Hands-on supplies help kids learn. Here is research you can bring to your principal or district, and places to find the supplies themselves.
Asking your school or district to fund supplies? These are the numbers.
About $400 in teacher-requested supplies leads to 2 to 9 more students scoring basic or above, and a 14% reduction in teacher turnover. We studied teacher projects funded on DonorsChoose in Pennsylvania public schools.
Test scores (Management Science, 2022) · Teacher turnover (M&SOM, 2025)
Science in every elementary grade takes physical stuff, like seeds, soil, bulbs, and wires. If that's left up to the teacher, it's a ton of work.
Betsy Davis, who chaired the National Academies committee on elementary science, on what it takes to provide a material science education.
The teacher-time cost when science supplies are not provided.
Post a classroom project and let donors fund it. The platform buys and ships the supplies to you.
Donors give to a teacher’s or school’s page, and teachers spend the funds on supplies from partner vendors.
Free school supplies for teachers and students in high-poverty schools.
Hands-on classroom materials, manipulatives, and furniture, mostly for early childhood and elementary.
Books and classroom libraries, including book clubs where classroom orders earn free books for the teacher.