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Mr. Sellers from Atlanta GA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Astronomy Course at Grady High School

My students need sky globes as physical teaching aids to help bring the world of astronomy to their hands.

  • $994 goal

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My Students

Astronomy is a class that is truly "out of this world." However, therein lies the difficulty understanding this awesome science class. Students often times have difficulty understanding such abstract concepts without visual aids.

I teach in an inner city public high school in Atlanta, GA.

The school is a Title 1 school with many challenges. That being said, it has a great sense of community and the students are challenged and rise to meet that challenge most of the time. Astronomy students are usually juniors or seniors who elect to take the course.

My Project

Visual aids in the astronomy classroom bring that sense of reality to this abstract science. The globes that we want are very accurate, as they are made from NASA images. This provides up to date information that is useful for classroom discussions and possible labs. The Sunspotter we want is used in a lab that I wrote- up where the students will track sunspots across the surface.

The visual aids that are requested for the astronomy class are quite expensive due to their very specialized market.

On top of that, the school systems continue to "trim the fat" and unfortunately, new supplies are often times first on the budgetary chopping block. While schools realize their impact on the students, the money is just not available to start up a new program.

Mr. Sellers
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sunspotter • Amazon $349.95 1 $349.95
American Educational Transparent Celestial Star Globe, 12" Diameter • Amazon $190.82 1 $190.82
Venus Globe - 12" With Clear Acrylic Stand • Amazon $99.95 1 $99.95
NASA Moon Globe • Amazon $57.99 1 $57.99
Explorer Globe • Amazon $52.44 1 $52.44

Materials cost

$751.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $51.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$844.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.99

Total project goal

$993.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $993.24

12 Donors

-$402.79

Donations toward project cost

-$362.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.17

Matching donations from our partners

-$566.62

Match offers toward project cost

-$481.63

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.82

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