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Mrs. Baldauf from Bay Point CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Student-led project

Student-Led Project: Skeleton in the Art Room

We need a life-size plastic skeleton, charcoal pencils and charcoal paper in the art room for students to have a better understanding of human anatomy when drawing, sculpting and creating digital art.

  • $602 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

About My Students

One of the 8 table groups in the art room came up with the idea of wanting a skeleton in the class for fun and getting the correct proportions in their 2D, 3D and digital art. The idea of having an actual skeleton in the art room will be so enriching for students. The possibilities and use are endless.

This month we were creating paper mache people out of card-stock that are like paper dolls that stand though they are in movement poses. The people have to be drawn on the card-stock in the right proportions. We watched a video of how to do this. Drawing people correctly is a skill students learn in middle school. They had to divide up the paper in 12 head sizes, etc. Students were looking at the small mannequins and came up with the idea of having one life-size mannequin/skeleton for everyone to see. It would make the concept clearer. We could put different hats on the skeleton as well and make him/her part of the classroom. We have never had a skeleton in the art room. Students could see the bones that make up a human body and have a better understanding of what they are drawing or sculpting the human figure out of clay.

Students will use the life-size skeleton in the art room to develop new skills and an understanding of human anatomy. They will collaborate as a table group with individual and group projects using the skeleton. They will learn self-discipline by creating art on their own, problem solving, finding a solution to an abstract problem with no one right answer, dealing with setbacks, and finding a creative solution. These skills will prepare them for careers and college. Drawing the human body is a mathematical proportion skill combined with drawing. Learning about different bones in the body is biology. Then, what students do with that skill is art. Working with a table group of four, students solve visual problems as a team. If they learn empathy towards their classmates that need extra help, then the class runs more smoothly and is more productive.

In Their Own Words

What we want to be able to buy is a life-size skeleton. We think this will help up when we draw people and can look and touch the skeleton. We have drawing assignments in our sketchbooks where we draw people and it will be helpful to have the skeleton in the front of the classroom. It is made of plastic and will last for a while. The clay class can use the skeleton and when people draw on the computer they can look at the skeleton. Our table picked this out of an art supply catalog.

I think we can use the skeleton every day in the art room when we are working in our sketchbooks. Other kids will see how we are drawing from the skeleton and try to draw the skeleton in their projects. I think as we get better at drawing people, we can show other students short cuts. Helping out in the art room is fun and you can earn privileges also. I think we can show the class the skeleton so they know they can use it for drawing people. It isn't a real skeleton. It's plastic.

This project is important to us because having a life-size skeleton in the art room, not a tiny mannequin will make the art room fun and interesting. Our drawings and clay projects of people will get better from actually looking and touching a skeleton. The school community will have more to offer with a skeleton in the art classes.

Mrs. Baldauf
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Human Skeleton • Nasco $235.24 1 $235.24
Derwent Charcoal Pencils Set of 72 • Nasco $73.56 1 $73.56
Generals Charcoal Pencils Classroom Pack of 72 • Nasco $51.16 1 $51.16
Strathmore 500 Series Charcoal Paper 19 x 25, 64 lb. • Nasco $23.96 1 $23.96
Blue Charcoal Paper 19 x 25 • Nasco $0.52 29 $15.08

Materials cost

$399.00

Vendor shipping charges

$39.90

Sales tax

$36.51

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$511.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.25

Total project goal

$601.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$601.64

4 Donors

-$195.82

Donations toward project cost

-$166.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.37

Matching donations from our partners

-$405.81

Match offers toward project cost

-$344.94

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.87

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$0.00

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