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Mr. Moore from Wilmington, NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Science Classroom Museum

My Science students need 17 classroom resources, including assorted environmental sciences analysis equipment, pulleys and scales and model/display building craft supplies, including a collage kit, felt and glue.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Moore's classroom raised $547

This project is fully funded

When at-risk middle grade students turn their classroom into a museum, they not only learn a lot of science, they learn that school is a place where they can accomplish something they are proud of. They learn that science can be fun. My 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students have all been long-term suspended from regular schools for behavioral infractions. They need a fresh start and fresh creative approaches to learning, not more of the traditional schooling they have already come to believe they can’t do.

Although the students we serve desperately need inquiry-oriented hands-on learning activities to succeed, our budget is almost non-existent for the supplies needed to support that kind of instruction. Students come to us throughout the year as they get into trouble in regular schools, and by the end of the year we may have enrolled 100 students. However, our funding is based on enrollment on the tenth day of school--when our enrollment is at or near zero. Thus, though our program is staffed with caring creative teachers, we lack the resources to create the types of learning environments our students really need.

And what these students need most are opportunities to experience success that we can build on. They need school work they will feel proud of and opportunities to show off cool work. For example, giving guided tours to visiting students from our adjoining high school and elementary school through the giant model of a cell, which they made by taping thin sheets of plastic into a huge bag (cell membrane) and inflating it with a large floor fan. Once they take visitors inside the membrane, our student docents will explain all about the forms and functions of the various cell organelles they have crafted from Styrofoam, pipe cleaners, beads, bobs, and found objects. Or how about providing demonstrations at the water testing lab? Or giving guided tours through time in the geology wing of the museum? The classroom-as-science museum will make learning meaningful, fun and give these students unprecedented opportunities to feel successful at “doing school.”

Importantly, the pride these students will feel will be genuine and well-earned. After all, no matter what part of the cell model you built, you have to understand all of it to give guided tours. Also, though these students may have built simple models and dioramas in school before, seldom have they had opportunities to work on something as huge as a model of a cell that fills half the classroom. It has been my experience that when students are given the opportunity to work towards an end product that can be "awesome" rather than "so lame" they rise to the occasion and do awesome work. This is awesome work both in terms of the content they learn and the creativity they apply in making a display of that learning. All we need to make it happen are a few basic science supplies and some arts and crafts materials.

Mr. Moore Career Readiness Academy - Mosley Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
FELT 9X12 ASST PK/12 • Childcraft, Inc. $2.99 3 $8.97
Green Basic Water Monitoring Kit • Frey Scientific, Inc. $34.00 2 $68.00
COLLAGE KIT BIG BOX OF ART MATERIALS • Childcraft, Inc. $64.99 1 $64.99
PIPE CLEANERS SCHOOL SMART 12 ASST COLORS • Childcraft, Inc. $0.99 10 $9.90
SEQUINS SCHOOL SMART ASSORTED SHAPES/COLORS • Childcraft, Inc. $8.99 1 $8.99
Elmer's® School Glue, 4 Oz. • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $0.66 12 $7.92
Elmer's Classroom Pack of Clear Glue Sticks • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $15.74 1 $15.74
Full-Size Low-Temperature Glue Gun • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $6.39 2 $12.78
Dual-Temperature Glue Sticks - Round • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc. $2.15 6 $12.90
LaMotte Dissolved Oxygen Test Kit • Frey Scientific, Inc. $49.00 1 $49.00
Soil Sampling Tube • Frey Scientific, Inc. $28.50 1 $28.50
Tubular Spring Scale (250g/ 2.5 N) • Frey Scientific, Inc. $3.95 4 $15.80
Spring Scales Complete Set (6 Scales) • Frey Scientific, Inc. $23.70 1 $23.70
Plastic Pulleys, Single • Frey Scientific, Inc. $2.35 6 $14.10
Double Tandem Pulley • Frey Scientific, Inc. $4.05 4 $16.20
Economy Triple Tandem Pulley • Frey Scientific, Inc. $3.45 3 $10.35
BLICK MODELING CLAY/5LB ASST • Blick Art Materials $5.73 2 $11.46

Materials cost

$379.30

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.93

Sales tax

 $16.12

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$448.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.35

Total project goal

$546.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $546.40

8 Donors

-$270.73

Donations toward project cost

-$224.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.71

match offer

-$273.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$224.03

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.18

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.47

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