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Mrs. Radway from Sioux Falls, SD is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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You LIGHT Up Our Lives!

My students need 6 sets of hands-on experiments to study the basic properties of light.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Radway's classroom raised $306

This project is fully funded

My Students

Help us LIGHT up our lives! We are studying the basic properties of light and have no hands-on materials to aid our learning. With this complex topic, it is extremely important for my students to be able to experiment with light rather than just reading information from a textbook.

I teach in a high poverty, high need community.

Students in my classroom come from homes where parents are working multiple jobs just to make ends meet. They are helping out around the house with daily adult chores rather than being able to live the lives of kids and exploring their world. School is a place where my students come to explore the world around them and is often the only safe place in their lives. They need school to be a place to explore their world hands-on in order to engage them in learning and for information to stick with them long-term.

My Project

The materials for this project will allow for my students to set up, conduct, and analyze experiments to apply the knowledge about light that they have learned from their reading. Because this unit is the first exposure my students have to the basic properties of light, it is extremely important for them to see how these complex concepts work. Through a guided discovery students will learn how light impacts their lives in a variety of ways.

These materials are very important to my students in order to change an otherwise dull topic of technical reading into something exciting and relevant to their lives.

The experiments allow my students to put their worries behind them and dive right into the science that surrounds them day after day. Please help us to LIGHT up our learning by donating to this project!

Mrs. Radway Lowell Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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.

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More than three‑quarters 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Prism + Lens Class Set Of 7 • Sargent-Welch $103.05 1 $103.05
Reflection And Refraction Kit • Sargent-Welch $50.39 1 $50.39
Light (Physical Science Series) Justine Ciovacco, Dan Frank, Jackie Ball • Barnes and Noble $21.09 1 $21.09
Sound and Light Sarah Angliss, David Le Jars (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93
Experiments with Light and Color Tom Jackson • Barnes and Noble $8.97 1 $8.97
Dazzling Science Projects with Light and Color Robert Gardner, Tom LaBaff (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $20.45 1 $20.45

Materials cost

$209.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $11.54

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$259.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.81

Total project goal

$305.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $305.38

6 Donors

-$304.32

Donations toward project cost

-$259.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.06

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