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Ms. Valdez from Houston TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning to Love the Bird (& Toad & Snake &...) People

My students need 2 pairs of binoculars and a digital camera.

  • $1,062 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

If you don't know that something exists, you won't miss it when it's gone. My students have grown up without learning or caring much about nature. To most of them, all birds are the same--and don't even talk about the snakes! It often only takes one great closeup look to change that attitude.

My biology students are urban public high school students.

Like all teenagers, they are social animals. Nature is not something they normally think about. When we go exploring outside in small groups, however, as part of a science assignment, they get interested and enthusiastic about what they find. Discoveries made outside will outlast almost anything they might learn in the classroom.

My Project

Just as a good hand lens is essential for observing many beautiful details of a flower, a good pair of binoculars is critical for appreciating birds and other wildlife. We already have a few pairs of binoculars, and use them as part of a birding project that gives each bio student a chance to learn how to make observations and collect data about birds and their behavior. We would like to use a camera with a long distance zoom to document the birds we see, so kids can share their discoveries. Having a few more pairs of good binoculars will give more students the chance to see amazing things that often go unnoticed.

By funding this project, you'll help teachers at our school show our students some of the diversity and beauty of the natural world around them.

You'll also support a way for students to share with others what they have discovered.

Ms. Valdez
Grades 9-12
  • Kerr High School
  • Houston, TX
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 250 students.

    1 donor has given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sony - Cyber-shot DSC-H90 16.1-Megapixel Digital Camera - Black • Best Buy $249.99 1 $249.99
Binoculars, Extreme Contrast, Magnification 10 x 26, Field of View 290 ft., Prism Type Roof, Length (In.) 4-3/4, Width (In.) 4-1/3, Height (In.) 2, Lens Coating Color Adjusted Transmission, Min. Distance (Ft.) 12, Tripod Mountable No, Weather Resista • Grainger $272.03 2 $544.06

Materials cost

$794.05

Vendor shipping charges

$66.41

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$902.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$159.24

Total project goal

$1,061.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,061.61

1 Donor

-$1,061.61

Donations toward project cost

-$902.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$159.24

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$0.00

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