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Ms. Siegfried from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's Build a STEM Center

My students need a center with Gear Builders, Magnetic Builders, and Builders Blocks where they can engage in much needed hands-on play activities while learning how things work in the STEM subjects.

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My Students

The school at which I work is located in Brownsville, in Brooklyn, NY. I teach students who really like to come to school and enjoy learning. They clamor around to see the activities that I present and they share my excitement when we do projects. My students are challenged with severe cognitive disabilities, and many are on the spectrum. Most are minimally verbal or non-verbal, but appear to comprehend more than they can vocalize. The children are highly active, easily distracted, and enjoy hands-on activities to keep their attention and interest.

My Project

The center will include bins with a variety of building related objects that will encompass an applied approach to science, technology, engineering, and math concepts on the students’ levels. The students will learn while tinkering, building, and creating.

This STEM project will grant my students the opportunity to develop their early planning and designing abilities.

It will enhance their engineering skills while expanding their creativity levels, as the building materials can be combined and recombined in many different ways. Each of the various types of building items interlock in a different manner, and my students will strengthen their mathematical concepts of length, symmetry, and balance. The different shapes and various interlocking methods of the Slot-A-Shape and Gear Builders take block play to an increased level that requires more complex thinking. The students will attain problem-solving abilities in a more creative manner as they increase their mathematical and spatial skills. They will need to analyze the geometric shapes of the Interlocking Blocks and the Star Builders while forming larger, more advanced, geometric shapes.

During center time or after completing a task earlier than their peers, the children will be able to occupy their time with educational games and toys. They will utilize this center as a means to develop their interests as they actively affect their environment.

Ms. Siegfried PS K396 Sid Miller Academy Grades PreK-2

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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Brooklyn, NY 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

6 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT221 - Slot-A-Shape Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP846 - Lakeshore Gear Builders - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
Constructive Playthings Jumbo Magnetic Builders / 36 Pc. Set • Amazon Business $49.95 1 $49.95
TT125 - Star Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
TT127 - Gear Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
MICHLEY Interlocking Builders Blocks Play Set for Child • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98
DB251 - Playstix® • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Battat 50-Piece Bristle Block Bucket • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84

Materials cost

$295.72

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$330.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.26

Total project goal

$388.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $388.42

4 Donors

-$194.21

Donations toward project cost

-$165.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.13

match offer

-$194.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$165.08

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.13

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 $0.00

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