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Mrs. Staton from New Castle DE is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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STEM - Blasting Off With Rockets!

Help me give my students robots to investigate lift off, flight, and recovery.

  • $281 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

All students at our school receive free breakfast and lunch. The students come to school looking forward to my class because they absolutely love hands-on, active, engaging projects and challenges that allow them to think outside the box to find solutions! My goal is to allow them to experience activities that are not available to them at home.

STEAM and STEM activities are a big HIT, the students are getting to do hands-on activities with the help from DonorsChoose, they are interested in learning parts of a rocket, building one, and launching it.

My Project

Students hear about the rockets being launched into space more frequently now and they want to know how that works. The goal is to teach the students parts of the rockets, what is needed to make it fly, thrusters, projectory, torque, wind resistance, and recovery.

In order to study Flight, we need buildable rockets because it helps to learn the parts of the rocket and how each part plays a part in the total package of making a rocket fly, building one with hands-on activities makes it more fun and gives students a unique experience.

We will start with the water type rocket and move on to combustible engine rockets.

Mrs. Staton
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Estes AVG Rocket Bulk Pack (Pack of 12) - 47776017535 • Amazon Business $82.79 2 $165.58
AquaPod Water Bottle Rocket Launcher Science Kit- STEM Toy Launches Soda Bottles Up to 100 ft in Air • Amazon Business $39.59 1 $39.59

Materials cost

$205.17

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$238.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.04

Total project goal

$280.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $280.29

3 Donors

-$280.29

Donations toward project cost

-$238.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.04

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 $0.00

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