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Ms. Kribbs from Chicago IL is requesting a classroom visitor through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Discovering Force, Motion and Simple Machines by Creating Roller Coasters!

The cost of workshops provided by the Chicago Children's Museum To Go is $584, including <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $584 goal

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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.

"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." - Roger Lewin This year, my mini-scientists will begin studying force, motion, simple machines, momentum and gravity. We have a textbook that does an excellent job of defining all the relevant terms, but we all know that the times in our lives where we really understood something scientifically occurred when we dove in and discovered it ourselves. I still remember building a toothpick bridge in fourth grade and hanging weights from it. I learned more that day about force, supports and suspension than I probably ever learned again. I want my students to experience science in that same hands on, exciting way. The Chicago Children's Museum has a student workshop called the "Coaster Challenge". The museum brings the exhibit to your school, and students work in cooperative groups to complete a roller coaster track. While doing this, students discover the physics of simple machines by exploring force and motion, gravity, friction, and momentum. As an added bonus, they get valuable practice working in teams. I can't express how excited my students would be to do this. Even the word roller coaster is thrilling to them. Please help me make Science exciting and give my students the opportunity to develop self-confidence as independent learners who can discover knowledge rather than just sit back and receive it.

Ms. Kribbs
Grades PreK-2

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Visitor Total
Chicago Children's Museum To Go (Facilitators from the Museum will come to the school and work with three second grade classes for one hour each. Students will discover the physics of simple machines by exploring force and motion, gravity, friction, momentum and more, while working in teams to complete a roller coaster track. ) $450.00

Visitor cost

$450.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$478.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$105.08

Total project goal

$583.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $583.76

4 Donors

-$563.15

Donations toward project cost

-$478.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.61

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 $0.00

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