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Mr. Thomas from Champaign IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning About Insects With a Renaissance Artist

My insect woodcutting project needs 5 block printing presses and a supply of balsa wood.

  • $727 goal

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I teach art for grades Kindergarten through fifth grade. I teach in a half size classroom and am given $2.35 to spend per student and students increasingly need visual and kinesthetic way to learn about core subjects, so I try to support what they learn in the regular classroom with what I teach them in the art class.

Every year, the second grade classes begin by learning about insects with their classroom teachers. I'd like to teach them about Albrecht Durer, a High Renaissance artist, who had a deep interest in science and art and made many beautiful woodcut prints about animals.

I need five small printing presses and balsa wood to create a High Renaissance print shop in my classroom. The students will review the anatomy of insects that they learned in their regular classrooms. They will choose their favorite insect and carve into a piece of balsa wood with a pencil to make a wood cut that they can make prints with.

You will make it possible for students to learn science by doing a physical and artistic activity that reinforces what they have learned by reading and listening.

Mr. Thomas
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BALSA FOAM/PRINT BLOCK PKG 40 • Blick Art Materials $51.45 4 $205.80
SPEEDBALL LINO PRESS/6LB • Blick Art Materials $61.75 5 $308.75

Materials cost

$514.55

Vendor shipping charges

 $51.46

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$596.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$130.83

Total project goal

$726.83

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $726.83

4 Donors

-$726.83

Donations toward project cost

-$596.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$130.83

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