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Mrs. MacKinnon from Brockton MA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's DO Science

Help me give my students the opportunity to manipulate science tools in the classroom with the Balance Triple Beam VWR TLW-611.

  • $269 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are eager to learn and impress everyday they arrive to school.

I teach in a large urban district in Massachusetts where school funding has been attacked.

My students are racially and economically diverse and I am working hard within the classroom to level the playing field. More than 3/4 of the students qualify for the free and reduced lunch program and our district provides breakfast in the classroom to help start our student off each day on the right foot.

My Project

Teaching students about lab equipment without giving them the opportunity to use the tool is shameful. My students need the chance to find the mass of objects by moving the slides and determing the mass using triple beam balances.

Building the practical skills in measurement is critical for my students.

Having the understanding of mass and what different masses look like transfers to science at all levels. Having the chance to start this investigation in 6th grade would build more confident and interested learners.

Help me give my students the chance to see what mass looks like and how it is measured right within my classroom.

Mrs. MacKinnon
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BALANCE TRIPLE BEAM VWR TLW-611. • Ward's Science $97.75 2 $195.50

Materials cost

$195.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$228.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.31

Total project goal

$268.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $268.74

1 Donor

-$268.74

Donations toward project cost

-$228.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.31

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