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Looking for a worthy cause to bestow some extra cash upon? Here’s one suggestion: Over 150 D.C. teachers are looking for donations online to fund some basic, and some not-so-basic, classroom needs.

On the site Donors Choose, 151 D.C. teachers are currently requesting donations for everything from stethoscopes to books to a Wolf Trap “teaching artist.” The majority of the current requests are made in the Math and Science category.

One seventh grade teacher from the Friendship Blow Pierce Junior Academy is looking to buy notebooks, pencils and posters for her students.

Back-to-school shopping was an experience I always took for granted until I began teaching. The majority of my students live in poverty and have not yet experienced the beginning of a school year with the necessary materials in hand. This year will be different!

When I need inspiration, I don’t pop in a movie or push play on a song – I look at the students I am fortunate enough to be able to teach.

Another teacher at Washington Latin Public Charter School wants to buy a digital velocity speed gun, so his students can study the motion of objects.

My students come from all over the District of Columbia but the majority come from single parent homes. We are a charter school where 35% of our students receive free or reduced lunches. Their exposure to high tech devices is limited to cell phones. By purchasing this equipment, we will be able to expand our lessons on projectiles, objects rolling down ramps, velocity of students running etc. We will then complete graphs using the data collected and compare it to data obtained using hand held stop watches.

D.C. Public School students returned to class on August 26.

Here’s how the projects are verified, according to Donors Choose:

We vet every classroom project request, purchase the materials and ship them directly to the school, provide photos of the project taking place, and supply a cost report showing how every dollar was spent.