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Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab from San Diego, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Measure Up

Help me give my students a class set of long metric measuring tapes and batteries for our timers.

  • $188 goal

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Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab has another project! Donate to iPad for Digital Drawing to help her classroom.

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Help Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab has another project! Donate to iPad for Digital Drawing to help her classroom.

$955 - complete this project and be a hero

My Project

While doing an experiment in testing the rolling of balls, students had a lot of difficulty with our current classroom measuring tapes. First, I would like them to use the metric system, and not the imperial system, since metric is the more scientific option. Since inches were the larger measurement, that is what they were gravitating to. Second, our tests was going farther than our current measuring tapes, so students were having to constantly move the tape and then add the two together. While this is great practice in math, it was adding additional time to the process and taking away from the focus of our investigation.

Help us measure more efficiently and accurately with longer distance, retractable measuring tools.

In addition, we also discovered that all of our timer batteries were dead, so need to replace them as well.

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab Vista Grande Elementary School Grades 3-5

More about Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab

San Diego, CA 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

400 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Durable Wind Up Meter Tape - 30 m • School Specialty $12.74 8 $101.92
SKOANBE 20Pack LR1130 389 AG10 Button Cell Batteries 1.5V Battery Replacement • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$107.91

Vendor shipping charges

$10.19

Sales tax

$9.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$159.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.16

Total project goal

$187.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$187.75

1 Donor

-$159.59

Donations toward project cost

-$159.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.16

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$0.00

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