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Mr. Gips from Port Aransas TX is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Rendering the Ecoregions of Texas

My students need chart paper, student pencil colors, and posterboard to complete to scale renderings of the ecoregions of Texas.

  • $277 goal

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My Students

My students are outstanding hands-on learners! They love to use textbook material and translate it into drawings or charts that will help them learn new things in a different way! From the time that they walk into my classroom every day they are asking questions and looking around to see what we are doing in class and what materials that they might need for the lesson!

After Hurricane Harvey many of my students and myself included were left with virtually no supplies!

Throughout the school year we pulled together to meet every material need for the vast array of my learners. While I do use a large variety of learning strategies I love to watch students work together in groups. I absolutely enjoy watching them vary leadership roles, assign tasks to one another and search for success! I can't wait for the 2018-2019 school year to start!

My Project

Students will be able to render (to scale) a model of the ecoregions of Texas. Understanding that many students will not visit all of the ecoregions of Texas in their lifetime I think it is imperative that they still be able to grasp the details of each region.

Each student will use the posterboard to draw a model of the state of Texas, outlining and defining the ecoregions along with the different plant life, soil types, elevations and animals.

I attempted to do this project over the past year but with far less space on normal printer paper the students had difficultly having enough space for all of the information. In the end, we finished the project with making flip books for the information. With posterboard, chart paper, and colored pencils students will be able to keep all of the information on the same poster that students can keep with them for years to come!

Mr. Gips
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
13104-1002-Blick Deluxe Posterboard - 22" x 28" x 14 Ply, Two Sided, White • Blick Art Materials $1.95 50 $97.50
22427-2409-Faber-Castell GRIP Colored EcoPencils - Set of 24 • Blick Art Materials $10.39 7 $72.73
10282-1134-Pacon Heavy Duty Anchor Chart Paper - 27" x 34", Non-Gridded • Blick Art Materials $13.48 1 $13.48

Materials cost

$183.71

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.37

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$234.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.44

Total project goal

$276.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $276.28

5 Donors

-$137.70

Donations toward project cost

-$117.79

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.91

match offer

-$137.71

Match offer toward project cost

-$117.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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 $0.00

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