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Mrs. Crossno from Placentia, CA is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Keeping Clean Is the Way to Go!

Help me give my students a clean and sanitary learning environment, free of dirt and debris.

  • $457 goal

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Hooray! 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 Project

My goal for the project is to get a vacuum mop that I can use in my classroom to clean my tile floors. We all know that students track in mud and dirt from the outside, especially after a rainstorm. This makes the floor dangerously slippery and just aesthetically disgusting. Furthermore, students always drop crumbs and spill their drinks on the floor. As a science teacher, we conduct labs and, inevitably, my floor gets dirty! The custodians can only do so much with their bucket mop. Besides, I want to be able to clean messes when they occur, not after school or taking precious class time to call the office to request the custodian.

Currently, I am using a manual mop that I bought but this only does so much, and just smears the dirt and bacteria around.

With this vacuum mop, I can clean messes as they occur in a breeze. One particular lab that always gives me cleaning nightmares but I continue doing it because my students love it, is the ice cream lab. Milk, cream, and sticky vanilla get everywhere. And my classroom gets coated with salt by the end of the day! To help, I bring in my absorbent paper towels from home as we all know the brown "paper towels" schools provide are not enough. Another example of when this would have been helpful was during an egg osmosis lab, where students soaked the egg in maple syrup. When students dig out the egg, they get syrup everywhere! Once, I had a student drop the beaker with the syrup and made a huge sticky mess. I did the best I could but of course, students walked in it and my floor stayed sticky for weeks!

Mrs. Crossno
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Shark - HydroVac Cordless Pro XL 3-in-1 Vacuum Mop and Self-Cleaning System with LED Headlights XL Clean Tank - Pure Water • Best Buy Education $323.67 1 $323.67

Materials cost

$323.67

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$29.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$388.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.50

Total project goal

$456.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$456.65

2 Donors

-$403.15

Donations toward project cost

-$388.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$53.50

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$0.00

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