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

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Makey Makey Makes Me Marvelous, Part 4!

Help me give my students TPT gift cards, Makey Makey Coding Kits, Chibitronics LED circuit stickers, graph index cards/sticky notes, craft sticks, heavy-duty hole punchers, and aluminum tape to engineer and code with 4th grade geometry.

  • $1,000 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 will provide some excellent coding and geometry projects during this second half of the school year. This project will benefit 62 fourth graders.

We will use the Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) gift cards to purchase lessons/projects focusing on 4th grade geometry standards, such as classifying quadrilaterals and triangles, measuring angles, or classifying polygons by their attributes.

Once our mathematicians complete these lessons, they will be designing interactive posters with the graph index cards, aluminum tape, craft sticks, and Chibitronics LED circuit stickers. They will use our Chibitronics Chibi Chip Microcontrollers and Makey Makey Invention Kits to code information on the interactive posters and geometric models. 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 put it to use with our geometry unit!

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

Ms. Gil Taft Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Gil

Redwood City, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers • Teachers Pay Teachers $100.00 2 $200.00
Makey Makey STEM Kit from JoyLabz - Hands-on Technology Learning Fun - Science Education - 1000s of Engineering and Computer Coding Activities • Amazon Business $49.95 3 $149.85
Chibitronics Circuit Stickers - 10 Red, 10 Yellow, 10 Blue Megapack • Amazon Business $35.00 4 $140.00
Crop-A-DI POWR Punch .25" Hole • Amazon Business $15.99 3 $47.97
HP 32XL | Ink Bottle | Black | Up to 6000 pages per bottle| Works with HP Smart Tank Plus 651 and HP Smart Tank Plus 551 | 1VV24AN • Amazon Business $17.89 2 $35.78
Pepy Aero Graphite Professional Drawing Pencils - Set of 12 6B Pre-Sharpened Black Lead Pencils; Perfect for Drawing, Sketching and Shading, Graphic and Fine Art • Amazon Business $9.65 3 $28.95
Okllen 1000 Pack Colored Craft Sticks, 6 Inch Wooden Popsicle Sticks, Ice Pop Ice Cream Sticks Jumbo Wood Sticks for Kids' Art, DIY Projects, Home Classroom Craft Supplies • Amazon Business $23.39 1 $23.39
(10 Pad) Lined Grid Sticky Notes, 6x6 Inch, 360 Sheets Self-Stick Notes, Easy to Post for School, Office, Notebook, 10 Bright Assorted Colors/Pack • Amazon Business $22.98 1 $22.98
Glitter Cardstock 100 Sheets, 8.5” x 11” Cardstock Paper - 20 Assorted Colors, 250 GSM Card stock Glitter Paper Sparkly Paper for DIY Crafts, Cricut, Scrapbooking, Card Making • Amazon Business $22.98 1 $22.98
Aluminum Foil Tape for HVAC & Insulation — 3 Pack — Extra Thick 3.6 Mil Silver Metal Duct Tape — 2 Inch x 225 Total Feet — Heat Resistant, Waterproof & Professional Grade Tape for Ductwork • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Kraftex Copper Tape Conductive Adhesive [1 Inch x 66ft] Copper Foil Tape for EMI Shielding Barrier, Guitar Cavity, Electrical Conductive for Soldering, Stained Glass, and More • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
Copper Tape, Copper Foil Tape Kirecoo (2inch X 33 FT) Copper Foil with Conductive Adhesive for Guitar, EMI Shielding, Crafts, Electrical Repairs and Grounding • Amazon Business $9.29 2 $18.58
Tecmisse 600 Sheets Graph Ruled Index Cards, 3 x 5 Inches Color Index Cards, Study Cards and Note Cards for School Learning, Home and Offices, 6 Colors • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
18pc Precision Utility Craft Knife Set - Premium Hobby Knife Cutting Tool with Sharp Blades for Architectural Models, Carving Pumpkins / Stencils, Paper / Leather/vinyl Crafts, Miniatures by Bovulo • Amazon Business $9.97 1 $9.97
Reynolds Wrap Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil, 50 Square Feet (Packaging May Vary) • Amazon Business $4.48 1 $4.48

Materials cost

$757.39

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$51.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$849.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.96

Total project goal

$999.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$999.71

2 Donors

-$499.86

Donations toward project cost

-$424.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.98

match offer

-$499.85

Match offer toward project cost

-$424.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.98

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