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Mr. Leigh from Prairie Du Sac WI is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

We Could SOILtainly Use Some Help...

Help me give my students the tools they need to investigate soil make-up and health with these La Motte testing kits and garden kits.

  • $1,003 goal

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My Students

This spring we will offer, after a 3 year hiatus, a geology course for our students.

Our students are, simply put, wonderfully inquisitive.

I am constantly surprised at the number of students who are extremely interested in how our world was built.

To help feed our students' curiosity, we need to add equipment to feed their curiosity and help them develop their knowledge of our geologic features so that as they tour our world, in particular many of our wonderful state and national parks, they will have a better understanding of how and why those features look the way they do.

My Project

These La Motte soil testing kits will enhance our student field experiences. Often times in geology, field trips are limited to "hike and see" experiences. Those field trips are valuable. However, providing students with the chance to collect and analyze meaningful data with increased engagement and excitement in the sciences leads to a better learning experience. We are fortunate to go to school in a very geologically unique area. We have glaciated, terminal moraine, outwash plains and driftless areas all within a 15 minute drive of our school. These soil test kits will help us provide these engaging experiences in our geology course by allowing them to compare multiple potentially very different soil samples.

Mr. Leigh
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LaMotte Garden Kit • Amazon Business $67.99 6 $407.94
LaMotte 5261-01 Micronutrient Plant Tissue Test Kit • Amazon Business $134.05 3 $402.15

Materials cost

$810.09

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$852.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.40

Total project goal

$1,002.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,002.64

2 Donors

-$506.32

Donations toward project cost

-$430.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.95

match offer

-$496.32

Match offer toward project cost

-$421.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.45

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$0.00

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