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Mrs. Rudtke from Alachua, FL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Save Our Water Supply with Captain Planet!

My students need an EcoSTEM Water Kit collection of hands-on learning tools.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Rudtke's classroom raised $848

This project is fully funded

My Students

"I love science!" is what every teacher loves to hear! Wouldn't it be exciting to see 5th grade science science students engaged, asking questions, and collecting data? Students are natural scientists!

Our students love to learn!

We teach at a Title I school where most of the students are on free or reduced price lunch. They come to school with little more than a thirst for knowledge. We do everything we can to give them lots of opportunities for hands-on learning and to be real scientists.

My Project

The EcoSTEM Water Kit is a collection of hands-on learning tools that help teach students the importance of our watersheds. This kit will allow students to model evaporation and precipitation. Students will be able to monitor water quality and investigate water health through testing and searching for pollution-sensitive organisms. Students will be able to test actual samples to explore how pollution affects our oceans and wildlife.

Students will have the opportunity to be citizen scientists.

Our students will design and participate in a community education project where they can share what they learned and help to teach others how to prevent how to protect and keep our watershed healthy.

Mrs. Rudtke Alachua Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
EcoSTEM Water Kit • Amazon Business $665.00 1 $665.00

Materials cost

$665.00

Vendor shipping charges

$14.99

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$719.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.05

Total project goal

$847.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$847.02

8 Donors

-$423.50

Donations toward project cost

-$359.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.52

match offer

-$423.52

Match offer toward project cost

-$359.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.53

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$0.00

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