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Shhhh! We're Tracking Animals!

My students need owl pellets, animal track kits,and a variety of materials to explore animals through the clues they leave including tracks and pellets!

  • $649 goal

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My Students

Imagine experiencing the food chain by putting together the bones of a vole or small mouse after it fell prey to an owl. Close your eyes and envision tracking a wild animal through the snow, using its tracks as a guide. This project will allow my students to do these things!

My students represent a diverse group of PS through 5th graders in Northeast Washington, DC.

Our DC Public School is one that truly values inquiry and learning by doing and our students continue to rise to our expectations every day. From the youngest preschool student to the oldest 5th grade student, all receive science instruction in the classroom and practice in Habits of Mind using their Multiple Intelligences in our Think Tank program. Our unique school is a special one, with over 300 unique and eager learners who thrive on hands-on, inquiry-based learning.

My Project

Living in a large city, we often experience the animal world through videos, texts and periodic field trips. The Animal Track Cards, imprints, and owl pellet dissection kits will allow students to step into a new level of understanding of the animal world--one that is not easily seen in a city context. Students will be able to experience the food chain not through a text, but by dissecting real owl pellets, putting together the bones of prey and determining the feeding patterns of the mysterious owl. In addition, students will be able to create, touch and explore animal tracks through imprint stamps, a tracking game and stamps. Through these they will "track" a variety of species and learn to look carefully at the natural world around them. These materials directly relate to our science standards, but allow us to step outside the textbook and into the natural world... all while sitting in the middle of a major city.

This project is so important because it brings to life exciting aspects of nature inside the classroom.

Not all of my students have had the chance to visit locations where owl pellets can be found, or bear tracks can be followed. Hopefully these materials will inspire them to set goals to visit these places in their lifetime and possibly even choose a career path that will lead them there.

Mrs. Ford
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT DLX CLASS KIT OWL PELLET • School Specialty $149.33 1 $149.33
KIT SCI ON A TRACKING EXPEDITION PACK OF 4 • School Specialty $109.81 1 $109.81
OWL PELLETS REPLACEMENTS PACK OF 15 • School Specialty $42.74 2 $85.48
RUBBING PLATE ANIMAL TRACKS SET OF 16 • School Specialty $9.02 6 $54.12
INK AND STAMP ANIMAL PRINT SET OF 18 • School Specialty $22.32 1 $22.32
Animal Tracks Poster • Carolina Biological Supply Company $15.68 1 $15.68
PAINT SCRAPERS ANIMAL SHAPES PACK OF 20 • School Specialty $6.64 1 $6.64

Materials cost

$443.38

Vendor shipping charges

 $44.34

Sales tax

 $26.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$550.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.23

Total project goal

$648.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $648.20

8 Donors

-$605.55

Donations toward project cost

-$516.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.58

match offer

-$40.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$34.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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