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Mrs. Rich from Anniston, AL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Not Your Harry Potter Wizards!

My students need a weather station, water cycle model, magnets, rock and fossil samples, to help us excel in Science. Our school has very old or no science materials.

  • $465 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students see me as a very serious teacher,so when I showed up wearing a wild, spiky, white wig, and a lab coat to our family science night, they all came to check me out and to watch my disappearing foam peanuts. We have had very little science materials to work with, and they were excited.

My students attend a Title I school and come from a low socio-economic background.

They have had very few experiences when they begin school and we spend a lot of time building background in every subject. It's difficult to describe a baseball diamond if a child has never attended a baseball game. Imagine trying to describe a concept such as matter and having to explain what a gas is. Having concrete items in science makes it easier to explain the experiments when the students have something to actually hold in their hands.

My Project

My students will learn how to use simple weather instruments and learn how weather affects us in our daily lives. They learn how we can predict the weather to protect our lives and farmers can use it to protect their crops and livestock. Students will learn that magnets are used in TVs, computers, Cd's, elevators, credit cards, and numerous other inventions that we live with daily, besides just the fun of seeing what it will and won't pick up. Learning about the water cycle from a hands on experience is so much more interesting than just reading about it in your science book. Students also retain more of the information they learn from hands on experiences that from simply reading about it.

Some of my students have never been to a movie theater to see a movie.

Imagine trying to teach these children about elevators, escalators, roller coasters, a cattle farm, and so many other things that we take for granted. Having these items in my classroom will allow my students to see things they have never seen before and make it easier to explain to them. Hopefully it will give them a curiosity about the world that will make them want to get out and explore it.

Mrs. Rich
Grades PreK-2
  • Constantine Elementary School
  • Anniston, AL
    • 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

    Equity Focus

    At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

    This project will reach 20 students.

    15 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
STATION WEATHER • ABC School Supply, Inc $132.05 1 $132.05
8882 WATER CYCLE MODEL W/CARDS EA • ABC School Supply, Inc $100.23 1 $100.23
MAGNET LEVITATION SCIENCE KIT • ABC School Supply, Inc $28.45 1 $28.45
Rocks and Fossils • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.62 1 $26.62
Jump into Science • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.86 1 $12.86

Materials cost

$300.21

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.81

Sales tax

 $24.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$394.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.70

Total project goal

$464.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $464.69

10 Donors

-$464.52

Donations toward project cost

-$394.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.17

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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