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Mrs. Martinez from Chicago, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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May It Be for the Bees

Help me give my students Bee-Bot programmable robots and bee stickers so that they can learn about pollination, how to save the bees, and about coding all at the same time.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Martinez's classroom raised $535

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 students are a bunch of fun, silly, and curious kids. They love science. This new school year will be the first time my students will be receiving a bilingual STEM enrichment class. In this class, my goal is to make my students creative thinkers and problem solvers. I will introduce a problem through a reading and then give students activities that will push them to design and build models that create solutions to them.

In my STEM class I want to make my students real world problem solvers.

The Bee-Bots will be used to create a simulation of what real bees do in the world. We will read books on what bees do, and also books on bees being an endangered species. Students will have to create flowers and a path to get to them by programming their Bee-Bots. If the Bee-Bot does not get to the flower to pollinate it then they have to program it all over again to improve it. I love this idea because they will be practicing the engineering process all throughout the activity.

Mrs. Martinez Monarcas Academy Grades PreK-2

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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.

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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

400 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BT363 - Bee-Bot<sup>&reg;</sup> Programmable Robot • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 4 $398.00
480 Pieces Spring Flower Stickers for Kids Self Adhesive Multicolored Flowers Honey Bee Stickers Teachers Plant Planner Scrapbooking Book Stickers for Easter Spring Theme Party Classroom (Cute Style) • Amazon Business $5.19 2 $10.38
Insect Bug Butterfly Scrapbook Stickers for Kids (10 Sheets) • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59

Materials cost

$417.97

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$454.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.16

Total project goal

$534.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$534.40

2 Donors

-$424.40

Donations toward project cost

-$360.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.66

match offer

-$110.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$93.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.50

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$0.00

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