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Mrs. Jones from Ogallala NE is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Bike Pumps And Brains

Help me give my students brain models and a bicycle pump for pressure experiments.

  • $468 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are amazing, highly involved, and motivated kids that deserve the best education despite their rural location. If they are in my classes then they have chosen to challenge themselves with learning upper-level science content that will benefit them as they continue their education after high school. Many are considering careers in health sciences, engineering, and the hard sciences. They are involved and successful in as many school activities as possible, and therefore, have talents in many areas.

One of the things I absolutely love about my students is their love for learning and for science.

Many of my students are involved in our science club, and their motivation in class is very high because they are able to apply many of the concepts to science competitions the club attends. My classroom is very student-centered and I spend most of my time just facilitating the students to discover and learn together. A classroom with lots of hands-on learning is key to allowing my students to learn content at a deeper level.

My Project

Sometimes you just realize there are some items that would really help your students learn better! These are two that I recently needed in my classroom and didn't have. In my physics and anatomy classes, our water bottle rocket project, lung project, and some of our other pressure-related projects have been lacking as our bicycle pump that we currently have is broken. This device will help my students complete their projects that explore and exemplify Newton's laws and principles of air resistance.

Learning in a hands-on way always seems to lead to deeper understanding, which will be easier with brain models.

My students will be able to go past the paper diagram labeling and actually hold a model of the organ. When students can physically interact with something, rather than just on paper, comprehension increases.

Mrs. Jones
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
MODEL REGIONAL BRAIN COLOR CODED • Ward's Science $157.25 2 $314.50
PUMP TIRE • Ward's Science $27.37 1 $27.37

Materials cost

$341.87

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$20.51

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$397.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.15

Total project goal

$467.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$467.66

1 Donor

-$397.51

Donations toward project cost

-$397.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$70.15

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$0.00

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