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Mrs. Persaud from Brooklyn NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Simple Things

My students need 4 sets of assorted activities with gears, levels, and pulleys.

  • $611 goal

This project expired on September 3, 2011.

This project expired on September 3, 2011.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

With all the technology available, most student have no idea how the simplest things work. They have no experience with actually seeing how machines work or put together. This challenge is detrimental to these children's growth amongst emerging technologies.

My students need to learn how to actually build simple machines like pulleys, levers, wedges, wheels, gears, and inclined planes with a Simple Machine Kit, and K'Nex gears and levers.

Experimenting with machine parts for simple machines will help them to learn about more complex machines. This will give them a competitive advantage over their peers.

My Project

Simple machines will give my students experiences and knowledge. In the classroom, it is very important to have hands on training and learning, rather than just reading and lectures. Being able to build simple machines will give them a sense of accomplishment and show them first hand how certain things work.

Being an inner city child, working with simple machines hands-on will provide these students with a sense of accomplishment and will show them how things work in reality.

Instead of having these things explained, they can see how it works by creating it themselves.

Mrs. Persaud
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SIMPLE MACHINES KIT EA • Frey Scientific, Inc. $186.25 1 $186.25
78630 K'NEX GEARS-INDIV SET ST • Frey Scientific, Inc. $41.98 1 $41.98
78610 K'NEX LEVERS & PULLEYS ST • Frey Scientific, Inc. $35.95 1 $35.95
CPO EQUIP GEARS&LEVERS • Frey Scientific, Inc. $162.00 1 $162.00

Materials cost

$426.18

Vendor shipping charges

$51.14

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$518.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.54

Total project goal

$610.25

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