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Department Wish Lists
 | Any Department (added 11/13/07) USB Flash/Thumb drives or CD-RW disks for student data storage #2 pencils and ball point pens Printer paper Copier transparencies Refillable pump hand soap Whisk brooms, dust pans, floor brooms |
| Alternative Education Cheap calculators (Qty: 10) Expo pens (whiteboard) Report folders for Language Arts Packets (Qty: 35) Spiral Notebooks for science/math students (Qty: 20) 3 Tab Folders w/inside pocket for Social Studies, Health (Qty: 20) $$ to purchase a few sets of 10 books to be used throughout the school and specifically for Language Arts Novel Credit Alt-Ed Curriculum (Contact Laurie Jones for more information) Notebook paper Pencils Pink erasers Tissue paper |
| Art & Design (added 11/13/07) Paint supplies: acrylics, brushes, paintable canvas/plywood/masonite Large, interesting still life materials (geometric shapes, statues or busts, silk flowers, fake fruit, vases/bowls, animal skulls) Clean fabric such as denim, silk, lace, velvet, 100% cotton--suitable for sewing, embroidery, appliqué, quilting, painting/dying etc…(pieces should be at least 12” square) Special clothing that can be ‘reinvented’ (formal dresses, etc.) Old jewelry, wire beads, clasps, etc… Basic tools: Phillips and standard screwdrivers, files, vices, hammers and mallets (jewelry could use ball-peen, wood, or rubber)… Fruit or kitchen scales (ounces and/or fractions, pounds for weighing clay) Rolling pins Aprons Dust pans and brooms Rag towels Scrap copper or silver Stained glass or clean window glass Clean or un-used house painting brushes Large picture frames (for framing student work) |
| Biology (added 11/13/07) Petri dishes (disposable or reusable) Electrophoresis agarose Nutrient agar Vibrating Vortex Antibiotic discs Microcentrifuge tubes Pipette tips, all sizes Fund an AP Biology Lab (e.g., Bacterial Transformation, DNA Fingerprinting, Drosophila Genetics) $100 each Fund a visit from Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (e.g., Living With Wildlife, Raptor Program) $100 per class visit Fund a field trip with Salmon Watch, $35 per class |
| English (added 12/4/07) American Heritage High School Dictionaries (2007 hardcover edition—available from Amazon for $17) Thesauruses (Any type is great to add to our collections) Office Max or Staples gift cards Classroom supplies such as colored Expo overhead pens (low odor), staples, glue sticks, colored markers, highlighters, construction paper, index cards, roller ball pens (for grading), post-it notes, pencils, masking tape, scotch tape Borders or OSU Bookstore gift cards for purchasing books to create classroom libraries Mask-Making materials: plaster bandages, tempera paint, paintbrushes, aluminum foil DVDs to create humanities library for instructional use (Amazon gift certificate?) Film titles include: Of Mice and Men, To Live, Gandhi, Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli version), Hamlet, Il Postino, Death of a Salesman (Dustin Hoffman version), Kitchen Toto, Hamlet (Branaugh version), Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Kabhi Khushi Khabie Gham, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird, Freedom Riders, Angela’s Ashes, Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn version), Dead Poet’s Society, Great Gatsby |
| Environmental Science (added 11/13/07) Fund an AP Environmental Science field trip (e.g., water treatment center, Coffin Butte, etc.) $40 per trip for the bus |
| Field Biology (added 11/13/07) Copies of Plants of the Pacific NW Coast Rite-in-the-Rain paper Field measuring tapes (300 feet) |
