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Mr. Munselle from Kailua, HI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Munselle's classroom raised $1,062

Moving into the Future: Updating Physical Education

My students need a 15 medicine balls (3 different lbs) and 12 body balls (3 different sizes) to improve their core fitness and educate them to modern exercise techniques.

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Mr. Munselle Kalaheo High School
Kailua, HI Grades 9-12

My Students

Basketball, volleyball, softball, and soccer are not meeting the needs or interests of today's student. We need core classes, yoga, pilates, kickboxing, and aerobics to promote a healthy and active lifestyle in today’s world.

My students are a dynamic mix of cultures and ethnicities.

Being near a large military base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean my student’s converge on Oahu for a variety of reasons. My classes are made up of Filipino, Samoan, Hawaiian, Japanese, and Caucasian young men and women who were brought in the search of a better life, more opportunity, the military, and their homeland. This mix of people creates a unique, and at times challenging, opportunity to bring people together. One young man who stands out is PJ, not his real name. Brought here to Oahu from a small Polynesian Island for a major surgery to lengthen one of his femurs by 5 inches, he has grown equally in character to match his now balanced 6’3” frame. The diversity of students was never more apparent than when my newest student, all 5’1” of him, walked into the classroom as a military transfer from Missouri. There are just two examples of the students who make up our school.

My Project

Nearly daily we hear our children are becoming more overweight, obese, and sedentary. This message has reached Washington with Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, the allocation of 16 million dollars to the Prevention of Obesity and Fitness as announced by the Secretary of HHS Ms. Sebelius. The time has come to transform our current out of date PE curriculum that is based on team sports to a more modern and appropriate curriculum based around promoting physical activity and individualizing activity to the student. My students need a variety of exercise tools (med balls, body balls, exer. tubes) to match each student’s ability and needs with the goal to promote activity. Current research shows us that only 3% of adults over the age of 25 participate in regular team sports, clearly teaching “The Big 5” sports in PE are not helping our students lead a active and healthy life. By helping us, the donor will aid in our transition from the lacking “old school” PE to the motivating “NEW PE.”

PE has the unique opportunity to impact every student through class, intramural, afterschool fitness programs, and sports nights.

This donation will not only improve the students’ physical well being but their mental well being too. Dr. John J. Ratey’s book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, lays out the startling and significant benefits of exercise on brain function. The positive effects of a quality PE will be exercised throughout the entire school community.

More than a third of students from low‑income households

300 students impacted 23 donors
Mr. Munselle Kalaheo High School Grades 9-12 Kailua, HI View local requests

More than a third of 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

300 students impacted 23donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MEDICINE BALL-GREEN-SPORTIME STRENGTH 4 KG • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $23.74 5 $118.70
MEDICINE BALL SPORTIME STRENGTH 5 KG • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $25.64 5 $128.20
MEDICINE BALL SPORTIME STRENGTH 3 KG • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $21.84 5 $109.20
BALL PHYSIO GYMNIC 65CM/25.5 VINYL GREEN • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $23.74 4 $94.96
BALL INFLATABLE PHYSIO GYMNIC 85CM BLUE • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $56.99 4 $227.96
BALL PHYSIO GYMNIC 55CM/21.5 VINYL ORANGE • Sportime, Inc/School Specialty $21.84 4 $87.36

Materials cost

$766.38

Vendor shipping charges

 $76.64

Sales tax

 $33.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$923.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.96

Total project goal

$1,061.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,061.20

19 Donors

-$1,061.20

Donations toward project cost

-$927.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$133.61

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.74

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 $0.00

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