My students need analog and digital tools, glass marble shooters, micrometers, carriages, weights, pipe insulation, hexagram mass sets, Slinkies, light prisms, 3D glasses, and spectroscopes to investigate energy transfers in the physical world around them.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Martin's classroom raised $613
This project is fully funded
My Students
My students come from mixed backgrounds of single-parent, traditional family, mixed family, and foster or grandparent care. Common to all, however, is the desire to be given the opportunity to explore and discover critical-thinking skills needed by all as they transition from being the students of today to the leaders of tomorrow. My students are ambitious, kind, and ready to learn cross-cutting science and engineering concepts.
Your donation will provide resources for these students I love.
We are currently working with the 5E lesson structure that includes inquiry-based labs and interactive notebooks. The final key needed is consistent technology in my classroom.
My Project
Without supplies it is very difficult to engage and excite 8th graders in physics and looking at the world around them through scientific and engineering minds. Or the right supplies. I have researched engineering lesson plans that will keep my students creating and exploring the concepts of energy transfers through waves, both sound and light, potential energy to kinetic energy, and the world of analog vs digital.
The carriages and weights will be used to demonstrate how mass and velocity affect the amount of kinetic energy.
The glass marble shooters and pipe insulation are essential to displaying the transfer of energy from potential to kinetic and back to potential. We'll use the Slinkies to display the different types of waves and how they are transferred through a medium. The prisms, 3D glasses, and spectroscopes will be used to experiment with light waves. The analog and digital equipment will serve as key materials in a lesson where students will discover the benefits of digital vs analog.
These requested supplies are all reusable and will serve many students throughout the years to come. My students will have hands-on learning experiences that will test their abilities and force them to gain new knowledge in the physical world around them.
Half of 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
American Educational Plastic Simple Hall'S Carriage, 5-1/4" Length, 2" Width, 1-1/2" Height (Bundle of 5)
• Amazon Business
$30.67
3
$92.01
EISCO Premium Quantitative Spectroscope, +/- 5nm Accuracy
• Amazon Business
$8.22
10
$82.20
2.5" Amlong Crystal® Optical Glass Triangular Prism for Teaching Light Spectrum Physics 60mm
• Amazon Business
$7.98
10
$79.80
Original Slinky Brand Slinky
• Amazon Business
$4.24
10
$42.40
Dr.meter Dr-150 6" Digital Caliper Stainless Steel Venire Caliper Gauge Micrometer with Electronic Large LCD Display Inch Decimal Millimeter Auto off Measuring tool,Black
• Amazon Business
$16.99
2
$33.98
Anytime Tools Dial Caliper 6" / 150mm DUAL Reading Scale METRIC SAE Standard INCH MM
• Amazon Business
$33.95
1
$33.95
ETA hand2mind Hexagram Mass Set
• Amazon Business
$15.49
2
$30.98
40mm Crystal Ball Prisms #701-40
• Amazon Business
$4.98
5
$24.90
Gardner Bender GMT-312 Analog Multimeter, 5 Function / 12 Range, 300V AC/DC, for AC / DC Voltage & Current, Resistance, Continuity & Batteries
• Amazon Business
$10.93
2
$21.86
M-D Building Products 50140 3/8-Inch Wall 1/2-Inch by 3-Feet Tube Pipe Insulation, 4-Pack
• Amazon Business
$4.49
4
$17.96
ED (Pack of 8) Sony TDG-500P 3D Glasses Deluxe Family Pack Compatible Passive 3D Glasses!
• Amazon Business
$16.95
1
$16.95
JMK 100 pcs Glass Marbles with Shooter
• Amazon Business
$6.09
1
$6.09
Materials cost
$483.08
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$7.25
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$520.33
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$91.82
Total project goal
$612.15
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$612.15
4 Donors
-$303.88
Donations toward project cost
-$262.05
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$41.83
match offer
-$303.86
Match offer toward project cost
-$258.28
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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