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Ms. Baker from Salt Lake City UT is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Simple Machines

My students need an Introduction to Simple Machines Kit.

  • $412 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Exploring scientific principles should be through safely planned discovery with hands-on materials. Simple machines are fun and exciting to play with. Kids learn and remember more when they have fun materials to interact with. This kit would provide interactive opportunities.

We are a third-grade class in Utah.

There are many students who are new to this country this year and are just learning English. Many countries are represented in our class. We are in a public school and have a dual-immersion class for students who want to learn Spanish and English.

My Project

This kit is designed for large classrooms such as ours. There are materials for all the students to be able to build and create their own simple machines. The kit has activities which safely show different principles about force and motion. We will use pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wheels and axles, wedges and levers. Students will learn how using simple machines can change to load and make movement easier.

Learning about "work" (and loads and gravity and force .

. .) should be fun. Being able to discover and share real information is invaluable to learning and understanding. Right now I can only afford to show the students examples of a simple machine. This kit would allow them to experience how machines can help.

Ms. Baker
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina Introduction to Simple Machines Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $286.90 1 $286.90

Materials cost

$286.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.69

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$349.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.75

Total project goal

$411.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $411.64

5 Donors

-$204.05

Donations toward project cost

-$174.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.11

match offer

-$205.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$174.95

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.87

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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