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Coach Meeks from Tulsa OK is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Soar Into Your New Legacy!

Help me give my students the ability to successfully implement the technology, promote the SOAR model. Also, introducing new technology that can be used for several critical needs.

  • 8 donors
  • $1,106 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

Drones and robots have incredibly wide-ranging uses.

The sooner our children can engage with the technology, the better equipped they will be to innovate with it into the future.

Drones are NOT going to be a flash in the pan technology. Instead, they are going to bring on the next wave of ‘jobs you haven’t thought of’ as our primary school students of today enter the workforce of 2030.

But remember, bringing a drone into your school and classroom is not just about teaching students to become drone pilots!

It’s not even about the drone — the drone is just the tool to be able to teach those essential skills of problem-solving, digital competence, coding, and creativity. Drones are naturally fun and fascinating, so they keep students engaged. Drones can go where humans can’t, building that natural curiosity in kids

Examples of: USING DRONES IN THE CURRICULUM

In the spirit of SOAR, here are some suggestions for how to implement this technology.

Math: Create a gigantic graph. I spoke to Jim Bentley, a middle school teacher and a Buck Institute for Education national faculty member who has recently seen the value in using his new school drone to teach math. He told me, “Filmmaking is a key ingredient in our classroom. We recently obtained a drone to capture aerial footage for films we produce in conjunction with our city’s integrated waste department. But I realized that if we built a large four-quadrant graph on the playground with chalk, we could also use our drone to practice landing on different ordered pairs. With a drone, the sky’s the limit for what we could learn.”

Science: Look at the micro world and the macro world and the patterns repeated in each.

Coach Meeks
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DJI - Avata Explorer Combo Drone with Motion Controller (Goggles Integra and RC Motion 2) - Gray • Best Buy Education $829.99 1 $829.99

Materials cost

$829.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $67.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$940.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$165.90

Total project goal

$1,105.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,105.98

7 Donors

-$680.98

Donations toward project cost

-$578.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$102.15

match offer

-$425.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$361.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.75

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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