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Ms. Rutherford from Girdwood AK is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Don't Learn in a Vacuum--Get Hands-on Science

Help me give my students the hands-on Science lab equipment they need to learn about air pressure and vacuums.

  • $640 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

In a town with a population of under 2,000, surrounded by seven glaciers, our public school of 211 pre-K through eighth-grade students is the hub of our local community. Due to COVID-19, all our instruction has been moved to online distance education. Your donations are needed now more than ever to help us ensure quality education is available to all students.

My Project

Students learn best when they can experience science through hands-on exploration. In our virtual education world, that means sending essential science lab equipment home so students can do more than just passively watch demonstration videos on-line.

Help us bring Science to life by providing our at-home students' bell jar vacuums to experiment with and discover for themselves the wonders of air pressure.

By exploding marshmallows, expanding balloons, boiling water, and silencing clocks, bell jar vacuums help make the invisible--visible. Wonder and excitement abound as one experiment sparks another in search of solving the mysteries of air under pressure.

Help support our students' natural curiosities by providing them with bell jar vacuums. Learn-by-doing lessons like these are ones that last a lifetime.

Ms. Rutherford
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bell Jar and Vacuum Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $49.86 10 $498.60

Materials cost

$498.60

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$7.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$543.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.92

Total project goal

$639.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$639.48

4 Donors

-$305.16

Donations toward project cost

-$284.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.98

match offer

-$305.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$259.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.17

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$0.00

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