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Ms. Clarke from Oakland, CA is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Physics of Music

My students need instruments to engage in a harmonics analysis before designing their own instruments.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Clarke's classroom raised $486

This project is fully funded

My Students

Travel back in time, if you will, to junior year. You are writing college essays and deciding what career paths you are serious considering. The first essay tells you to share some challenge you've overcome and/or share your greatest accomplishment. Here is what my students can say: 80% of their class will graduate (20% higher than the national average); many of them will be the first to go to college, pursuing engineering or medicine; many more struggled to keep up a GPA while working 20 hours a week, and all have worked diligently in classrooms that are undersized and underfunded.

My students are in the backyard of UC Berkeley, a STEM hallmark; yet, they have little hope of going when they attend school in the most underfunded district in the bay.

Just 20 minutes away, my students live in Oakland--an over-stereotyped and underestimated part of the Silicon Valley. This means that we, teachers, have to be "creative" in conducting labs on a $350 per year budget and little technology that will give students a positive experience and prepare students for their medicine, engineering or other desired STEM careers.

My Project

In my physics class, I attempt to make curriculum culturally relevant and fun by teaching concepts through themes like music. In my sound waves/ harmonics students learn about concepts such as frequency, pitch, resonance, and damping though inquiry and hands on labs.

With this project, students will be able to analyze resonance of percussion with instruments that reflect their culture.

Students will use phone apps to record the range of frequencies at different parts of the instruments. Then, students will write a lab report on how these instrument could be changed or improved. Last students will design a new model of an instrument of their choice.

Ms. Clarke Envision Academy of Arts and Technology 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.

Oakland, CA View local requests

More than half of 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

125 students impacted 2donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Street Series Black Onyx Djembe • Woodwind and Brasswind $47.99 3 $143.97
Mini Cajon with Heart Ash Frontplate • Woodwind and Brasswind $29.99 4 $119.96
Freestyle Kente Cloth Rope Tuned Djembe • Woodwind and Brasswind $59.99 1 $59.99
PCDR NEW 30-49 36 MONTH ADH REPLACEMENT PLAN • Woodwind and Brasswind $13.99 1 $13.99
PCDR NEW 5-29 36 MONTH ADH REPLACEMENT PLAN • Woodwind and Brasswind $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$345.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.65

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$412.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.84

Total project goal

$485.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $485.58

2 Donors

-$485.58

Donations toward project cost

-$412.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.84

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