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Ms. Valdez from Draper UT is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Hands-on Learning is the BEST Kind of Learning!

Help me give my students an aquaponics system and heat, light, sound supplies!

  • $986 goal

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My Students

My students are great. They are mostly hard workers, who want to be in school. They are eager learners and love to do hands-on science!

My students thrive with science labs.

They are excited as soon as they walk in the door and see lab supplies on the tables.

My Project

I teach 7th and 8th grade science in a public middle-school setting. My students are excited to learn science, and on the days when we have a lab, the excitement is electric!

My students are craving "normal" science labs, where they can EXPERIENCE the science we're learning about!

The last couple years have been difficult for everyone, including my students. We have students who are no longer excited about school because of the virtual learning that they were subjected to. I want to allow them to experience waves, light, color, and sound. I want them to see ecology first hand, with the aquaponics system.

Learning science can be so much fun, and I want my students to fall in love with it through hands-on activities and experiments.

Ms. Valdez
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
AquaSprouts Complete Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $234.00 1 $234.00
Light Box and Optical Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $179.77 1 $179.77
Carolina Introduction to Electromagnetism Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $127.57 1 $127.57
WARDS DETERGENTS FERTILIZERS AS POLLU • Ward's Science $79.99 1 $79.99
Carolina Laser Music Demonstration Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $63.81 1 $63.81
OCEAN WAVE DEMONSTRATION AND LAB ACTIVIT • Ward's Science $39.99 1 $39.99
Newton Color Wheel • Carolina Biological Supply Company $35.95 1 $35.95
TANK WATER WEATHER WATER TANK 4702001 • Ward's Science $34.99 1 $34.99

Materials cost

$796.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$838.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$147.88

Total project goal

$985.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $985.89

1 Donor

-$985.89

Donations toward project cost

-$838.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$147.88

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