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Ms. Hoffman from Los Angeles, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Race Towards Science

My students need hands-on experiences to understand scientific principles by making and modifying stem race cars my students will race to success.

  • $198 goal

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My Students

I teach learning-disabled students. They have a variety of disabilities which include autism, severely emotionally disturbed, learning-disabilities and epilepsy. My school is a Title I school and some of my students are bused into our school.

My learning-disabled students have a variety of disabilities and they come from every ethnic and social-economic background.

They are loving and caring students that need extra help and assistance in order to achieve their highest potential.

Helping them get back into regular classes and graduate is my most important goal. Below is a picture of me and one of my graduating students.

My Project

Students with disabilities need materials that ignite their excitement toward learning. The STEM cars that I am requesting for forty-five of my students will provide access to hands-on learning that will make the scientific concepts of force and motion understandable to my students and will encourage them to see and feel things beyond book learning.

By being able to modify and enhance the performance of their individual stem balloon cars, that my special students will later race, they will not only learn the relationship of mass, acceleration, friction, inertia, and centripetal force, but they will also have something to keep and remind them of their day at the science terrific races.

Then the scientific race is on! Students will compete against each other to see whose car goes the fastest, and whose car goes the farthest. The top award will go to the student who is able to state what modifications made the difference. The cars are propelled by balloons, thus students will be experimenting with the mass of the car, the wheels shape, the size of the balloons and the amount of air they will need to "win" the race.

Ms. Hoffman
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT571 - Design & Play STEAM Cars Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 5 $124.95

Materials cost

$124.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $11.43

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$168.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.69

Total project goal

$197.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $197.94

1 Donor

-$98.96

Donations toward project cost

-$84.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.84

match offer

-$98.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$84.13

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.85

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