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Ms. Shurden from Glendale, AZ is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Chick This Out: Hatching Chicks in Kindergarten

Help me give my students more science experiences by helping fund an incubator so my students can see the amazing development of a chicken as well as life cycle figurines.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shurden's classroom raised $181

This project is fully funded

My Students

My classroom is filled with strong personalities, from my students obsessed with athletics, competition and completing things as fast as possible to my students passionate about art, expressing themselves and coming up with new imaginative games.

They come together to push one another, guide each other and find ways to play collaboratively.

(I'll never forget the day one of my students convinced everyone to play Mario on the playground and all the students ran around pretending to jump on mushrooms and smash bricks in the air)

My Project

As a Kindergarten teacher I feel that provided hands on experiences with science is essential to students development and success. Provides experiences that students do not have access to at home and broadens there thoughts about the world around them. Through out the year our class has made time for; planting in the garden, observing caterpillars, and welcoming a class pet.

Now I want to work towards a chicken life cycle unit!

What better way to teach the life cycle of an animal than by observing a little spec in an egg transform into a cute fluffy chick? As a student my favorite science unit was when my first grade class hatched chicks. I want to bring that same excitement and joy to my classroom and with your help I can make it happen!

Ms. Shurden Desert Palms Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Glendale, AZ View local requests

More than half 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
KEBONNIXS 12 Egg Incubator with Humidity Display, Egg Candler, Automatic Egg Turner, for Hatching Chickens • Amazon Business $93.99 1 $93.99
17 PCS Life Cycle Figures of Frog,Chicken,Sea Turtle, Butterfly, Early Education Animal Figures,Biology Science Toys • Amazon Business $19.90 1 $19.90

Materials cost

$113.89

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$8.14

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$153.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.13

Total project goal

$180.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$180.87

3 Donors

-$123.91

Donations toward project cost

-$105.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.59

match offer

-$56.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$48.42

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.54

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$0.00

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