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Ms. Birchard from New York, NY is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fitness for a Healthy Lifestyle

Help me give my students fitness trackers to keep track of their daily activities in order to improve their health.

  • $946 goal

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My Students

The students of our school are a cohort of diverse, intelligent, and hardworking students from around the New York City Metropolitan area. Our school is a selective, public, college preparatory school with a focus on science, math, technology, and engineering that provides a challenging academic experience. It prepares students for careers in science, math, and engineering. They are curious, friendly, and resilient learners who teach me something new every day.

My classroom is not only a place of challenge and discovery, but also a place where students come to

de-stress and learn everyday​ life skills.

Inside and out of the classroom, they are inquisitive learners, never afraid to ask how our world works. They are also from very diverse backgrounds and come to school with various experiences that further deepen our classroom learning.

My Project

This project will aim at helping students lead more healthy lives. With these fitness trackers we are going to do in depth study into heart rate response during rest and exercise as well as appropriate amounts of sleep and recovery. This long term student activity will help initiate change for better lifestyles for years to come. In addition, students will learn about long term data collection like real life scientists and researchers. This will employ and practice the scientific process.

This research project is also a great way to introduce the female population to both science, technology, and athletics in one educational process.

Typically these individuals are absent from these fields and with this long term study we hope to increase the amount of female participation and affect long term outcomes that these females will go into these professional areas.

Ms. Birchard Columbia Secondary School Grades 9-12

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Half 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

100 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lintelek Fitness Tracker, Activity Tracker with Heart Rate Monitor, Smart Fitness Watch with Sleep Monitor, Step Counter, Calorie Counter, Pedometer Watch for Women Men and Gift (Green) • Amazon Business $25.42 30 $762.60

Materials cost

$762.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$804.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.89

Total project goal

$945.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $945.93

9 Donors

-$464.14

Donations toward project cost

-$409.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.62

match offer

-$464.14

Match offer toward project cost

-$394.52

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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