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Ms. L from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Power of Sight: Binoculars For Bird Watching

Help me give my students binoculars to use for our study of Jordan River birds.

  • 1 donor
  • $261 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Project

There is no better classroom than the world around us. Place-based education is a method of teaching that connects experiences in the local community to developing knowledge in content areas. I got to see the power of this type of learning last year when we began a study of the birds living in our neighborhood riparian environment, Salt Lake's Jordan River corridor. Every month, students collected data about birds they observed at our site and then studied how birds' structures helped them survive in this environment. They loved walking down to the river and pointing out all the birds they were seeing, but had trouble distinguishing one bird from another.

This is where you come in: giving our students access to a pair of binoculars will allow them to collect more accurate data.

Access to better tools will lead to a better understanding of the living and nonliving interactions we are observing. In addition, the class set of binoculars will live in our outdoor education supplies which can be accessed by all the teachers at our school. Therefore, this project will not only reach the 4th graders in our school, but the entire student body.

Ms. L
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
ESSENSON Binoculars for Kids Toys Gifts for Age 3-12 Years Old Boys Girls Kids Telescope Outdoor Toys for Sports and Outside Play Hiking, Bird Watching, Travel, Camping, Birthday Presents (Black) • Amazon Business $6.29 30 $188.70

Materials cost

$188.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$221.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.09

Total project goal

$260.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $260.62

1 Donor

-$221.53

Donations toward project cost

-$221.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.09

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 $0.00

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