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Mrs. Maxwell from Longview, TX is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Circle of Life

Help me give my students the materials needed to be able to watch the life cycle of a butterfly and lady bug happen right in our very own classrooms!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Maxwell's classroom raised $629

This project is fully funded

My Project

My team and I are ready to really bring in the Spring season and kick off our life cycle unit by raising some butterflies and lady bugs in our very own classroom.

Every year this is always something that the students enjoy and look forward to!

It's so exciting to come to school and see what has changed with our little bugs.

We will be recording the changes we see take place and discussing what is going on in each insects life cycle. By the end of our life cycle unit our kids will be knowledgeable in being able to identify the stages they go through and they will have witnessed it with their very own eyes.

Mrs. Maxwell Birch Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Longview, TX 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

160 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Painted Lady Butterfly Amazing Bugs Kit (with live caterpillars) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $31.50 8 $252.00
Educational Insights GeoSafari Jr. Ladybug Garden Lady Beetle Larvae (Coleomegilla maculata), Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $13.45 8 $107.60

Materials cost

$359.60

Vendor shipping charges

 $139.13

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$534.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.26

Total project goal

$628.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $628.38

5 Donors

-$376.91

Donations toward project cost

-$342.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.04

match offer

-$225.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$191.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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 $0.00

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