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Ms. Hawley from Richmond, VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Create a Chain Reaction of Joy!

Help me give my students the ability to see a chain reaction using physical objects. I'm the STEAM teacher at my school and chain reactions promote perserverance in solving problems, trial and error and cause and effect.

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My Project

Being an inner city public elementary STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) teacher I see 500 students a week in kindergarten to fifth grade.

When my students arrive in my class each week they are excited to learn about what we are going to build/experiment/learn that day.

All of my lessons are hands-on and promote real world problem solving.

With the chain reaction kits all the materials required are contained in the kit, which makes them ready to use and valuable because I can use them year after year! I have purchased used kits on ebay to test out these materials to ascertain their effectiveness and I am amazed at how engaged students are in solving the problems. A variety of problems are proposed and must be worked out -- building perservence and a sense of accomplishment when students have solved the problem! Help me make my student engineers filled with joy when they are successful in creating their chain reactions!

Ms. Hawley Linwood Holton Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Richmond, VA View local requests

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

500 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP848 - Create-A-Chain Reaction STEM Kit - Gr 3-5 - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 6 $359.94
PP565 - Create-A-Chain Reaction STEM Kit - Pre K-Gr 2 - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99

Materials cost

$419.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$456.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.51

Total project goal

$536.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $536.74

4 Donors

-$339.09

Donations toward project cost

-$303.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.86

match offer

-$180.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$153.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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 $0.00

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