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Ms. Keys from Yonkers, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Our Whole 1st Grade Experience The Miracle Of Life

My students need incubators and Life Cycle Sets to help us experience the miracle of life in our class rooms.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Keys's classroom raised $1,232

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Our 1st grade students live in a low income urban environment. They are surrounded by apartment buildings and concrete. They are very limited in their exposure to nature and the science behind it. Many of our students don't even have a pet. This project will include all the 1st graders in our school

Early exposure to science is a very important factor related to students interest in later grade levels, and frankly our students are missing out.

This year I would love to help provide a hands on life science project for all of the first graders in our school. I have had the pleasure of teaching the life cycle of a chick using an incubator to hatch chicks in the classroom. Each time it has been an amazing learning experience that my students never forget. They actually learn the stages of development that an egg goes through and get to watch live chicks hatch in the classroom. They write about all the changes in their science journal and best of all they get to hold them, name them, and care for them after they hatch. I still have older students come back and tell me how they remember hatching our chicks. They even remember the names we gave them.

My Project

In order for our 80 first grade students to experience this project we need incubator sets that include incubators with a viewer window and automatic egg turners. We also need special thermometers to insure that our eggs have ideal conditions and chick life cycle sets to give each class a 3-D view of the changes that happen inside the egg on each of the 21 days.

Our first graders need exposure to the sciences and this project is an excellent way to get them interested in the world around them.

We would greatly appreciate any donation you can give. Thanks for considering our children.

Ms. Keys Museum School 25 Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Yonkers, NY View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chick Life Cycle Exploration Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $37.05 4 $148.20
Incubator Set, Still-Air Picture Window, 110 V • Carolina Biological Supply Company $175.75 3 $527.25
Incubator Thermometer • Carolina Biological Supply Company $8.12 4 $32.48
Compact Sling Psychrometer • Carolina Biological Supply Company $49.87 4 $199.48

Materials cost

$907.41

Vendor shipping charges

 $90.74

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$1,046.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.72

Total project goal

$1,231.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,231.48

28 Donors

-$1,231.48

Donations toward project cost

-$1,046.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$184.72

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