You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Mrs. Vaughn’s Classroom Edit display name

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Vaughn a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Mrs. Vaughn's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Vaughn a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Mrs. Vaughn can use on her next classroom project.

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/vaughnj

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
The materials that I am requesting for my classroom, a 55-gallon tank along with new lamps, a heating pad, a cricket keeper, and cricket food, will be used to help upgrade our class pet’s home. We were blessed to receive a bearded dragon through a classroom pet grant. The students have fallen in love with our Stella. However, Stella is growing so quickly she will soon outgrow the 20-gallon enclosure she came with. Stella will require more room and additional materials to heat the new enclosure. Having a class pet has been a huge incentive for many of my students to study a little harder in order to have extra time to interact with our bearded dragon. A prime example of this is a student who had not been especially successful in science this year. He loves the bearded dragon and interacts with Stella every opportunity he has. I suggested to him that he could hold her if he passed an upcoming science test. I was just hoping for a passing grade, but he was hoping for a little more. He scored a 90; this is just one example of many! Many of my students are from low-income families, and many have never had the opportunity to have a pet, especially a reptile. We study animal kingdoms in 6th grade. It has been a wonderful hands on experience for my students to be able to hold and/or touch a reptile and see the special qualities that only reptiles possess. Stella has also helped my students to learn what it’s like to be reponsible for another living creature.

About my class

The materials that I am requesting for my classroom, a 55-gallon tank along with new lamps, a heating pad, a cricket keeper, and cricket food, will be used to help upgrade our class pet’s home. We were blessed to receive a bearded dragon through a classroom pet grant. The students have fallen in love with our Stella. However, Stella is growing so quickly she will soon outgrow the 20-gallon enclosure she came with. Stella will require more room and additional materials to heat the new enclosure. Having a class pet has been a huge incentive for many of my students to study a little harder in order to have extra time to interact with our bearded dragon. A prime example of this is a student who had not been especially successful in science this year. He loves the bearded dragon and interacts with Stella every opportunity he has. I suggested to him that he could hold her if he passed an upcoming science test. I was just hoping for a passing grade, but he was hoping for a little more. He scored a 90; this is just one example of many! Many of my students are from low-income families, and many have never had the opportunity to have a pet, especially a reptile. We study animal kingdoms in 6th grade. It has been a wonderful hands on experience for my students to be able to hold and/or touch a reptile and see the special qualities that only reptiles possess. Stella has also helped my students to learn what it’s like to be reponsible for another living creature.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":4313561,"teacherId":4313561,"teacherName":"Mrs. Vaughn","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4313561_272x272.png?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1546223120586","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"vaughnj","teacherChallengeId":21335617,"followAbout":"Mrs. Vaughn's projects","teacherVerify":1279035519,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Vaughn","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/vaughnj","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4313561","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":3,"numSupporters":35},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.