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Mr. Shomaker from Clinton MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Animating History with Makey Makeys

My students need 5 Makey Makey kits to invent, create, and do 21st century hands-on history in our new History Lab course.

  • $334 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Just because you're not a science teacher doesn't mean you can't be a mad scientist! In my history classroom we hypothesize, experiment, create, innovate, build, deconstruct, and learn not only the what of American History, but the how as well.

My students are largely from low-income families.

We have a significant free and reduced lunch rate and, because we are about an hour from a major city, we have many transient students or students that are here because they found trouble in the city or they weren't wanted. We've got a great staff with big hearts that want to help give these kids a proper education and are willing to try new ways of teaching to accomplish that goal.

My Project

Although we often take for granted the amount of technology available to American children, many of our low-income students do not have much access to 21st century tools outside of the school building. By offering our new History Lab course, we will be able to combine the core subject area of history with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the applied sciences. Students will use these Makey Makey kits to do things like learning about the Industrial Revolution through the inventions that changed society while making their own 21st century inventions.

By donating to this project, you are helping bring the 21st century into core disciplines like history, putting technology into the hands of kids who don't often get to "play" with these kinds 21st century tools, and helping spark creativity.

Mr. Shomaker
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Makey Makey - An Invention Kit for Everyone • Amazon Business $49.95 5 $249.75

Materials cost

$249.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$283.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.03

Total project goal

$333.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $333.53

1 Donor

-$333.53

Donations toward project cost

-$283.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.03

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 $0.00

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