Modeling Earth Science and Biology Essential Skills
Help me give my students fossil kits and snap cubes that will provide hands-on and minds-on opportunities to practice modeling essential scientific concepts during our earth science and biology units.
Our students need experiences that allow them to model scientific processes through activities that require them to use both their minds and their hands.
Using plastic snap cubes, students can model important biological processes such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration to see how atoms of elements combine and recombine into substances that are essential for life.
Making molds and casts of geologically important fossils enables students to experience processes that occur over a long geologic time span.
Teachers Pay Teachers gift cards will be used to provide quality teacher produced materials to supplement our curriculum.
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$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on TPT
• TPT
$100.00
2
$200.00
hand2mind Centimeter Cubes, Math Linking Cubes, Plastic Cubes, Snap Blocks, Color Sorting, Connecting Cubes, Math Manipulatives, Counting Cubes for Kids Math, Math Cubes, Math Counters (Set of 1000)
• Amazon Business
$31.50
5
$157.50
Fossil Kit, 21 piece
• Carolina Biological Supply Company
$25.11
4
$100.44
Pipe Cleaners Chenille Stems 1050 Pieces 30 Assorted Colors for Craft Arts Creative DIY Projects Decorations, 6mm x 12inch Fuzzy Colored Chenille Stem Sticks Set Craft Supplies for Kids and Adults
• Amazon Business
$19.99
2
$39.98
Essentials by Leisure Arts Pony Beads - Neon, Opaque, 6mm x 9mm, Package of 750
• Blick Art Materials
$4.39
1
$4.39
Materials cost
$502.31
Vendor shipping charges
$9.95
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$7.53
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$549.79
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$97.02
Total project goal
$646.81
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$646.81
1 Donor
-$646.81
Donations toward project cost
-$549.79
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