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Mrs. Bolden from Rosedale, MS is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Bare Bones of Learning

Help me give my students hands-on opportunities to learn about the human body by providing them with a life size human skeleton model and a lungs model.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Bolden's classroom raised $834

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are bright, creative, and love the opportunity to explore the world around them with hands-on activities. They love to be able to solve issues to real-world problems during lab activities.

My science students come to class each day with a positive attitude and a fresh perspective for creative thought and scientific exploration.

These students are an inspiration to my life's purpose as an educator.

Our school is a Title I school in the heart of the MS delta. Poverty is the main challenge to every student within our school and also presents major issues to educators because there is a serious lack of available resources. The families that I work with within the community are suffering from the effects of poverty.

My Project

By using a real-life 3D model of a life-size human skeleton, I could give the students the opportunity to visualize, investigate, explore, and understand their own bodies and how they work. This makes the subject come to life and gives the students a reference point to relate to concepts pertaining to their bodies.

When the students can see the life-size human skeleton model and put their hands on it, it makes concrete connections with the material that allows for true learning to take place.

When I teach them about various body systems and am able to use a model to show them what we're talking about, it makes it clear and engages them in the material.

Pedagogy tells us that the best practice for learning is to engage in hands-on activities that help students make real-world connections. This skeleton model and lung model will help my students achieve just that. The skeleton model and lung model will help me, as a teacher, to close gaps and help students truly learn the material and fall in love with science.

Mrs. Bolden West Bolivar High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Rosedale, MS View local requests

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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
3B Human Skeleton, Rod-Supported • Carolina Biological Supply Company $435.60 1 $435.60
Altay Human Segmented Lungs Model • Carolina Biological Supply Company $189.63 1 $189.63

Materials cost

$625.23

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $43.77

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$708.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.01

Total project goal

$833.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $833.39

8 Donors

-$819.35

Donations toward project cost

-$708.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$110.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.04

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