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

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Growing a Maker Mindset

Help me give my students STEM kits for tinkering and growing their Maker Mindset!

  • $957 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

We are a neighborhood school serving the community since l927. In addition to general education students, our students represent 23 language groups, many of them English language learners, and students with special needs. Our mission is to develop joyful learners by providing them with support, encouragement, and opportunities for challenge.

Our students are enthusiastic learners who thrive on creativity and being challenged!

They are motivated by high-interest level curriculum and hands-on learning opportunities. They also love being able to explore, create new things, and are highly motivated by student centered learning. We are always looking for ways to provide them with tools that will help them maximize their potential.

My Project

Children are often given very scripted instructions for assignments and look for that one right answer to a problem. I would like to provide them with opportunities to create and problem solve without feeling they need to have that one right answer.

Tinkering gives kids experience working with open-ended projects, goal-directed but unscripted, that require active hands and active minds.

Through tinkering, kids can build anything, and through building, learn anything.

These tinkering labs align with many of the Next Generation Science Standards. They provide an engaging, hands-on method to bring these standards to life and enable a deeper understanding of the core disciplines.

Ms. Tong
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Tinkering Labs Electric Motors Catalyst STEM Kit | Intro to Engineering, Robotics, Circuit Building Projects for Kids and Teens | DIY Science Experiments Using Real Motors, Real Hardware, Real Wood • Amazon Business $59.00 12 $708.00

Materials cost

$708.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $64.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$813.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.54

Total project goal

$956.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $956.94

6 Donors

-$739.29

Donations toward project cost

-$643.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$95.89

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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