Makey Engineering and Coding Kits, Lakeshore Journals, and cardstock to code with words!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Gil's classroom raised $966

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

My fourth-grade scholars are always motivated to learn, especially with hands-on resources! They are also inquisitive, hard workers, and quite humorous. (We laugh a lot throughout the day!) When challenges arise, and every day they do, we persevere and humor (and sometimes a quick, little dance) is always part of it! Your contributions to this request will foster such an environment, and provide a fantastic integration of physical computing and engineering with words.

The HD Word Kits have color-coded tiles to support students with their reading, spelling, and phonemic awareness.

My readers will be manipulating these colored tiles, along with letter tiles and magnetic boards, and once they have mastered specific word patterns, they will be ready to start engineering and coding with them! They will use our Chibitronics Chibi Chip Microcontrollers and Makey Makey Invention Kits to code information on interactive posters and even create games with them. They will use conductive materials (graphite pencils, paper clips, metal brads, aluminum and copper tape, and LED circuit stickers) to code their interactive posters. The Lakeshore journals will also be used to code information gathered from the reading. Furthermore, last week I completed a Makey Makey Teacher Development Course, and I learned additional ways to implement physical computing in any core subject. Your donations will support these efforts, and I can't wait to integrate it into our reading/spelling lessons!

Please accept my scholars' gratitude in advance for helping them enjoy and demonstrate their learning through hands-on and computer science integration when reading and spelling.

Ms. Gil Taft Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Redwood City, CA View local requests

More than half of 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

31 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DD818 - Reading Comprehension Daily Practice Journal - Gr 3-4 - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $48.99 3 $146.97
DD956 - Correct the Sentence Daily Journal - Gr 3-4 - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $46.99 3 $140.97
HD Word Student Kit • www.reallygreatreading.com $70.00 2 $140.00
GG125 - Vocabulary Journal - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $42.99 3 $128.97
Makey Makey STEM Kit from JoyLabz - Hands-on Technology Learning Fun - Science Education - 1000s of Engineering and Computer Coding Activities • Amazon Business $49.95 2 $99.90
HD Word Student Workbook Set, Essentials (Grades 5-8) • www.reallygreatreading.com $21.00 1 $21.00
Astrobrights Cardstock Paper 65 lbs 8.5 x 11 Assorted Colors 250/Pack (21004) • Staples $19.07 1 $19.07

Materials cost

$696.88

Vendor shipping charges

 $19.32

Sales tax

 $63.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$820.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.78

Total project goal

$965.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $965.19

2 Donors

-$471.56

Donations toward project cost

-$419.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.98

match offer

-$471.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$400.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.06

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