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Mrs. Houchin from Eagle Mountain, UT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Want to Build a Molecule?

Help me give my students a hands-on experience where they can create molecules to better understand how atoms attach to form molecules and those molecules can rearrange to form different molecules.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Houchin's classroom raised $982

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My Students

I teach 8th grade Science. My students love hands-on projects by experimenting in class. I have general population kids as well as kids with special educational needs. In 8th grade, it’s required of all students to take it and is considered general or integrated science and they learn 4 different sciences (physics, chemistry, life systems, and geology). When Covid hit we were trying to think of ways to make school a "hands-on" learning environment that they couldn't get at home more than we have in the past.

My Project

I have seen students become more frustrated since Covid when trying to learn. One concept that is really hard for students to learn is how atoms bond to form molecules. Atoms and molecules can't be seen. Students get easily frustrated and check out when they have to try to imagine them.

I believe by having these magnetic molecule-making kits students will be able to create with their hands the molecules we talk about in class.

We will be able to use them for our chemistry section when we learn how molecules rearrange to form different molecules (chemical changes) and the law of conservation of matter. They will also come in handy when we teach about photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Again the students will see how the molecules rearrange and form different molecules during those processes (reactants and products). I am hoping this will help with their frustration and gain a greater understanding while working together as a team.

Mrs. Houchin Frontier Middle School Grades 6-8 Eagle Mountain, UT View local requests 150 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Snatoms X Magnetic Molecular Modeling Kit • Amazon Business $99.00 8 $792.00

Materials cost

$792.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$833.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.16

Total project goal

$981.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $981.04

1 Donor

-$981.04

Donations toward project cost

-$833.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$147.16

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