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Ms. Valdez from Tucson, AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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If We Build It We'll Learn Engineering Skills

Help me give my students Magna-Tiles, magnetic design kits, gears, and more.

  • $877 goal

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Ms. Valdez has another project! Donate to Wooden Blocks To Develop Non-Wooden Social Interactions to help her classroom.

$767 - complete this project and be a hero
Help Ms. Valdez

Ms. Valdez has another project! Donate to Wooden Blocks To Develop Non-Wooden Social Interactions to help her classroom.

$767 - complete this project and be a hero

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

1st graders have the natural instincts of curiosity, creativity, they're open to challenges to build something that will work. If they have the wonderful construction resources / building materials readily available they can venture into the engineering design process to achieve their goal as a STEM team; Design, Create, Function. These hands-on materials will provide endless hours of innovating decisions, planning, designing, teamwork, problem solvers, therefore making confident leaders. A classroom filled with collaboration, conversations, problem solving and most importantly- laughter of hardworking students enjoying the entire learning process.

Ms. Valdez Mary Belle McCorkle Academy Excel Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Tucson, AZ View local requests

More than half of 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

40 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA583 - Stand-Up Magnetic Design Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 2 $358.00
DG547 - Magna-Tiles<sup>&reg;</sup> - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 1 $129.99
LL570 - Engineer-A-Coaster Activity Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 2 $99.98
DD939 - Turn Learn Magnetic Gears • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 2 $69.98

Materials cost

$657.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $47.04

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$744.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$131.45

Total project goal

$876.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $876.31

1 Donor

-$438.16

Donations toward project cost

-$372.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.72

match offer

-$438.14

Match offer toward project cost

-$372.42

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.72

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 $0.00

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