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Ms. Okihara from Los Angeles, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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STEAMming with Cricut Creations

Help me give my students a Cricut Maker with tools for media design and creation!

  • $455 goal

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My Students

My students are part of the modern media communications magnet program. We specialize in integrating 21st-century skills within our math and science curriculum. One project we are working on is kid blogging and publishing student work into text.

Please support my class to become 21st-century learners and leaders!

My Project

Part of my vision as a media arts teacher is instilling global communicators through skill based curriculum within the media community. My current students have recently expressed interest in graphic design, computer programming, and entrepreneurship.

I would like to develop my elective blogging class as a hub for teaching 21st century entrepreneurship skills- including; blogging, vlogging marketing, product review, product production, and customer service.

The Cricut machine would be used to help create an interdisciplinary unit on STEM- involving science, technology, engineering and math. Students would design a logo or brand using mathematical standards like proportional relationships and ratios. They would also use math skills like measurement to enlarge, or shrink image designs.

Once their blueprint is created students would then use technology to create their draft into a graphic print. This print would be edits, resized, shaped and perfected using the engineering process of trial and error.

The tools being bought would allow the students to cut and shape their logo as a sticker. This sticker would be their logo for their blogging website and can be used on water bottles, t-shirts, mugs... anything! The vinyl sheets will be used for students to use to create colorful logos (stickers) without feeling constrained to one color products when designing.

Creativity is KEY to this project. Student choice, freedom and craft will help students gain a better understanding to the STEM process, and 6th grade benchmarks in both math and science! Entrepreneurship is also another skill students will learn as they begin to elevate their logo and design.

Ms. Okihara
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cricut Maker, Rose with Basic Tool Set, Core Colors and Premium Vinyl - Permanent, 12” x 12” Adhesive Decal Sheets Brights Sampler • Amazon Business $322.28 1 $322.28

Materials cost

$322.28

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$386.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.22

Total project goal

$454.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $454.82

4 Donors

-$226.53

Donations toward project cost

-$194.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.48

match offer

-$226.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$192.55

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.98

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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