Help Provide Students With Autism Shoebox Tasks to Learn!
Help me give my students shoebox tasks to help them learn valuable skills.
$2,224 goal
This project expired on October 7, 2025.
This project expired on October 7, 2025.
My Project
Students with autism have many sensory needs and require support and strategies to help them calm and remain focused. I would like to provide them with shoebox activities as a way to help them calm down when they are in need.
Structured Shoebox activities answer four questions to help our students with autism.
How much work is there to do?
Tasks are located to the student’s left, within easy reach. The number of Tasks (at the discretion of the teacher) tells the student how much work there is to do.
What is the work?
The student knows what the work is by the visual structure of each Task.
When is the work finished?
When all the Tasks have been completed and placed in the finished basket, located to the student’s right.
What happens next?
Directly after the student has finished working, there is a toy, treat, or indication of where to go next.
Thank you so much for all your help in supporting our project
Nearly all 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
12 students impacted
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