You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

This teacher needs your help!

Mrs. Bird from Cincinnati OH is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Mrs. Bird is requesting

Making Measurement Meaningful

My students need consumable supplies and materials to create posters, "Metric Me" books and a Metric Museum.

  • $458 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

About 90 third grade students will arrive in August eager to be writers, scientists and mathematicians. They inevitably ask on the first day of school "Will we do fun projects ?" Much like sneaking vegetables into spaghetti sauce, we can pack a lot of learning into a project.

Our neighborhood school is a Title 1 School; over 98% our 600+ students are economically disadvantaged.

Our children arrive with enthusiasm but without many experiences that they use to build new knowledge. Making Metric Measurement Meaningful for them involves not only exposing them to measurement concepts and tools but providing repeated hands on experiences measuring the length, weight and volume of familiar real world objects and materials.

My Project

We are fortunate to have access to a variety of measurement tools (rulers, meter sticks, beakers and scales). What the requested supplies and materials will do is provide a meaningful context for students. Third grade children by their nature are very concrete. Our students don't always make real world connections to what they are learning unless we explicitly make the connection in the classroom. In addition to completing activities that reveal the need for standard units of measure, operationally define metric measures, and discover the relationship between units; students will practice using measurement to describe one of their favorite subjects - themselves ! Finally students will develop a museum of familiar real world objects to make their new knowledge and vocabulary visible and memorable.

Supporting this project will provide the spaghetti sauce to hide their vegetables in!

The concrete experiences the children will have will allow them to build new knowledge. They will develop self confidence and competence as writers, scientists and mathematicians. They will be eager to begin the next project.

Mrs. Bird
Grades 3-5

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mrs. Bird is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
BOOK RAINBOW BRIGHTS WHITE 32 PG 5-1/2X8-1/2 PACK OF 12 • School Specialty $18.04 8 $144.32
TG DSM II MEASURING • Frey Scientific $82.00 1 $82.00
CRAYONS CRAYOLA 16 COLOR CLASS PACK OF 800 • School Specialty $56.99 1 $56.99
PAPER CHART 24X32 1GRD 25/TBLT - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $9.30 3 $27.90
CHART HEIGHT UNIFIX • School Specialty $9.49 1 $9.49

Materials cost

$320.70

Vendor shipping charges

 $33.71

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$389.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.69

Total project goal

$457.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.91

12 Donors

-$227.18

Donations toward project cost

-$194.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.58

match offer

-$228.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$194.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Support your local school!

Donate directly to any school in the US. Your donation will go towards directly purchasing urgent supplies.

Find a local school

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Bird and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","schoolCity":"Cincinnati","showProjectRecommendations":true,"teachersOnPage":[413774],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"OH","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":2,"name":"Elementary School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"proposalId":1015743,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/making-measurement-meaningful/1015743/","verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":90,"teacherScreenName":"Mrs. Bird","isEquityFocus":true,"authorIds":{"413774":{"owner":"Mrs. Bird","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[1015743],"proposalHash":"-1086904523","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-3_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":296714,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":413774,"schoolCounty":"Hamilton","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"OH","name":"Ohio"}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.