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Ms. Davis from Cincinnati, OH is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Solar System and Beyond the Universe

My students need Sargent Art-Time Dough to create scale models of the planets in the solar system. The beads and sentence strips are to create a scale model.

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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.

My Students

Our students come from a variety of different cultural backgrounds with 100% of our students receiving free lunch. Students speak a multitude of languages including English and Spanish. As diverse as our students are economically and culturally, they are diverse in their academics. Our school serves the community in a number of ways: health center and there are a multitude of teams and clubs that fit the needs of everyone.

My students walk into our classroom every day full of life, ready to learn, and excited for what is in store for them that day.

They are motivated to do hands on Science, and STEM projects. They love it!

My Project

My students need hands on materials for STEM and Science instruction at the 5th grade level. The Art-Time dough will enable the student to create working with a partner a visual scale model of the planets that includes the inner and outer planets and the asteroid belt.

I teach 85 energetic fifth grade students in Ohio in a school where 100% of the students qualify for free lunch..

All students want to learn and we need materials to make learning memorable..Many are English language learners, many are special education. These students come to school excited for learning, and love to get their hands on anything that will help increase their learning. Many of these students come to 5th grade with limited or no Science background knowledge. Beyond these odds, my students work hard to attain knowledge, and are fabulous human beings.

My project is based on Ohio state standards for Space Science.

The objective is to compare or summarize general characteristics (size, composition, distance, temperature, motion) of objects in the universe including stars, planets,moons, asteroids,and comets.

Students will predict and make a paper model on a sentence strip of the size of the sun and the planets.

Next, they will work with a partner to divide a container of clay dough into balls based on the teacher directions to represent the sun and the size of planets. The students will be able to list the name of the planets and have a visual model of the planets in our solar system. For this lesson,I will include Pluto and discuss why it is now called a dwarf planet.

The colored beads and sentence strips will be used to represent the sun and distance of planets.

Ms. Davis Roberts Academy Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Davis

Cincinnati, OH View local requests

Nearly all 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

HBCU Alum 85 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
33296-1069 - Sargent Art-Time Dough - Class Pack of 6, 3 lb total • Blick Art Materials $36.43 4 $145.72
BEADS GLASS MORETTIE .5 LB • School Specialty $22.29 3 $66.87
WIPES DISINFECTING LYSOL 80 CT - LEMON & LIME BLOSSOM CT CASE OF 6 • School Specialty $41.88 1 $41.88
TAPE SCOTCH MAGIC 0.75 IN X 300 IN PACK OF 3 • School Specialty $5.81 6 $34.86
60716-1005 - Hygloss Assorted Plastic Beads - Assorted Styles and Colors, 10 oz • Blick Art Materials $5.09 5 $25.45
PAPER SENT STRIPS KALEID TAG - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $4.32 5 $21.60

Materials cost

$336.38

Vendor shipping charges

$33.64

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$405.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.48

Total project goal

$476.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$476.55

3 Donors

-$210.03

Donations toward project cost

-$202.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$238.28

Match offer toward project cost

-$202.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.24

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$0.00

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