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Mr. Hitchcock from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Make Field Studies More Sustainable

My students need a dissolved oxygen meter to help make our water quality studies more environmentally and economically sustainable.

  • $450 goal

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My Students

I teach science to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in a Title I Public School in Brooklyn, New York. We are presently engaged in a variety of student-guided open-inquiry projects based upon field studies performed outside of the school building in various parks and similar locations both around their neighborhood and throughout the city. Seeing and interacting in these "other worlds" and has had a huge impact on how my students think about themselves, life, and the future of their planet.

My Project

My scholars and I participate in a lot of data gathering field studies in the neighborhood parks around our school. Our biggest involves a study with oysters in Coney Island Creek.

We use a lot of test kits to take measurements of environemntal factors such as nitrates, ammonia levels, pH, and dissolved oxygen.

Dissolved oxygen test kits are particularly expensive and they leave behind waste (both chemical reagents and the glass ampoules they are stored in).

In order to make our studies both more economically and environmentally sustainable, we are seeking to purchase a portable digital dissolved oxygen meter so we no longer need to purchase dissolved oxygen kit.

Mr. Hitchcock PS 288 Shirley Tanyhill Grades 6-8

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
PORTABLE METERS ST300D-B • Frey Scientific $310.49 1 $310.49

Materials cost

$310.49

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.26

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$382.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.48

Total project goal

$449.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $449.89

2 Donors

-$224.06

Donations toward project cost

-$191.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.11

match offer

-$224.07

Match offer toward project cost

-$190.46

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.61

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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 $0.00

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