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Ms. Schibuk from Pawtucket, RI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Schibuk's classroom raised $918

Mapping Environmental Toxins in a Post-Industrial Mill Town

My students need a variety of water quality test kits to investigate the water quality of their neighborhood environment.

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Ms. Schibuk Blackstone Academy Charter School
Pawtucket, RI Grades 9-12

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My Students

Research shows that students who are involved in solving real-world problems are more engaged in school (KIDS as Planners). This project allows students to engage in a real-world issue as they investigate the environmental impact of previous unsafe industrial practices in their city.

Our school draws students from two mill towns that have suffered from post-industrial unemployment and industry-related environmental pollution.

Students at our school generally live at or below the poverty line - 74% qualify for free lunch. Economic stressors, low levels of family educational attainment, and education at chronically underperforming primary and middle schools create primarily low-performing students who enter our school in ninth grade. Their skills in math and science are particularly low, but service learning projects such as this one would motivate them to use and increase their skills. This inquiry-based project, which analyzes environmental toxins and connects this data collection to the theme of environmental racism, will help generate interest among science students and help to stem the tide of minority students who typically abandon the study of science in high school (our school is 80% minority).

My Project

Students will use the assortment of test kits purchased to investigate the environmental toxins present in the water sources throughout the area. The students will then use GIS software to create a map of the community that details their findings. Upon analysis of their results, students will assume the role of environmental advocates. They will create a bilingual publication (English and Spanish) that notifies their families, other city residents, officials, and business owners of the potential dangers in our communities. A community-wide event will celebrate the students' work, providing students the opportunity to showcase their learning and help residents think about ways to combat the environmental toxins present in their environment.

Studies by the National Research Council show that students' spatial literacy is infrequently addressed in school, yet is emerging as a critically important skill for jobs in the information-age.

With the final stage of this inquiry project being the geographic mapping of data, students will learn how to process information in an innovative way that considers the spatial-reasoning skills that they will need in the job-force.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

46 students impacted 15 donors
Ms. Schibuk Blackstone Academy Charter School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Pawtucket, RI View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

46 students impacted 15donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Phosphate(Hr) Test Kit • Sargent-Welch $22.46 3 $67.38
Nitrate Test Kit • Sargent-Welch $40.05 3 $120.15
Kit - Coliform Test • Sargent-Welch $84.15 2 $168.30
Waterworks Test Kit • Sargent-Welch $94.50 4 $378.00

Materials cost

$733.83

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$779.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.62

Total project goal

$917.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $917.46

13 Donors

-$916.34

Donations toward project cost

-$779.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$136.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.12

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