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Mrs. SMITH from Pittsburgh PA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Look Alive!

Help me give my students the gift of science! We are updating our stem center to provide our students with the ultimate experience. Staphylococcus epidermidis, Living, Tube will be apart of a handwashing lesson.

  • $675 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

The students at our center are full of energy and life! They are all great friends to one another. They help each other out with projects and homework. Our school agers go from grades k-4th grade.

They love to do research of different places, planets, mountains, volcanoes, oceans and politics!

Our teachers work with them to encourage them to learn about things that they don't see on a daily basis. They are strategic in their learning and always ready to!

My Project

These materials will allow our teachers to help children understand science and how and why they can become sick do to poor handwashing skills. We will also explore DNA and RNA with our older students. Teachers will implement various lesson plans with the use of microscopes and magnifying glasses.

Our students will be wowed with all of the live specimens that we can view each week.

The students will also learn to observe and document how plants grow with the help of weather and atmosphere changes. Plants from our lesson plans will be grown and taken home in the spring.

Mrs. SMITH
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
STC Literacy Series: Organisms, Pack of 8 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $95.95 1 $95.95
Active Transport in Yeast Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $61.69 1 $61.69
Yeast Observation Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $58.86 1 $58.86
STC Literacy Series: Exploring My Weather • Carolina Biological Supply Company $25.95 2 $51.90
Pigmented Bacteria Set, Plate Cultures, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $51.25 1 $51.25
Fungi, Basic Mold Showplate Set, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $37.21 1 $37.21
STCKindergarten: Exploring My Weather Two-Use Refurbishment Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $36.95 1 $36.95
Seed, Wisconsin Fast Plants, Pack of 200 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $24.98 1 $24.98
Escherichia coli, K-12 Strain, Living, Plate • Carolina Biological Supply Company $13.72 1 $13.72
Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium, Living, Plate • Carolina Biological Supply Company $13.68 1 $13.68
Staphylococcus epidermidis, Living, Tube • Carolina Biological Supply Company $10.75 1 $10.75
Amoeba proteus, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.65 1 $7.65
Anabaena, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.65 1 $7.65
Oscillatoria, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.65 1 $7.65
Gloeocapsa, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.65 1 $7.65

Materials cost

$487.54

Vendor shipping charges

$48.75

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$573.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.22

Total project goal

$674.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$674.82

5 Donors

-$537.41

Donations toward project cost

-$456.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.61

match offer

-$137.41

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.80

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.61

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$0.00

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