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Ms. Smith from Trinity, AL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Through STEM

My students need STEM activities to explore, design, create, and test materials. They need STEM science stations and Real-World STEM science stations to provide them materials and challenges when working in science centers and groups.

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My Students

My students are ready and eager to learn. We are a Title 1 school with 100% free and reduced lunch. Our students come from a rural community with parents who want them to succeed and the best for them in life. My students are in 1st grade.

We enjoy learning in a nontraditional environment and using technology to explore the world around us.

My students are excited and need more hands-on materials. My students are amazing and do more with less than other counties around us. Who knows where they will be in 20 years!

My Project

STEM is the bridge between students who struggle with traditional teaching methods and those who learn in a more concrete hands-on way. Students who struggle in the classroom with reading and math typically excel in STEM activities. The confidence these activities give my students helps boost their self-esteem and their willingness to keep trying in other subjects.

But they are just 6- and 7-year-olds, I say they can do AMAZING things!

Stand back and watch when they are engaged in a creative thinking task. The problems solving and critical thinking necessary for STEM stations is helpful to students as they go through all grades in school, but especially the lower grades.

These hands-on STEM challenges are just what my students need to explore how things work and to build their curiosity for the world around them. The Real world STEM challenge kit will allow students to explore solving real-world problems by building a bridge for a gap in a road, stopping a flash flood from hitting a home, and saving a teddy bear from a well. The STEM science kit will allow students to explore magnets, motion, and properties of objects. Students will plan, design, test, and reassess their creation in each center.

Students will work in pairs to solve the problems presented to them like real engineers. In our classroom, we make real-world connections and these STEM kits will provide my students with the materials they need to learn more about engineering.

Thank you for considering a donation to my classroom.

Ms. Smith East Lawrence Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP908 - Real-World STEM Challenge Kit - Gr. 2-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
TT155X - STEM Science Stations - K-Gr. 1 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $145.00 1 $145.00
LL570 - Engineer-A-Coaster Activity Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP777 - Create-A-Path Magnetic Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99

Materials cost

$393.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$462.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.53

Total project goal

$543.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $543.53

1 Donor

-$543.53

Donations toward project cost

-$462.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.53

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 $0.00

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