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Mr. Vanzant from Newport NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Echo Echolocation

My students need 14 Go!Motion devices to pair with their chromebooks to replicate how bats and dolphins use echolocation as well as integrate forensic investigations and drag activities while interpreting data.

  • $2,000 goal

This project expired on February 4, 2018.

This project expired on February 4, 2018.

My Students

We are a Title I school located in rural North Carolina and this project will target 240 of the 431 students currently enrolled. Fifty-nine percent of our population receives free and reduced lunch. Our population consists of 83% Caucasian; 8% multi-racial; 5% Hispanic; 3% African American; and 1% Native American.

The students that make up our school community are a mix of those that come with and without means of financial, and parental support.

We have a fairly high percentage of students that receive pantry food bags to ease the burden of the families that make up our community. An extraordinary amount of the young minds from our school are some of the most resilient destined to succeed.

My Project

Students will simulate how dolphins and bats use echolocation to detect prey through Go!Motion devices. This technology will track student movement and then translate those movements into graphs via chromebooks.

Students will develop and hone their analytical skills by interpreting the data created by their movements.

Go!Motion will also be used for engineering projects related to load bearing forces, in which students will infer which vehicles travel at faster rates. The devices also have forensic activities to reenact accident scenes. Student sleuths will analysis data, tying in how acceleration, velocity, and distance all play a role in solving mysteries.

Mr. Vanzant
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Vernier Go! Motion� • Sargent-Welch $109.09 14 $1,527.26

Materials cost

$1,527.26

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$119.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,699.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$299.88

Total project goal

$1,999.18

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