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Mrs. Hutchings from Gainesville, FL is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Analysizing Fetal Pigs

Help me give my students the opportunity to dissect and use methods of STEM to analyze Fetal Pigs!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Hutchings's classroom raised $476

This project is fully funded

My Project

Many surgeons say that they first discovered their life’s passion standing over a dissected fetal pig in a middle school or high school Science class. I want to give our students their first dissecting experience by dissecting a fetal. This opportunity will give them an appreciation for the complexity of organisms in a hands-on Science lesson they will never forget.

In dissecting an animal, students see, touch, and explore the various body organs and measure and compare them.

Seeing these organs and understanding how they work within a single animal allows students to understand how these systems work within many other animals, including themselves. They increase the opportunity for students to observe, reason, and identify parts that can look nothing like what they have seen in a textbook or imagined in their minds. Science is such an abstract world for middle and high schoolers. Through this lesson, I hope to spark a passion for Science in our students that may someday lead to a future Scientist, Doctor, or Inventor.

Also, I hope that by learning about their bodies through dissection, students will come to respect how their bodies work and think about how they treat them and what they put into them.

I can still remember, as a young student, feeling nervous and excited to experience my first dissection. To give our students this experience would mean a lot.

Mrs. Hutchings AMIkids Gainesville Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Gainesville, FL 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

HBCU Alum 30 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina Forensic Dissection Kit for a Class of 32 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $256.50 1 $256.50
Soft Vinyl PPE Impact Goggles • Nasco $1.96 26 $50.96
Economy Polyethylene Lab Apron Box of 100 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $34.83 1 $34.83
Nitrile Disposable Gloves Large Box of 100 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $21.56 1 $21.56

Materials cost

$363.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.10

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$404.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.37

Total project goal

$475.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $475.78

2 Donors

-$475.78

Donations toward project cost

-$404.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.37

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