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Mr. Wagner from Union City, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Wagner's classroom raised $533

Balloon Building and Buoyancy!

My students need lots of glue sticks and colored tissue paper (20"x30" sheets) to build working hot air balloons which we'll launch at the end of our buoyancy unit!

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Mr. Wagner Itliong Vera Cruz Middle School
Union City, CA Grades 6-8

My Students

Density and buoyancy are difficult concepts for many eighth-graders to understand... but a memorable, hands-on experience really helps! Please help me provide my kids with the opportunity to see and feel buoyancy in action by building and launching five-foot-tall hot air balloons!

We are a middle school in California.

Our students are ethnically, linguistically, and economically diverse. Many of them are first- or second-generation Americans. Many came here because their parents knew that they wouldn't have educational opportunities in their home countries. Our students are bright, sweet, and eager. You can help provide them with an educational and exciting experience.

My Project

In order to build hot air balloons, each student group will need lots of tissue paper and glue sticks, as well as building patterns and instructions that we have already prepared. With these materials, students will work in groups to build hot air balloons almost two meters tall and about four meters in circumference. At the end of the unit, we'll use a heat source to actually launch the balloons from our school patio... students will actually feel the upward tug of buoyancy on their balloons as they fill with hot air, and then watch their creations take to the sky. It's a terrific project that helps students better understand the difficult topic of buoyancy, while also incorporating important science ideas like heat, atomic theory, and energy conversion.

This is a project I've done with students before.

It's always been successful and memorable. It's an experience that students mention years later as a special moment in their middle school experience. But it requires a lot of materials, and as our budget tightens, I don't want my students to miss this terrific opportunity. Please help us provide our kids with this wonderful learning project!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Half of students from low‑income households

450 students impacted 11 donors
Mr. Wagner Itliong Vera Cruz Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Union City, CA View local requests

Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

450 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
ELMERS GLUE/GLUE ALL .21OZ STICK • Blick Art Materials $0.48 200 $96.00
BLICK ART TISSUE/GRN APPLE 12X18 50SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/BLK 12X18 50/PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/BRN 12X18 50/SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/CERISE 12X18 50PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/DK PNK 12X18 50PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/GOLD 12X18 50/PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/HLLY GRN 12X18 50SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/LVNDR 12X18 50/SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/LT BLU 12X18 50/PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/LT PNK 12X18 50PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/ORG 12X18 50/SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/PRPL 12X18 50/SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/SCRLT 12X18 50PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/TURQ 12X18 50/SHT • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80
BLICK ART TISSUE/WHT 12X18 50/PK • Blick Art Materials $2.88 5 $14.40
BLICK ART TISSUE/YLW 12X18 50/PK • Blick Art Materials $3.56 5 $17.80

Materials cost

$377.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.53

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$452.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.87

Total project goal

$532.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $532.46

7 Donors

-$223.58

Donations toward project cost

-$204.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.08

Matching donations from our partners

-$291.87

Match offers toward project cost

-$248.09

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.78

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.01

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 $0.00

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