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Mrs. Fortney from Savannah, GA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Human Impact on the Environment

Help me give my students real-life laboratory experiments to help them learn human impact on the environment to include algae blooms and fish kills.

  • $224 goal

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My Project

Going into my second year of teaching environmental science it is obvious that I need more hands-on laboratory experiments to help students connect with human impact on the environment. Environmental science is a freshman course and it is important that the students I teach gain hands on experiences in the science classroom.

With your donation you will help supply my environmental science classroom with two laboratory experiences.

The first laboratory experience students will explore the phenomenon of a fish kill that occurred in Lake Erie and how changes in lake ecosystem caused changes in matter cycling and energy transfer that lead to the fish kill.

In the second laboratory experience students will investigate the growth of algae populations in different concentrations of nutrient solutions. Students will learn about algae blooms and carrying capacity of algal populations.

Mrs. Fortney
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carrying Capacity and Algal Blooms Kit with Carolina Spectroscopy Chambers (with voucher) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $75.42 1 $75.42
Matter Cycling and Energy Transfer in Lake Ecosystems Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $61.92 1 $61.92

Materials cost

$137.34

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.50

Sales tax

 $9.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$190.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.60

Total project goal

$223.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $223.98

1 Donor

-$190.38

Donations toward project cost

-$190.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.60

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 $0.00

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