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Mr. Akerson from Albany, GA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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LEGOS - Fostering Creativity & Creation

My students need the opportunity to create and build. LEGO kits provide an outlet where my students can demonstrate their creativity.

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My Students

In the third grade, the common mantra is that we are moving students from learning to read to reading to learn. Approximately 97% of students at our southwestern Georgia public school receive free and reduced lunch. We have many struggles associated with poverty-entrenched schools: high absent rates, lower academic achievement compared to nationally set benchmarks. However, the fantastic faculty and staff of our 400-odd student body ensures that they receive rigorous academic content and a safe learning environment.

While we accomplish daily learning objectives, I hope to teach my students choices matter.

My twenty-three students love to learn. The learning process involves decisions, and what my students choose to do and think affects their lives. I would hate to not expose my students to all of the various choices they can make.

My students hold innate potential. Receiving exposure to novel experiences will allow them to realize their own possibilities.

My Project

In class, I work to not only provide negative consequences to students but to give positive consequences, too. Like many of us, students like to work for positive consequences - extra time outside, a fruit snack or time with LEGOS - among other reinforcements. These LEGOS will add to my repertoire of possible positive consequences.

Students will show their creativity with LEGOS.

Because there is not a set instruction booklet, students will have time to create, which is the highest level in the depth of knowledge hierarchy. Encouraging and making space for this type of hands-on learning is important. Students can initiate and construct LEGO projects. Problems may need tweaking, and the adjustments will nurture critical thinking. As students play with the LEGOS, they will learn how to take turns and play cooperatively. When disagreements arise over LEGOS, I hope to teach students how to empathize with one another and how to take turns fairly.

Because my students come from predominantly low-income neighborhoods, they do not have as much access to these types of toys or experiences. Providing LEGOS in the classroom is a way to positively reinforce positive and kind behavior, to increase students' depth of thinking, and to teach empathetic behavior.

Mr. Akerson Alice Coachman Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Albany, GA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEGO Classic Medium Creative Brick Box 10696 • Amazon Business $27.99 4 $111.96
LEGO Classic Green Baseplate Supplement • Amazon Business $6.39 2 $12.78
LEGO Classic Gray Baseplate 10701 • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
LEGO Classic Sand Baseplate • Amazon Business $6.33 1 $6.33

Materials cost

$143.06

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$185.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.66

Total project goal

$217.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $217.74

4 Donors

-$200.09

Donations toward project cost

-$172.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.76

match offer

-$15.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$12.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

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 $0.00

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