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Ms. Borges from Campbell, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I Never Realized Someone Drew That! - Art and Science

Help me give my students Prang watercolor pencil sets to create scientific illustrations.

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My Students

Although I'm not the biggest baseball fan, I'll use a common baseball expression to describe how impressed I've been by my students this year. My Art 2 kids have really "stepped up to the plate." The beginning of the year, of course, had started out shaky as we all got used to distance learning, Zoom and Canvas. I had to reteach much of the drawing skills they'd gotten rusty with over time. I'm not going to lie, I was a little worried. But right now we're in the middle of a very intense charcoal project and the kids are bringing their A game and really hitting home runs. Their control over their tools and their attention to detail is making me happy while I type this. These kids are awesome!

My Project

Visual aids are absolutely imperative for any student to effectively learn about any branch of science from Biology to Physics to Psychology. Science books, journals and articles are heavily peppered with artistic drawings that provide much more than a photograph. By drawing cells or tissues or anatomies, etc, the artist can control the translucency of their materials and show different layers or aspects or microscopic pieces of those subject matter that a photograph just can't capture. By drawing, the artist has more control over what they scientifically exhibit.

I would like to use this opportunity to implement a cross-curricular project that connects the visual arts to the sciences by having my visual art students create scientific illustrations just as they'd see in science journals and educational books.

Watercolor pencils are the material that my students need to best create these illustrations as they allow for great control by allowing my student to draw while also allowing my students to paint and blend colors to realistically render their subject matter. Furthermore, as I mentioned earlier, the ability to create translucent layers (which is easier with watercolor pencils) is very helpful to scientific illustrations since it lends itself to exhibiting multiple layers of cells or tissues of any given plant or animal.

Watercolor pencils would furthermore be helpful in terms of distance learning as it is an easier material to control and distribute than traditional acrylic or tempera. These materials would allow my students to paint at home and get the full experience of an art class while learning about and connecting with science.

Ms. Borges Westmont High School Grades 9-12

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More than a third 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

72 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
20532-0009 - Prang Watercolor Pencils - With Brush, Set of 10 • Blick Art Materials $5.37 70 $375.90

Materials cost

$375.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $34.39

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$445.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$78.69

Total project goal

$524.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $524.62

1 Donor

-$52.46

Donations toward project cost

-$44.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.87

match offer

-$472.16

Match offer toward project cost

-$401.34

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.82

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