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Mr. Colarusso from Chula Vista CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My students need latex gloves and dissection pans to do dissections...and the craftsman is only as good as their equipment.

  • $191 goal

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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

Dissection specimens are expensive, and they can only be used once. It makes sense to maximize the effectiveness of their use by making sure that all of the correct materials are supplied.

Our students are motivated and excited young people.

Their first dissection, however, may be met with a bit of trepidation. Things can be a bit intimidating, so we want to make sure that they have everything that they need, so they can simply focus on the job at hand.

My Project

If a student is a bit awed by the first confrontation with a preserved specimen, the gloves offer a psychological barrier as well as a physical one. Beautiful new trays will not only make the experience seem more clean and surgical, but it will also assure that no fluids leak out and traumatize the students.

It is a medical biology class, so dissection is a good learning tool for anatomical and physiological topics...but it is also fun for the students because it is similar to performing surgical techniques like they may have been inspired by previously.

Mr. Colarusso
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
PAN 11.5X7.5'' FLEX PAD AND CVR EA • Frey Scientific $11.66 8 $93.28
GLOVES LATEX MEDIUM PACK OF 100 • Frey Scientific $9.26 2 $18.52
GLOVES LATEX LARGE PACK OF 100 • Frey Scientific $8.99 2 $17.98

Materials cost

$129.78

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$161.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.54

Total project goal

$190.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $190.27

1 Donor

-$183.00

Donations toward project cost

-$155.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.45

match offer

-$7.27

Match offer toward project cost

-$6.18

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.09

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 $0.00

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