| Horticulture (added 11/13/07) Money for equipment rental Gloves Garden tools: spades, rakes, shovels, hoes, clippers, weed eater, aluminum ladder, rear-tine tiller, chipper 55 gallon plastic barrels Hoses Sprinklers Wheelbarrows or garden cart Boots and raingear Drip irrigation (any parts and pieces) PVC pipe and elbows Rolls of heavy duty clear plastic, plastic drop cloths, etc. Plug-in heat tape (to keep pipes from freezing) Waterbed heaters or heat mats (to use in greenhouse boxes) Grow lights Popsicle sticks or white marker sticks to label seeds planted Shade cloth Weed-block cloth Soil/PH test kits or meters Soil thermometers (the longer probe would be best) Scrap 2x4 (longer than 3 feet) to be used for raised beds Small windows that could be used for cold frames Books: gardening, composting, habitat, project/fundraiser ideas |
| LIbarary For student use: Glue sticks Construction paper Manila and project folders 3 ½ floppy HD disks Flash drives (to loan, and to give to students on free and reduced lunch) Scissors Batteries: AA, AAA 3 x 5” cards Graph paper Kleenex Sets of marking pens Donations of books for young adults Optical mice with USB connection Tape: transparent, magic mending and masking Pencils Sharpies White out For our use: Glue sticks Batteries: AA, AAA, 9v Book tape: 2” and 4” ½” magic mending tape Surge suppressors from Office Max: APC 7-outlet surrgearrest, without telephone or internet connections (about $25 each), $10 each if you take in 5 empty cartridges and get $15 off (we have empty cartridges if you don’t) White out pens and bottles Paperclips: jumbo and regular Staples, standard Specialty paper (for awards, certificates, etc.) Sharpies |
| Mathematics (updated 11/13/07) AA and AAA batteries (not rechargeable) Plastic sheet protectors Protractors Kleenix Graph Paper Rulers - metric & standard Meter sticks Sticky Notes Manilla folders Hanging File Folders Papermate flair pens Overhead markers Scientific Calculators ($15 each) Colored low odor Expo 2 whiteboard markers TI-84+ graphing calculators ($110 each) TI-emulator software ($135 per teacher) |
| Marine Biology (added 11/13/07) Copies of Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific NW Copies of The Beachcomber’s Guide to Seashore Life in the NW Copies of The Marine Science Coloring Book Pinpoint Oxygen Probes ($235) Salinity Refractometers ($50 to $100) Portable, waterproof pH testers ($60) 10 gallon aquarium tanks with lids Lids for rectangular 30 and 50-gallon aquarium tanks Working power heads and air pumps Lights and heaters Cold water touch tank aquarium system for collection and display of local tide pool animals ($4,000) |
| Orchestra New Folders (Qty: 90 at $10 each) Bow rehairs (Qty: 10 at $35 each) $$ for Instrument repair (from $50 - $5,000) Re-string cellos (Qty: 10 at $85 each) Re-string string basses (Qty: 4 at $140 each) Sheet music ($125 per set) $$ for Piano tuning ($125) Coaching sessions (Qty: 10 $50 per 90 minutes) |
| Science (added 11/13/07) Scientific calculators Protractors Graph paper Rulers—metric & standard Meter sticks |
| Science & Technology (added 11/13/07) Sterile pipettes Glassware: beakers, graduated cylinders, and Erlenmeyer flasks Dish washing tubs, sponges Kitchen strainers (5 to 6-inch diameter) Duct tape Paper towels Computer monitors Laptop computers CRC Physics & Chemistry Reference Manuals Ink cartridges for the Epson Stylus Pro 9800 printer (for printing student posters) Plotter paper for the Epson printer |
| Social Studies DVDs: Gandhi, Empire of the Sun, The Lost Battalion, Cinderella Man, Saving Private Ryan, The Long Walk Home, Crash Glue Sticks Construction Paper Scissors Sharpies EXPO pens |
| Special Education $$ for age appropriate transition/life skills curriculum (budget workbooks, math, etc) $$ for consumable workbooks (math, reading, writing) $$ for updated date based reading programs $$ to apply towards printing budget $$ for Great Source materials/reading/writing workbooks Supplies (kleenix, paper, binders, etc) |
| World Language Video Camera DVD player for German Kleenix Dry Erase Black Expo erasable markers Overhead markers: fine-tip Spanish/French/German movies and music (non-pirated, please!) Bilingual French, German, Spanish dictionaries |