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Ms. Levites from Chicago, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Clean It Up!

My students need test strips as well as chemical composition and water bacteria kits to test our polluted water and soil.

  • $418 goal

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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

Chicago DOESN'T disinfect waste-water from its three massive treatment plants — an important germ-killing step that EVERY OTHER major U.S. city is required to take. My Chicago high school students deserve to know what is in their waterways and have the opportunity to take action on it!

I teach at a high poverty school in Chicago.

My students vary both in personality and ability levels. I teach English Language Learners, and many whom are labeled, "special needs." My seniors are brilliant and inspiring, they continue to teach me new things everyday. They persevere through obstacles that are thrown at them. Some work 30 hours/week; others have children of their own. Yet, they come to school, dedicated to walk across the stage in June, holding that much anticipated diploma.

My Project

Think about the first time you learned of an issue you care passionately about. Perhaps it was climate change, the achievement gap, poverty, or war. These resources will allow my students to become captivated and inspired by the current situation of water pollution in Chicago. They will bring a real-world issue into the classroom, and allow them to discover a passion for solving the issues of waste-water in Chicago rivers. Not only will they learn about what should and should not be in our rivers, lakes and ponds, but they will be able to test for it and analyze the political and social motivations that keep our waterways polluted. Our project will include research on the history and current issues in Chicago, and require students to discover methods for cleaning up Chicago rivers. They will be required to present those findings to our local officials, moving from scientific investigation to civic engagement.

My 5th grade teacher once told me that you only get a few opportunities to become environmentally passionate.

I am not simply requesting resources for a unit on water and soil, I am requesting an opportunity to inspire my students. An opportunity to allow them to fulfill their potential of being stewards for the environment.

Ms. Levites
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Water Bacterial Pollution Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $47.97 3 $143.91
Nitrate and Nitrite Nitrogen Water Test Strips (vial/50) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $15.72 1 $15.72
Kit - Chem Composition Of Soil • Sargent-Welch $139.50 1 $139.50

Materials cost

$299.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.96

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$354.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.57

Total project goal

$417.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $417.15

9 Donors

-$416.62

Donations toward project cost

-$354.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.04

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.53

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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