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Ms. Smith from Minneapolis MN is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Duck, Duck, Quack! We Are Hatching Ducklings in Kindergarten!

Help me give my students an incubator for an amazing hands-on experience of hatching ducklings. This will be one of their greatest memories of kindergarten!

  • $617 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My name is Ms. Smith, and I have the opportunity to teach 27 imaginative and creative kindergartners. I love teaching this age with their wide range of learning styles and unbelievable enthusiasm for all things. I teach at a school with diverse students and very engaged families. I strive to create a differentiated classroom giving all my students the ability to make a year's growth.

I believe school should be hands-on, engaging and meaningful for every student.

I work each day to create a classroom where children are motivated, respectful, responsible and independent thinkers. I hope each child who enters my classroom notices the wonder in the world around them. Thank you for your support!

My Project

My students live in a major city, and few, if any have had the chance to experience farm animals up close. Our Animals 2x2 science unit allows us to compare and contrast different species, but does not allow us to observe an entire life cycle!

Donations to my project will improve engagement and focus my students' energy on an important area of science and life.

Students are curious and intrigued by animal life. The incubator and materials that support close observation of developing chicks will help students understand the health and growth of embryos.

For 28 days, the class will take daily measurements of the eggs (weighing each egg over time), monitored growth through a candler, make sure the eggs are rotated and kept at the temperature and humidity the eggs need to grow ducklings inside. We DO have a home on a farm for these ducks we will hatch. QUACK QUACK!

Ms. Smith
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
INCUBATOR MAXI II ADV CLASS PACK • Frey Scientific $435.58 1 $435.58

Materials cost

$435.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $52.27

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$524.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.54

Total project goal

$616.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $616.92

3 Donors

-$616.92

Donations toward project cost

-$524.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.54

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 $0.00

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