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Mrs. Johnson from Red Wing MN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Our Way to Teamwork and Grit

Help me give my students a way to practice teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking skills while building a love for STEAM-related learning activities.

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Students need to practice failure in order to be able to succeed. Failure teaches us to evaluate our plan and make a better one. Failure teaches us to think critically along the path to a solution. Building materials like Magna Tiles provide students with a fun, engaging, low stakes, low stress way of experiencing failure and building perseverance. These tiles can be made into so many different things, but there is often an order or direction in which the tiles need to be positioned in order for the design to work. Magna Tiles also have a tendency to collapse under too much pressure, which means students have to be able to deal with frustration and keep going. By using Magna Tiles, I believe my Kindergarten students will be able to build some of the skills they will need to help them persevere in the upper grades when content becomes more challenging.

Mrs. Johnson
Never Before Funded Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Magna-Tiles® - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 2 $259.98
Magna-Tiles Downhill Duo - 40 Piece Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $84.56 1 $84.56
Magna-Tiles Builder Set with Crane - 32 Piece Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $58.46 1 $58.46
Magna-Tiles Xtra Roads - 12 Piece Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $35.96 1 $35.96
Magna-Tiles® Polygon Expansion Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$458.95

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.97

Total project goal

$599.80

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Total project goal

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 $599.80

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