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Mrs. Schulzke from Riverton, UT is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Spectacular Star Spectra

Help me give my students an authentic experience using a spectrometer to analyze gasses that we find in stars.

  • $514 goal

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My Students

This year's ninth-graders are full of energy and love doing hands-on activities and labs. In addition to our regular education students, we have many students who need accommodations. This includes Special Education students, English Language Learners, inclusion students, and students on IEP's or 504 plans. Many of these students benefit from kinesthetic activities that make scientific phenomena more real to them.

My goal is to give students the best learning opportunities I can through a variety of instructional methods.

I plan many labs but also do other activities to help my students succeed. With the implementation of science and engineering practices in the Earth and Space Science core standards, having authentic learning experiences is more important than ever. Many of these experiences include the use of technology, which I try to incorporate into the classroom whenever possible.

My Project

The spectroscopy lab I currently use needs to be amped up. For this lab, we use diffraction grating lenses and a variety of gasses. I tell them the gas we are looking at and they draw the spectra. While this is fun, having this added piece of technology will allow me to show the students the wavelengths of light along with the colors. The video spectrometer projects the spectrum they also see with their glasses but includes the wavelengths. In addition, instead of telling them the gas that I am showing them, we will be able to use this technology to figure out what the gas is by seeing if the "fingerprint" of the expected spectra matches the spectra we see. The video spectrometer has the capability to overlay the different element signatures over the spectrum we are looking at. We would also be able to explore colors as an extension activity. This would be a much more authentic experience and better complement the science and engineering practices they are learning.

Mrs. Schulzke
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RSpec Explorer, Video Spectrometer • Carolina Biological Supply Company $400.50 1 $400.50

Materials cost

$400.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$436.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.03

Total project goal

$513.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $513.54

8 Donors

-$501.04

Donations toward project cost

-$425.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.15

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

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 $0.00

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