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Completed: My Students Need Help Seeing the Small Picture.

"I am honored to teach in a rural school district in southern Mississippi. Although the students I teach have been told that Mississippi is at the bottom of most good lists and the top of most of the bad ones we do not let that discourage us from striving for excellence. Our school motto is “When better is attainable, good enough is unacceptable.” We acknowledge that there are problems in our state but we as a whole are good people who are working to bring Mississippi into a new and brighter era. I teach Biology I, Biology II and AP Biology. These classes are taken by students in the 9th through 12th grades.

Our school has a majority of free and reduced lunch students. These students are exempt from all lab fees. While I agree that this concept makes sense it can make it very difficult to purchase necessities. Science classes were designed with labs because they help to bring home the topics that are introduced and without funds labs can be difficult and sometimes impossible to perform.

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I need your help to bring home some of the abstract topics that we uncover in high school Biology. Many of these topics are hard to grasp for students because they have only seen illustrations in a book of mitosis or the cell wall of a plant. If we can give students another way of looking at these concepts we may help them to see things in a different way. By showing students prepared slides we can help them to see the topics that we discuss. This vision will help them to succeed and this success can help them to move forward towards becoming productive citizens of Mississippi.

My project needs these slides to help start a microscope slide library to benefit my students. The cost of this proposal is $388, which includes shipping for any materials requested and fulfillment ."

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Ms. P. sent this note after the project was fully funded:

Oct 31, 2007

Dear Diana,

I would like to express my heart-felt thanks for your generous donation. It was very gracious of you to make this donation to benefit my students. My students will be positively impacted this year and for years to come. Again thank you and please know that your kindness is appreciated.

On Jan 16, 2008, Ms. P. followed this note with student letters sent via mail to the donor who completed this project, and to donors who gave $100 or more.

Ms. P.'s Classroom: High Poverty School

Region:

Mississippi

Where is the classroom located?

Submitted:

Sep 19, 2007 |

Expires:

May 18, 2008

Great news -- this project is now a reality! We ordered the materials and they were sent directly to the classroom.

Materials	Vendor	Price	#	Total
70-4022 SURVEY OF ANIMALS SLIDE ST/20	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$50.00	1	$50.00
Bacteria Structure NEO/GUIDE® - Class Set (1 Set of 5)	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$39.95	1	$39.95
Human Sex Indicators – 6 Slides, Microslides, Genetics	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$66.00	1	$66.00
Nerve Tissue Types, Microscope Slides	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$55.00	1	$55.00
Animal and Plant Cell, Microscope Slides	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$14.95	1	$14.95
Slime Molds, Microscope Slides	Frey Scientific, Inc.	$34.95	1	$34.95

Vendor Shipping Charges				$26.10
State Sales Tax				$18.26
3rd Party Payment Processing Fee				$3.91
Postage / Processing for Donor Thank-You Package				$9.00
Project Subtotal				$318.12
Optional Donation Towards Operating Costs				$69.83
TOTAL PROJECT COST				$387.95
Given				-$387.95
To Go				$0.00