Cards for my students

[EvilKing00]

Send me a pm with your address, b happy to help the kids!

[Jewish-collector]

Brian - Send me a PM with your address too.

[K-Nole]

I can see where the scam word would come into place.
The OP has 10 posts and 5 of them are in This thread.
He has only been a member for 3 months.
And if he is a collector, why wouldn't he give his own cards away from his collection.


With that being said, if you send junk 90's stuff, then who cares, right?

[Batter67up]

I would think the OP would have his students write a Thank You note to the Net54 members thanking everyone for their donations. That is typically what happens when a class or group receives donations that support their hobby or class. Who knows or really cares if your getting snow jobbed

[Fred]

Brian,

I think what you're doing is pretty cool. Can you please tell me how you're using the cards? Are you teaching math with stats? Are you teaching the kids about collectibles (in general) and how condition could matter? It'd be neat to find out how the cards are being used. I wish I had a teacher that incorporated baseball cards into a lesson plan.

Who knows, maybe some of the guys on the board could come up with different ideas on how you could use the cards as a teaching aid. Since you're looking for 90's cards I would figure you must be teaching a fire fighting course... (you know, set those things a blaze and teach the kids how to put out fires)

It's always nice to see someone that's just trying to make a difference.

[larrie804]

I think this thread is great! I commend the teacher for his efforts AND the Net54 Board members for there response! I would recommend that Board members also contact their local schools to see if their teachers would be interested in donated cards. My wife was a teacher for almost 40 years. Teachers in the elementary schools in our area have "prize boxes"....where children may select a "prize/gift". These prizes/gifts are incentives for the students. For many years I have provided three of our local elementary schools with "team bags" in which I pack 18-20 commons and 5-7 star cards. The teachers report that these are the most popular of the "prizes" in their goody boxes. Also, indirectly related I had a Stamp club in my wife's school for fourth and fifth grade students. IT was another way to interest students in a hobby. BTW: I am NOT asking for ANY donated cards....I have tens of thousands to still give!

"Snow jobbed". That's really original. I have NEVER heard anything similar poking fun of my last name.

"Scam". Seriously? So I give my REAL name, my place of employment, my Principal's name......and you think that all points to a SCAM. Guess you got me......I joined a national board that is the best I have ever seen and ran a scam using my REAL name and place of employment to get a bunch of 1990 Donruss commons and penny sleeves. Seriously?

Any yes, Thank You letters are planned from my kids.

With that being said, my class met 3 days last week and we will meet for the 4th time today. Last week, I gauged interest in the hobby and what previous knowledge kids had about collecting. I then got an idea of what players or teams each student would be interested in collecting.

After that, we started delving in to the history of baseball cards. We looked at the late 1880's issues and worked up to the T cards of the early 1900's. Of course, we talked about the T206 Wagner and even viewed a 15 minute documentary (OTL on ESPN) about the fake Wagner floating around today. I am a history teacher, so we even tied in card collecting to pop culture and the roaring 20's. I plan on moving into the 30-40's this week and using the rest of January and early February to get to how baseball cards have evolved to present-day. I will do the same for Football and Basketball cards in February.

As for the uses of your donations, we will have one day a week where I make up goody bags and students will vie for the ones they want. We will have various ways of seeing who gets what. We will also use them in learning about condition and especially proper storage. A few kids have brought in their cards and I cringe when I see how they store them. There really isn't a cross-curricular requirement for the class as far as teaching math skills using statistics or even the geography of where players were born, but I'm still going to include an "academic" lesson from time to time.

I am also really hoping to have time to allow kids to trade cards. That teaches social and bargaining skills and even brings the process of economics into the class.

All I know is I was so pumped to see how interested they were when we started looking at pictures of cards on the LCD projector. They were amazed with the story of the Wagner, and I am confident they will love the story about the 52 Topps High series and other interesting tidbits about our wonderful hobby.