Wish List :

Supplies you can buy for our class:  (Please let me know by email if you will be getting something so I can take it off the list)

- Potting Soil (several large bags)

- 8 oz. styrofoam cups for plant lab, need a total of 240

- graph paper filler paper, several packages

-  adding machine tape 2.25 inches wide for making a timeline of earth history, package of 12 rolls 
 
- reams of copy paper (ask how we are doing, sometimes the school or PTA comes through with paper)

- boxes of facial tissue, especially during cold and allergy season

Sponsor a lab, an activity or equipment:  (I will purchase these specific supplies.  You can write a check to Jefferson Middle School.  Be sure to write "for gifted 7th grade science" on the comment line of the check, or the funds will not go to this classroom.)

- Mushroom Lab, 1 or 2 Mushroom growing kits, approximate cost: $25-$35 each

- DNA Model Lab, uses beads and wire, approximate cost: $ 50 for all supplies  

- High-quality prepared microscope slides of types of cells, cell division, and various tissues.  Approximate cost: $8-10 per slide - sponsor one or more. 

- replacement bulbs for our grow lamps, approximate cost: $ 35 for a 3 pack 

- seeds for plant labs, approximate cost: $20-30

- live invertebrates for invertebrate diversity lab (crickets, snails, worms, crayfish, mealy worms),  approximate cost $ 20 

- Flowers, fruits and seeds lab, live specimens, approximate cost $ 20-30

- Accessories and supplies for the classroom fish tank, approximate cost $50