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This is a great resource for new teachers who already have a lot on their plate. Although I've been teaching for 5 years, I still use TPT when I need a quick activity to fill in time, or don't want to spend the time re-inventing the wheel. I love being able to support other teachers as well! I haven't used all of the gift card yet, but I have bought my warm up questions from a teacher on TPT. 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Students always ask to go outside for their activity, and it's hard not to agree with them! Our school is outdoors and there is a grass area in the middle of campus where students love to throw a football, play volleyball, or play soccer! So, thank you so much for your donation to make Fun Friday a blast!","fullyFundedDate":1746786314293,"projectUrl":"project/lets-get-active-with-a-brain-break/9320551/","projectTitle":"Let's Get Active with a Brain Break!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Stark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8340570_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1660412913215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sciencewithstark"},{"teacherId":8340570,"projectId":9664218,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping fund this project for our class ball python, Pelota. I have set up the tank, added a new hide, and given him a new heating pad. Not only does he LOVE having the extra room to stretch all the way out, the students love it too! I haven't gotten rid of his old enclosure, in fact, I brought it home so he has a place to stay on longer breaks, either for winter break or for summer. This will make it a lot easier to only bring home Pelota, instead of his entire tank and set up. Pelota and I sincerely appreciate your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1757602246035,"projectUrl":"project/snake-tank-for-our-class-pet/9664218/","projectTitle":"Snake Tank for Our Class Pet","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Stark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8340570_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1660412913215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sciencewithstark"},{"teacherId":9338100,"projectId":9649869,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting my students and their work. I always start class with a warm up that they do in their notebooks, and being able to provide every student with a notebook is important. By adding in the colored pencils students get a bit more freedom in being able to decorate or write in their favorite color. 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Every Friday, the kids earn time to have a \"fun Friday\" to give them a bit of a break from the routine. Before this project, that was mostly playing games in class or watching movies. Now they have a new favorite activity, going outside. The students group up with their friends and throw the football around or play a bit of volleyball. 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They had fun doing hands on exploration and we even took it a step further at the students request.\r\nWe have a pond at our school that is home to two turtles, the students decided to collect and test the water for the pond as well as plate samples to determine the kind of bacteria that was in there.\r\nThis is also benefitting the students outside of my direct class, as the 6th graders on campus learn to use microscopes by looking at the pond water and they will now be able to explore other aspects of the environment with the tools from this kit.","fullyFundedDate":1758146714813,"projectUrl":"project/watershed-exploration/9649920/","projectTitle":"Watershed Exploration","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Tritt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9338100_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y88&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697831110309","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrtritt"},{"teacherId":8926669,"projectId":9522528,"letterContent":"This has been a fun project to receive. Students will be careful not to cut their fingers, but they love the opportunity to try this hands-on lesson on carved linoleum printing. These are really basic concepts in printing, creating a form, using ink to transfer an image, and seeing that the process is repeatable. This leads us to the revolutionary impact of printing in early China, and then in Renaissance Europe. \r\nThis isn't an easy task, and we have used quite a few band aids in the learning curve of how to handle the carving knives on linoleum. 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These stir conversations about, \"what is that?\" and \"why does it look like that?\" or \"I didn't realize that would look like that!\" The moon on the wall ties into various lessons on lunar events and lunar new year. We don't turn it on every day, but when we do, it adds a little more of a big-picture feel to a room that strives to understand the world and beyond.","fullyFundedDate":1758217954951,"projectUrl":"project/microscope-slides-to-explore-a-small-wor/9692880/","projectTitle":"Microscope Slides to Explore a Small World","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Fields","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8926669_orig.jpg?crop=467,467,x182,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1683203180404","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8926669"},{"teacherId":8340570,"projectId":9660752,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping fund this project which provided my students with NEW calculators AND Stopwatches. This is going to tremendously help with their data collection. Our old calculators and stopwatches hardly worked and students where struggling to get precise data because of this problem. The stopwatches especially will be a huge help, and students have already been using them with their experiments. Thank you again for your generosity and helping make my classroom a place for success.","fullyFundedDate":1757635222396,"projectUrl":"project/calculate-speed-of-cars-with-stopwatches/9660752/","projectTitle":"Calculate Speed of Cars with Stopwatches and Calculators","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Stark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8340570_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1660412913215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sciencewithstark"},{"teacherId":4690418,"projectId":9481691,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for funding our classroom project! 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