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Mrs. Bates from Denham Springs LA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's Investigate! Hands-On Science

My students need these tuning forks, prisms, mirrors and lenses for investigating during unit on energy.

  • $393 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Due to recent flooding in our community, we lost all our science materials. Please help us replace the materials lost!

We are a Title I school where 78% of the students are on free lunch.

The school consists of 398 students from various multicultural backgrounds.

My students are sweet, creative, and curious learners. They love to learn new things by using hands-on activities. These materials will help guide my students' learning! Please help make this possible by rebuilding our science materials.

My Project

My students love to learn through a hands-on experience. These materials are necessary for this type of learning to continue.

I have requested these materials so that my students can investigate difficult concepts such as sound, light and electricity.

The tuning forks are used to investigate the terms pitch and volume. The prisms, mirrors and lens are used to investigate concepts such as refraction and reflection. The electricity materials are used to build simple, series and parallel circuits.

Hands on science makes difficult concepts come to life. Because sound, light and electricity are not tangible, using these materials to investigate the concepts bring the topics to life for the students.

Mrs. Bates
Grades 3-5
  • Denham Springs Elementary 3-5 @ Freshwater Elementary
  • Denham Springs, LA

    • This project will reach 75 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
BATTERY HOLDERS W/CLIPS PKG/8 • Frey Scientific $10.79 4 $43.16
LENSES ECONOMY SET OF 2 ST • Frey Scientific $2.69 15 $40.35
BULB SOCKETS PKG/6 • Frey Scientific $7.19 5 $35.95
SWITCH KNIFE SPDT BATTERY EA • Frey Scientific $1.79 15 $26.85
BULBS FLASHLIGHT #41 PKG/10 • Frey Scientific $4.49 5 $22.45
TUNING FORK, DIATONIC, B480 EA • Frey Scientific $3.59 6 $21.54
PRISM PLAS 2''/EA • Frey Scientific $2.69 8 $21.52
UNBREAKABLE MIRROR,PK/8 PK • Frey Scientific $6.29 3 $18.87
WIRE SOLID PVC INSUL TC BLACK 20 GA 100' • Frey Scientific $8.99 2 $17.98

Materials cost

$248.67

Vendor shipping charges

 $29.84

Sales tax

 $21.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$334.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.94

Total project goal

$392.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $392.94

3 Donors

-$392.94

Donations toward project cost

-$334.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.94

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