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Ms. Kelly from Yonkers, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Measuring Extends Our Observations!

My students need wind-up meter tapes to measure distances for several outside activities including modeling measuring parallax of stars

  • $263 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students want engaging, hands on learning opportunities and I want to give them as many as possible.

My students attend a high school in a high needs, urban district, with 76% of students meeting the free and reduced lunch requirements.

Our challenge is to bring them to nature or if necessary, bring nature to them.

Earth Science an elective science class. We are outside as much as possible measuring shadow lengths, distances in a solar system model, directions, angles.

My Project

Developing models is one of the goals of the Next Gen Science Standards. Students need to be outside, observing, modeling, measuring the world and its phenomena. This will allow students to study systems that can be scaled down to see patterns and cause and effect relationships. Outside activities give students the opportunity to analyze and interpret data and explore their findings.

They need good tools and these wind-up meter tapes will allow them to model the distances and position of our world and beyond.

Modeling the world can shift the overwhelming to simple and increase students' relationship to the world

Ms. Kelly Lincoln High School Grades 9-12

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Yonkers, NY View local requests

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

90 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Meter Tape, Windup, 10 Meters • Carolina Biological Supply Company $17.32 10 $173.20

Materials cost

$173.20

Vendor shipping charges

$17.32

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$223.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.37

Total project goal

$262.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$262.49

2 Donors

-$131.23

Donations toward project cost

-$111.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.68

match offer

-$131.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$111.57

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.69

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$0.00

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