{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Havre High School","outOfStateSupporters":0.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9762692,"projectId":8801720,"letterContent":"In the past, teaching biology students the process that our cells take to go through protein synthesis can be quite challenging. The materials that you provided for my classroom allowed my students a great way to visualize the process by modeling transcription and translation. \r\nThe activity brought many light bulb moments to my students. The biggest \"ah-ha\" moment was the connection of how our genetic makeup is a direct result of the proteins our cells make. The activity you donated to my classroom sets up for the students this scenario: \"As a part of mandatory medical screening procedures, a baby girl's blood is sampled and diagnosed the baby with sickle-cell anemia. The parents are shocked with the news because neither of them has the disease.\" The activity continues as each student progresses through a series of stations located around the room to answer the driving question: \"How could this child develop sickle-cell anemia if neither of her parents had it?\" Each station required students to decode the child's DNA by transcribing DNA into mRNA and then translating the mRNA to the protein coding for sickle-cell anemia. To complete the activity, students then compare the amino acid sequences of the child to that of each parent, analyzing that the child inherited recessive alleles from each parent, resulting in sickle-cell anemia. \r\nThe other activity that you generously donated was the game \"Peptide - A Protein Building Game\". My students loved playing this! I waited to use this game as a review of protein synthesis. This creative game kept my students engaged while utilizing all the new vocabulary that they learned during this unit. To goal in the game is to create a protein, made up of amino acids and peptide bonds which allowed students to review the entire process of transcription and translation.\r\nBoth of these activities enhanced my students' understanding of protein synthesis. Thanks you so much for your donation!","fullyFundedDate":1733157035895,"projectUrl":"project/learning-about-protein-synthesis-transc/8801720/","projectTitle":"Learning About Protein Synthesis -Transcription and Translation in Biology","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Reno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9762692"},{"teacherId":9729412,"projectId":8843009,"letterContent":"I am so grateful for the tools you have given me. I have complete revamped the operation of my classroom! \r\n\r\nThe iPad, Apple Pencil and Apple TV you so graciously donated have enabled me to create digital assignments that save me time, improve student engagement, and allow me to create visual aids (even with my poor art skills). \r\n\r\nThe pictures I shared show just a snippet of the work I have done to improve engagement with my students. One image shows notes I created to illustrate the characteristics of life, as well as a simplified life cycle for a moss we used to construct terrariums. The second image is a perfect example of how I use my tools to teach physics. The images are of a lesson I taught on Two Body Problems, while teaching Newton's Laws and Components of Forces. \r\n\r\nThe ability to neatly write and draw for all my students to see is something I could never give up. You have changed the way I teach, and the way my students absorb content.","fullyFundedDate":1731078241483,"projectUrl":"project/ipad-tools-for-improved-scientific-vocab/8843009/","projectTitle":"iPad Tools for Improved Scientific Vocab and Algebra Lessons","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Nitz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9729412"},{"teacherId":9753619,"projectId":8792506,"letterContent":"I would like to give a sincere thank you on behalf of my students and myself. I think I can safely say that the most enjoyable experience for students in science classrooms are the hands on-activities. The resources you supplied makes providing those projects able to occur more frequently (and with increased efficiency as well.)\r\n\r\nTo provide you with some context of what the materials are used for, here are some of the projects and experiments coming up. In my 9th grade physical science courses, we are learning about the different types of chemical reactions there are. The 9 volt batteries provided will allow students to decompose water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen gas. When that gas is collected in small test tubes, then students will be able to synthesize water by bringing a match to the test tube. (Students enjoy the small pop sound that this makes!) In 10th grade biology, we will use the sculpting clay to build models of tortoise shell cats, who experience something called x-chromosome activation, during our Non-Mendelian Genetics unit.\r\n\r\nAgain, thank you so much for allowing me to add additional STEM opportunities in my classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1732636462610,"projectUrl":"project/adding-stem-projects-to-the-classroom/8792506/","projectTitle":"Adding STEM Projects To The Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Otto","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9753619"},{"teacherId":9754077,"projectId":8829926,"letterContent":"The Apple TV and podium have already made a big impact in my classroom. With the Apple TV I am now able to move around my room while still giving my lectures. I believe that my ability to move around has kept my students more engaged as many times they are following me as I talk. I am also able to introduce more collaborative learning by having different groups show the rest of the class how to do problems without all of them having to move around.