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Mrs. Wanke from Pecatonica IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Science, It's in the Bag!

My students need manipulatives for our science discovery bags. Items like a tornado weather lab, an anemometer, flower cross-section and other items to foster learning.

  • $253 goal

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My Students

The next scientist is sitting in my classroom! I want to foster and encourage my students' love for science by allowing them time to discover, explore, and observe.

I have 17 energetic, creative, and curious first graders.

They have an enormous appetite for learning. I teach in a small rural farming town. With $500,000 homes in one part of our district, and Section 8 housing in another, economic diversity is the reality in our community.

My Project

Students bring home a science bag filled with books, manipulatives, and tools for discovery. Students are allowed to keep the bag for a week. After they have used the bag, they journal their experience and return the bag. Currently I have 7 science bags. Each bag has a different topic. (insects, weather, rocks and minerals, magnets, life cycles, plants and oceans) I would like to get more materials to add to these bags to make them more interactive and maximize the learning potential. With your donation to my project, I will be able to add a tornado weather lab, an anemometer for students to measure the wind speed, an indoor/outdoor digital thermometer, flower cross-section model, a frog life-cycle model, and a life-cycle game.

I hope that this project inspires my students to research, discover, and take ownership over their own learning.

I hope that these bags will help inspire the next great scientist. I also hope to help families feel like they are a part of their child's school experience.

Mrs. Wanke
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bill Nye The Science Guy: Earth's Seasons • Amazon $29.95 1 $29.95
Bill Nye The Science Guy: Life Cycles • Amazon $29.95 1 $29.95
ETA hand2mind Frog Life Cycle Model • Amazon $26.74 1 $26.74
Discovery Kids Extreme Weather Tornado Lab • Amazon $19.95 1 $19.95
Ambient Weather WS-0211 Wireless Indoor & Outdoor Digital Thermometer for Kids of All Ages • Amazon $18.99 1 $18.99
Learning Resources Crosssection Flower Model • Amazon $18.99 1 $18.99
Learning Resources Let's Grow! A Life Cycles Game • Amazon $15.36 1 $15.36
The Magic School Bus: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! • Amazon $11.29 1 $11.29
Tornadoes! • Amazon $7.15 1 $7.15

Materials cost

$178.37

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$215.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.95

Total project goal

$252.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $252.99

4 Donors

-$123.49

Donations toward project cost

-$107.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.97

match offer

-$126.49

Match offer toward project cost

-$107.52

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.00

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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