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Ms. Gilles from Brooklyn NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

STEM Class with Makey Makey

Help me give my students Makey Makey kits to investigate how the sense of touch can be used to manipulate various inputs.

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The goal of this lesson is to use the Makey Makey hardware and hot plate to help conduct a lesson about the body's integumentary system and sensory neurons. The Makey Makey scratch app will help the students to learn coding. Students will learn 21 century skill and critical thinking skills in order to construct an algorithm. They will think creatively, by building and scaffolding on more complex unit. In terms of the body system unit, they can overlay a skin cell with receptors. They can plug the Makey Makey where the hair follicles are located. Through this response, the skin cell can shiver by connecting to one circuit, the skin cell can sweat by connecting to another circuit.

Ms. Gilles
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Makey Makey STEM Kit from Joylabz, Educational Science Kits, 1000s of Engineering and Computer Coding Activities, Hands-on Technology Learning Fun, Engineering Kits for Kids, STEM Kits • Amazon Business $49.95 2 $99.90
Fuming Hot Plate • Carolina Biological Supply Company $26.10 1 $26.10

Materials cost

$126.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$167.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.62

Total project goal

$197.46

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 $197.46

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