\r\n\r\nThe podium not only allows me to teach my students face-on but it gives me more room to hold supplies and materials when needed. Have the materials on the podium rather than my desk allows my workspace to be cleaner and students can come up and work at my desk if they want. \r\n\r\nYour support has definitely allow me to \"tech it up a notch\" in my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1727627944177,"projectUrl":"project/tech-it-up-a-notch/8829926/","projectTitle":"Tech It Up a Notch","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9754077"},{"teacherId":9750624,"projectId":8785521,"letterContent":"I would first like to take this opportunity to thank Donors Choose for developing a platform that provides the public a direct conduit for supporting education. As a teacher, each year it becomes more challenging to believe that education is still a valuable part of our great country and after my experience with Donors Choose, I have been reinspired that what I do matters and others believe so as well! In addition, I would like to thank those that chose my project to be worthy of your financial support, which to me, demonstrates your investment in education and your belief that what we do in schools really does make a difference.\r\n\r\nThe project that has been greatly impacted by the funds that I have received through Donors Choose is called \"Purification of a Heterogeneous Mixture.\" For this lab experiment student are given a mixture of sand, salt, iron grit and copper BB's. Their task is to purify the mixture and determine a mathematical yield for each component. With the new wand magnets provided by your donations, my students were able to carefully extract the iron grit from the sand and salt due to the magnetic nature of iron. My students were extremely engaged during this process and the education value of this experiment was greatly improved because of your generosity, so thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1726449671677,"projectUrl":"project/using-statistical-math-manipulatives-to/8785521/","projectTitle":"Using Statistical Math Manipulatives to Build Science Models","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Leinwand","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9750624"},{"teacherId":9710280,"projectId":8709214,"letterContent":"Thank you again for your support! This has been such a blessing in our classroom. Working examples together has become so much easier. I am able to stand where every student can see and I am able to move around the room when necessary. Students have enjoyed the chance to \"be the teacher\" and get excited to use the pen and iPad to show how they solved a question. As the teacher, I have benefited immensely from the project. I have been able to look my students in the eye while I'm teaching which has given me a far better indication of their understanding. I can see the looks of confusion when something isn't making sense and clear it up right away. Before I would have just moved on unless a student verbally stopped me. Our day to day operations have been far improved by your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1725121509454,"projectUrl":"project/improving-visibility-and-engagement/8709214/","projectTitle":"Improving visibility and engagement","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hickman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9710280"},{"teacherId":9758382,"projectId":8798823,"letterContent":"On behalf of Havre High School and my anatomy and physiology students, I want to extend our gratitude for your donation of sheep brains for dissection. Your support has made an incredible impact on our learning environment, and I would like to take a moment to share just how valuable these contributions have been.\r\nThe donated materials allowed my students to learn the anatomy of the brain through an engaging hands-on experience that they wouldn't have had otherwise. Students were able to use their knowledge of anatomy and the dissection manual to point out and identify all the structures of the brain that they learned from lecture. Students were able to achieve a deeper understanding of the structure of the brain that lecture and notes would not have been able to do.\r\nYour donation has improved my quality of instruction and made an impact on many of my students. I have had many students surprised how much they enjoyed the dissection activity and are now thinking of careers in the medical field after graduation.\r\nThank you again for your kindness and dedication to education.","fullyFundedDate":1727213375414,"projectUrl":"project/learning-the-structures-of-the-brain-thr/8798823/","projectTitle":"Learning the Structures of the Brain Through Dissection","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gunderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9758382"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_78487","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":515,"numTeachers":39,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":0,"percentWhite":71,"percentIndigenous":17,"percentLatinx":3,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"13.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"TOWN","ncesMetroType":"TOWN_REMOTE"},"inStateSupporters":100.0,"schoolId":78487,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Havre High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Havre High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/montana/havre-school-district-16-a/havre-high-school/78487"}