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

Measuring Scales for Measuring Success!

My students need compact digital scales in order to mass materials during our chemistry labs and become familiar with measuring units.

  • $677 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are eighth graders in an urban district located in Massachusetts. Many of my students are bilingual, speaking Spanish at home and English (or learning English) at school. The district I teach in offers nearly 100% free or reduced lunch, meaning many of my students live at or below the poverty line.

Despite economic challenges, my students are resilient, curious, and incredibly interested in science.

I believe that given the opportunity, I have future physicians, physical therapists, geneticists, zoologists, microbiologists, nurses, chemists, and ecologists (to name a few) sitting in my classroom. I don't teach in a world class school building, but I do teach motivated students who want to make themselves and their parents proud and become the most successful generation in their family.

My Project

The digital scales will be used in the classroom to measure salt, baking soda, active yeast, borax, and sugar, for example. Specific amounts of these materials will be used to observe chemical reactions.

Students will begin to understand the physical properties of substances, as well as study the concept of conservation of mass during a chemical reaction.

Students will use several skills, including working collaboratively, becoming familiar with units, and gaining an appreciation for the precision necessary in a chemistry lab. Students will soon recognize the difference between 2.0 grams, 20 grams, or 200 grams.

Students love the engaging, hands on learning associated with lab activities.

Mrs. Bouchard
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SCALE COMPACT DIGITAL 500G • Frey Scientific $80.09 6 $480.54

Materials cost

$480.54

Vendor shipping charges

$57.66

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$575.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.54

Total project goal

$676.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$676.95

7 Donors

-$511.95

Donations toward project cost

-$435.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.79

match offer

-$165.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$140.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.75

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$0.00

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