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Ms. Miller from Port Saint Lucie FL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Energy and Food Chain Lab!

My students need 2 mallow plans and a replacement set for our butterfly kit to understand energy loss and trophic levels.

  • $174 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

With unbelievable budget cuts, I'm finding it harder and harder to fund the amazing and exciting labs I do each year.

Our area is seeing the economic crisis every day.

Unemployment is huge, and education budgets are gone. Students are lucky to get their own personal school supplies donated, and the teachers are left picking up the rest. Some of the more exciting and expensive labs are the ones left out of the curriculum... just because of money.

My Project

The butterfly lab I do is awesome. We separate the larvae and weigh them every day. Why is it that nothing goes in or out of the cup, but it weighs less every day? Shouldn't the caterpillar eat the food and take on the mass? And how is it that a butterfly is so light? In this lab, we don't just add butterflies to our environment (bonus!), we explore the laws of thermodynamics, energy transfer, and primary productivity. I get to cover so many topics with just one lab!

The students LOVE butterflies.

Who wouldn't? By using them to teach such a huge range of topics (we even touch on pollution and impacts), they get so excited. Most even ask how they can set up butterfly gardens at home and watch all summer. Please help inspire!

Ms. Miller
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mallow Plant, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $10.21 2 $20.42
Painted Lady Life Cycle BioKit Replacement Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $80.75 1 $80.75

Materials cost

$101.17

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.12

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$147.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.08

Total project goal

$173.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $173.89

8 Donors

-$169.48

Donations toward project cost

-$147.81

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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