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Mr. Cunningham from Bridgeport, CT is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Strange BioChemistry Explorations of Eighth Graders

Help me give my students essential materials to create a closed system to monitor observe the biochemical processes of life.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Cunningham's classroom raised $587

This project is fully funded

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Most of our middle school students enter this year below grade level in reading and math. Our school is a neighborhood school with mostly low-income families with many students having siblings in lower grades. All of my students receive free lunch under the federal Title I program. Fifty percent of my students this year are formally identified with Special Needs including ASD, SLD, and many English Language Learners. Some have social anxiety and class presentations/public speaking are very hard for them.

My students, many with special needs, come from low-income households, yet they come to school every day excited to learn.

Engaging them in meaningful ways, and creating a rigorous, hands-on science classroom/lab environment is a necessity. They demand the best from me, and I strive to give them the best learning experience I can. My focus remains to give the students access to the best, grade-level appropriate equipment for our active science investigations.

My Project

As a teacher, I am excited to see that our students will be returning to school this January in a Hybrid schedule. We have been long overdue for a sort of a normal classroom environment. Eighth grade students will return to the classroom to complete units in the areas of genetics and biochemistry. The biochemistry unit will explore the many bio-chemical energy transfers that occur in and power living things, from internal thermal energy, potential/kinetic muscular energy and electromagnetic energy present in photosynthesis and human Vitamin D production.

This project will allow my students to safely complete their Eighth Grade Chemistry unit amid COVID-19 restrictions but still safely explore the biochemical processes of digestion, respiration and photosynthesis and the many intricacies that make life alive.

Despite the hardships of the current learning environment, my students need to return to a state where we "do" science. They are an eager group of students who deserve the hands-on learning they are used to but in safe and adapted COVID compliant setting. These materials will benefit all students whether they are present or remote on the lab activity days.

Mr. Cunningham Waltersville Elementary School Grades 6-8

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.

Bridgeport, CT 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bell Jar-Clsd Top w Knb 11 L 8IDx15 • Ward's Science $267.75 1 $267.75
MOLYMOD INORGANIC-ORGANIC TCHER SET • Frey Scientific $45.22 2 $90.44
MORTAR/PESTLE 400ML • Frey Scientific $17.92 4 $71.68
TUBES MICROCENTRIFUGE 1.5ML PACK OF 500 • Frey Scientific $10.87 1 $10.87

Materials cost

$440.74

Vendor shipping charges

 $20.76

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$498.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.90

Total project goal

$586.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $586.01

3 Donors

-$284.18

Donations toward project cost

-$256.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.63

match offer

-$284.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$241.56

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.63

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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