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Mr. Scott from Los Angeles, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I Found My Pulse!

My students need five heart rate monitors to help them learn to take their own and other students resting pulse in my 7th grade Teen Health class.

  • $563 goal

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My Students

People become easily frustrated when asked to learn information and skills they do not posses and the only way to posses them is to try, fail, and try again! I teach my Teen Health students how to take their own and other students' pulse. Finding the pulse and counting it is challenging for them.

My students are young adults, their bodies are outwardly changing and their minds are in a state of change no human being known to me has adequately described.

Our school is an urban middle school with 1800 students of diverse backgrounds. Some have traveled the world and others have never been in an airplane. I find most are eager to learn about their bodies and the health issues that correspond to their development. They especially benefit from lessons that enable them to move, use a number of their senses, socialize/work with their peers.

My Project

The best way I can explain this is to describe the lab. Thirty-three students and I go outside to the open grass yard of our school. I put them in groups of two or three and demonstrate how to take a wrist pulse and a neck pulse. I circulate among the students helping those having difficulty. Usually there are too many who can't find a pulse. People get off task and I run out of class time. The heart rate monitors will enable all student groups to learn how to take a pulse. Those in the group having difficulty can use the monitor. They can check their count against the monitors and if they can't find a pulse the old fashion way, they can still participate in the lab by using the monitor. Being successful in science and health class helps these young people take a more active role in developing a healthy body, healthy habits, and a critical mind.

The heart rate monitors are a one time expense that the students will use during the year and for years to come.

It gives them a means to succeed at the skill of taking their pulse. I observe my students have a low tolerance for frustration. They need small successes to keep them on the learning track. I can't predict where the point is in their life in which they accept learning means overcoming challenges but the monitors will move them closer by being successful in the pulse taking lab.

Mr. Scott
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Polar Electro Blue FS1 Heart Rate Monitor • Cannon Sports, Inc. $73.45 5 $367.25

Materials cost

$367.25

Vendor shipping charges

 $36.72

Sales tax

 $33.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$478.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.37

Total project goal

$562.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $562.45

7 Donors

-$498.83

Donations toward project cost

-$477.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$62.44

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $1.18

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