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Dr. Moll from New York, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Understanding Evolution Through Skulls

Help me give my students replica hominid skulls in order to study the evolutionary relationships of humans and their near relatives.

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My Students

I teach in a Title I School in East Harlem. Students come from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds but are extremely motivated to learn. Students spend many hours after school studying. My school is lucky enough to afford most of the students an opportunity to take AP classes. We also have a large percentage of the student body who are students with disabilities (20% or so) and have developed a great program for them through the school. These are disadvantaged but very deserving kids.

My Project

These materials will help students learn about evolution using inquiry. I had tried to fund a similar donor's choose project in the past with full-size skulls and unfortunately was not able to. I will still be able to do the activity with these half-size skulls, and we can say, perhaps that they are skulls from fossils of adolescents.

These lab-grade hominid skulls will allow students to take physical measurements with a goal of better understanding human evolution.

This will give the students a hands-on experience that will help them identify changes that have happened over time in their own species. I have done this lab before with a small group of students at the American Museum of Natural History and after seeing student excitement around it, I would really love to bring it to the whole school.

Dr. Moll Central Park East High School Grades 9-12

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More than three‑quarters 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

85 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
SKULL REPLICA HOMINID GREAT APE SET 7 • Ward's Science $764.15 1 $764.15

Materials cost

$764.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$805.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$142.17

Total project goal

$947.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $947.78

8 Donors

-$691.61

Donations toward project cost

-$627.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.50

match offer

-$210.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$178.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$46.17

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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