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Mr. Sternberg from Canoga Park, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diving Into Marine Literacy and Diversity

My students need models, microscope slides, and preserved animals for observation and exploration, along with understanding compost through interactive displays and practice.

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My Students

Imagine growing up less than fifteen miles from one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, and never having experienced the wonder and majesty of the Pacific Ocean. I love to vividly describe the sensation of free diving in the tropics, snorkeling in murky mangroves, and almost getting lost underwater caves, but unfortunately the reality of my students is that they cannot imagine themselves experiencing this wonder.

The reality at my school is that the majority of students, despite having grown up so geographically close to the ocean, have never actually been to the beach.

These are creative, curious, and clever students who have been disenfranchised by the cycle of poverty, where almost 80% of the student body is on state-sponsored free lunch program. It is my goal to enrich my students lives by placing them in the ecosphere of our world, and allowing them to participate and feel in one of the most beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems in the world: our oceans. I want my students to spread environmental literacy through a community that needs concrete leadership to enact environmental change.

My Project

I am a first year teacher trying to engage my students in an alien world at least to them. Without the direct engagement of hands-on experiences afforded by microscope visuals, preserved specimens, and anatomical models, the experience of engaging with our marine world falls flat. This project is designed to give my classroom much needed resources that can capture my students attention to an aspect of biology, ecology, and physiology that they are completely unfamiliar with.

Providing hands-on marine biological experiences to my students will engage them on a fundamentally deeper level, and allow them to feel a connection to our ecologically-linked marine and terrestrial systems.

My goal is to provide my students with the resources to ask interesting and curious questions about the world around them, and to become more familiar with the tremendous diversity of our marine ecosystems. By enabling students to explore the wonder of our oceans, it is my goal to establish environmental literacy in an underrepresented community that might not understand how linked our actions are to the health of our oceans.

In addition, I want to develop a sense of campus connectivity by challenging my students to take part in the waste-management aspect of environmental literacy by establishing a classroom compost system that feeds into our environmental science magnet. Part of this project purchases a classroom supply to witness the effects of composting, and a classroom bin to start our own composting system. Without exposure to the cycle of our waste, our students will never understand their actions impact our community. Hopefully, this experience will allow my students to have the courage to leave our planet a better place than when they started.

Mr. Sternberg Canoga Park High School Grades 9-12

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 directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Canoga Park, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

110 students impacted 15donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Marine Animal Kingdom Set, Plastomount • Carolina Biological Supply Company $108.00 1 $108.00
Beginners Invertebrate Zoology Microscope Slide Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $87.30 1 $87.30
SEA ANEMONE 2''+ PK/10 • Frey Scientific $40.22 1 $40.22
CONTAINER COMPOST 3 COMPARTMENT CLEAR • Frey Scientific $36.71 1 $36.71
JELLYFISH STOMOLOPHUS PK/10 • Frey Scientific $31.13 1 $31.13
Exaco ECO-2000 2.4 Gallon Kitchen Compost Waste Collector • Amazon Business $19.50 1 $19.50
Walter Products B17117 Prepared Slide Set-Water Life (Pack of 12) • Amazon Business $17.12 1 $17.12
10 Piece Stainless Steel Training Suture Tool Kit / Set With Scalpel Handle and 5 #10 Blades, For Medical, Veterinarian, Biology and Dissection Lab Students • Amazon Business $13.97 1 $13.97
OCTOPUS PLAIN 6''- 8'' WET EA • Frey Scientific $13.67 1 $13.67
CRAYFISH-PLAIN-LG 4-6''-10/PAIL PK • Frey Scientific $12.86 1 $12.86
Heathrow Scientific HD15994G Black Cork Lined 100 Place Microscope Slide Box, 8.25" Length x 7" Width x 1.3" Height • Amazon Business $12.31 1 $12.31
SEA URCHIN 2''- 3'' PK/10 • Frey Scientific $11.69 1 $11.69
Obelia Slide, w.m. • Carolina Biological Supply Company $10.80 1 $10.80
Hydra Slide, w.m. • Carolina Biological Supply Company $4.81 2 $9.62
EARTHWORM PLAIN 8-10'' PK/10 • Frey Scientific $9.17 1 $9.17
CB 7101S1 72-Pieces Blank Microscope Slides & 100-Pieces Square Cover Glass • Amazon Business $8.55 1 $8.55
Hydra Nemotocysts, H&E sec. Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.20 1 $7.20
Hydra Plain and Budding, w.m. Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $6.84 1 $6.84
Daphnia, w.m. Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $6.57 1 $6.57
Unni ASTM6400 Certified 100% Compostable Bags, 2.6 Gallon, 100 count, Extra Thick 0.71 Mils, Small Kitchen Trash Bag,Biodegradable Food Scraps Yard Waste Bag, US BPI and European VINCOTTE Certificated • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Daphnia and Cyclops, w.m. Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $6.07 1 $6.07
Metridium, c.s. and l.s. 7 m H&E Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $5.94 1 $5.94
Earthworm, c.s.10 m, H&E Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $5.85 1 $5.85
Zoea of Crab, w.m. Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $5.62 1 $5.62
Mussel, Soft Parts, cross section, Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $4.95 1 $4.95
Mussel Gills, cross section, Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $4.86 1 $4.86
Fish Gill, section Microscope Slide • Carolina Biological Supply Company $4.77 1 $4.77

Materials cost

$507.68

Vendor shipping charges

 $46.09

Sales tax

 $46.45

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$637.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.56

Total project goal

$750.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $750.40

11 Donors

-$694.22

Donations toward project cost

-$595.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$98.88

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

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