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Mrs. Borders from Lakebay, WA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Environmental Science: Hands-on Student Investigations

My students need cotton balls, plastic wrap, vinegar, modeling clay, salt, craft sticks, pH paper, and a pollution lab kit in order to study environmental science.

  • $1,091 goal

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My Students

Middle School students are fascinated by their environment! They want to know how it works, what impacts it, and what they can do to help their environment. There are many factors, such as acid rain, that can be modeled in the classroom.

My students are bright, curious, and filled with leadership.

We are a middle school in Washington State. As a NASA Explorer School, we not only study our universe, but also study our home planet. By gaining an understanding of our home planet, we are better equipped to preserve our planet and also to extend our knowledge to planets around us.

My Project

Students will construct a cloud in a bottle by using saran wrap, a bowl, gravel, water, and a rock. They will design and carry out acid rain investigations using vinegar, thermometers, and pH paper. Their excitement will soar as they also design and construct buildings equipped to withstand nature's forces! The pollution lab kit will enable us to carry out whole class investigations with respect to the effect of pollution on our water supply, buildings, and more.

You can help to equip the next generation of explorers with the tools and knowledge that they will need to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Your support will enable our class to carry our many environmental investigations and will also facilitate discussion of positive change.

Mrs. Borders Key Peninsula Middle School Grades 6-8

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Lakebay, WA View local requests

More than a third 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

150 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
SS BOWL 4 QT 18-8 SS ATLANTA F • Lab Safety Supply $11.00 1 $11.00
SALT & PEPPER SHAKER SET -- Office Snax Salt and Pepper Shaker Set • Quill $5.39 10 $53.90
Plastic Wrap - 100Ft Roll • Sargent-Welch $5.40 5 $27.00
Cotton Balls Pack300 • Sargent-Welch $4.48 4 $17.92
Clay 4 Colors Modeling 4/Set • Sargent-Welch $8.98 10 $89.80
CRAFT STICKS, 150 PIECES, BRIGHT HUES -- Chenille Kraft Wooden Craft Materials; Sticks, Bright Hues • Quill $1.61 10 $16.10
Vinegar White (500mL) 1Part • Sargent-Welch $4.10 10 $41.00
Tape Measure Metric - 50M • Sargent-Welch $47.93 1 $47.93
Kit - Environmental Pollution • Sargent-Welch $305.10 1 $305.10
Kit - Paper pH Rain Survey • Sargent-Welch $45.90 1 $45.90
PH PPR LITMUS B WHATMAN 1 PKG • Lab Safety Supply $19.10 5 $95.50
Thermometer Digital - Centrigrade • Sargent-Welch $15.75 3 $47.25

Materials cost

$798.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.35

Sales tax

 $69.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$926.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$163.52

Total project goal

$1,090.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,090.11

1 Donor

-$545.05

Donations toward project cost

-$463.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.76

match offer

-$545.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$463.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.76

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