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Ms. Jones-Robinson from Paterson NJ is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Discovering Life Through Living Systems

Help me give my students the experience of creating volcanoe, simulating earthquakes and observing the butterfly lid cycle. They’re Education is minimized because they are in an overpopulated urban area. Help me serve their minds.

  • $559 goal

This project expired on May 25, 2020.

This project expired on May 25, 2020.

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My Students

My students are knowledge thirsty children that WANT a hands on learning environment. They live in an socially, recreationally, and educationally underserved urban city that seems to only offer crime as a means to an end. I believe in the same philosophy of Booker T. Washington’s when he expressed the needs of African Americans; our children need to learn life skills and the academic tie to those skills in order to have any chance of upward movement. However, without the right tools/equipment, that will not be possible.

My Project

Some people are not audio/visual learners. Most of us need the hands on experience in order to understand the concept. My classes are made up of 94% tactile learners because their reading and listening for understanding scores are very low. These materials will offer an opportunity for concrete and tangible understanding. Once my students begin to experience experiments through a hands-on approach, the ability to infer, interpret, conclude and create logic within their minds, will be enhanced. Take for example, the volcanic experiment; students will be able to experience how a volcano works and draw conclusions that chemicals are dangerous.

Ms. Jones-Robinson
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carolina Modeling Tectonic Plate Boundaries Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $111.15 2 $222.30
Volcanic Eruptions • Carolina Biological Supply Company $118.98 1 $118.98
STC Living Materials Order Sheet, The Life Cycle of Butterflies • Carolina Biological Supply Company $57.95 1 $57.95

Materials cost

$399.23

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.92

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$475.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.85

Total project goal

$558.99

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