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Mrs. Helms from Huntington IN is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Got Measurable Mass?

Help me give my students electronic balances 500 g, readability 0.1 g & triple beam balances.

  • $2,638 goal

This project expired on August 1, 2020.

This project expired on August 1, 2020.

My Students

We have a wide academic range of 6th-8th grade science students! Our students range from moderate intelligence to honors. Regardless of intelligence or academic ability, science is a class we adjust to include everyone!

No one wants to just hear about science; we want to experience it!

Science teachers and students love digging into science, using all our senses and getting a bit messy at times!

Our science budget can only handle the basics, not all of the materials needed for experiments, labs, and activities. For our students to experience as much as possible in science, teachers, parents, and students have supplied materials.

My Project

Our science team develops hands-on lessons for labs and actives that incorporate multiple curriculum standards. Measuring mass and understanding the difference between the mass of matter and the weight of an object, is one of the standards to master. This concept of mass verses weight is hard to understand by lecture alone.

Students with a balance available to them to explore, practice and use for labs, understand the meaning between mass verses weight with a deeper understanding!

The 6th grade students start by learning how to measure mass with a triple beam balance. The 7th and 8th grade students use the electronic balance to quickly and accurately measure mass of a substance, to a much greater degree than the triple beam balance. All grades apply the knowledge of measuring mass to their science experiments, labs and activities.

Mrs. Helms
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina Electronic Balance 500 g, Readability 0.1 g • Carolina Biological Supply Company $202.50 6 $1,215.00
Carolina Triple Beam Balance • Carolina Biological Supply Company $107.10 9 $963.90

Materials cost

$2,178.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$32.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,241.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$395.57

Total project goal

$2,637.15

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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