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Mrs. Borders from Lakebay, WA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Aviation: The Physics of Flight

My students need a flight and rocketry kit, pipets, a flight DVD and stopwatches.

  • $598 goal

This project expired on September 2, 2008.

This project expired on September 2, 2008.

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Mrs. Borders Key Peninsula Middle School
Lakebay, WA Grades 6-8

I teach 6th and 8th grade science. I also teach an 8th grade Aerospace class. We are a NASA Explorer School and strive to use Aerospace as a tool to engage students in sciene and math.

My Aerospace students are anxious to study the physics of flight. We will use gliders to rockets and everything in between! However, budget cuts in our district are impacting our ability to purchase supplies.

When students are enagaged in hands-on activities, learning really takes off! The Aerospace investigations will allow my students to soar to infinity and beyond. We need a flight and rocketry kit, pipets, and stopwatches in order to study the physics of flight. Students will explore the fundamentals of flight by assembling and experimenting with a hangar full of flying machines. Before they "take off," students investigate the properties of air, especially that air exerts pressure. Then they build parachutes, kites, and hot-air balloons to demonstrate air resistance, wind speed and angle, and lighter-than-air flight. Paper airplane trials prove that shape determines flight path and duration. Next, students discover how the airfoil design of both fixed wings and helicopter rotors creates lift. They construct propeller-driven and simulated jet vehicles to explore plane power, and they learn to control flight by adding ailerons, elevators, and rudders to gliders. Students cap off the unit by building and launching fuel-powered model rockets.

You can support the next generation of Aerospace experts! My students will be future pilots, communications experts, rocket scientists, and engineers. They are ready to engage in high-level investigations of flight.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than a third of students from low‑income households

150 students impacted
Mrs. Borders Key Peninsula Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lakebay, WA View local requests

More than a third 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

150 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DSM III Flight and Rocketry - Complete Kit • Delta Education $302.00 1 $302.00
PHYSICAL SCI ACTION:FLIGHT,DVD • Carolina Biological Supply Company $44.95 1 $44.95
Set of 6 Accusplit Survivor II Stopwatches • Nasco $40.99 1 $40.99
PIPET,REUSEABLE,10X0.1ML • Carolina Biological Supply Company $9.15 1 $9.15

Materials cost

$397.09

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.71

Sales tax

 $25.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$490.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$107.56

Total project goal

$597.56

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