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Mrs. Wilson from Scottsdale AZ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Empathy Project: It's Sew Good

Help me give my students sewing machines to create stuffed animals for charities.

  • $470 goal

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My Students

As a teacher, I am lucky to serve special needs to gifted fifth-grade students in Arizona. We are a Title I community serving students who are financially struggling, but also students whose parents see our school as a real-world learning environment. The community is as diverse as the needs of our world today.

Our students engage in multidisciplinary projects in teams to collect data, synthesize, design, build and rebuild, all while learning the key learning standards for fifth grade.

If you visited my classroom or toured our school, you would see all the classrooms organized in cooperative learning groups. Students pair up with their face partners and should partners daily. Students engaged in explaining their thinking happens in every learning experience.

I work on a team of three to develop lessons and facilitate learning for students in our STEAM Design Academy. We are teaching our students to be college and career ready, starting at preschool. We're not training them for sixth grade. We're training them for life as scholars and future professionals.

My Project

As a fifth grade team, we teach persuasive writing. Our students needed a new way to write persuasively about something they were passionate about. The empathy project was born as a result.

Our empathy project has morphed into a much bigger project where students are researching, writing, voting, deciding, creating patterns, sewing, and donating to those in need.

It's an incredible opportunity to go beyond the classroom. Students start by researching a charity and finally writing a persuasive essay about the importance of supporting this charity. Once done, they create patterns for their custom stuffed animal that will be created and ultimately donated to the winning charity.

This pulls in the democratic process as well and makes the perfect STEAM project for our STEAM design academy.

Students need more sewing machines to successfully and more efficiently create for others. We are currently working with two sewing machines for nearly 70 students and could use more to make the process run more smoothly.

Mrs. Wilson
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brother Sewing Machine, XM2701, Lightweight Sewing Machine with 27 Stitches, 1-Step Auto-Size Buttonholer, 6 Sewing Feet, Free Arm and Instructional DVD • Amazon Business $85.00 4 $340.00

Materials cost

$340.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $24.31

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$399.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.48

Total project goal

$469.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $469.89

2 Donors

-$469.89

Donations toward project cost

-$399.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.48

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