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Mrs. Vibbert from Los Angeles, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Cut Above

My students need dissection materials like trays, scalpels, gloves, and pins as well as dissection specimens like eyes, sheeps'; brains, and squid.

  • $591 goal

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My Students

What are your best memories of science class. Mine involve labs and experiments and especially dissections.

My students are all in middle school and have been identified as having mild to moderate learning disabilities.

As such, they have a lot of difficulty learning from traditional lecture and text based lessons. Like many students, they thrive when they have to opportunity to get their hands-on a project and learn in an experiential way.

My Project

Having dissection equipment like trays, scalpels, aprons and gloves, as well as specimens like cow eyes, preserved squid, and sheep's brains will bring to life our study of study of biology and life science. Students will be able to explore different phyla and organ systems in a way that even the best books and computer simulations cannot provide. Even more importantly, the students will be able to feel like real scientists and hopefully will gain a better understanding of the lab and the scientific method of inquiry.

My students do not have many learning experiences outside of class and so what we do for them in class is of tremendous importance.

Please help me give them the kind of class that they will remember forever.

Mrs. Vibbert
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Squid (Loligo) Size: 8"-12"; Injection: Plain • Nasco $4.25 16 $68.00
An Illustrated Dissection Guide to the Squid • Nasco $8.25 1 $8.25
Student Dissection Guide Eye • Nasco $7.95 1 $7.95
Cow Organ Eye • Nasco $1.50 10 $15.00
Sheep Organ Brain; with Cranial Nerve Roots • Nasco $7.25 10 $72.50
Student Dissection Brain • Nasco $8.90 1 $8.90
Econopan • Nasco $1.28 12 $15.36
Econo Disecto Flex-Pad (fits 10" x 7" Econopan) • Nasco $3.95 12 $47.40
Small Econo-Blue Nitrile Glove • Nasco $8.95 3 $26.85
Medium Econo-Blue Nitrile Glove • Nasco $8.95 2 $17.90
4-1/2" Chrome, Straight, Fine Point Dissecting Scissors • Nasco $0.92 12 $11.04
Safety-Lok Scalpel (Student Grade) • Nasco $1.11 12 $13.32
T-Pins • Nasco $8.10 1 $8.10
Instrument Sorting Tray • Nasco $7.85 1 $7.85
Dissecting Forceps (Medium Points) Curved, Chrome Plate • Nasco $0.80 12 $9.60
2" Bent Steel Needle • Nasco $0.44 12 $5.28
Large Econo-Blue Nitrile Glove • Nasco $8.95 1 $8.95
All-Purpose Disposable Aprons 28" x 45", Box of 100 • Nasco $34.95 1 $34.95

Materials cost

$387.20

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.72

Sales tax

 $35.43

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$502.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.62

Total project goal

$590.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $590.78

8 Donors

-$295.39

Donations toward project cost

-$251.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.31

match offer

-$295.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$251.08

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.31

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