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Mr. Burden from Columbia SC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Worm Stew

My students need 10 large plastic containers with lids and 2 large paper shredders.

  • $480 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My students and I want to be good stewards of our environment, so we are busy developing an outdoor learning garden on the campus of our school. Our garden will incorporate many of our seventh grade ecology standards and will be self-sustaining for many years to come. The project promises to be a valuable learning tool. Since the students want the garden to sustain itself, we need a way to manufacture soil additives or fertilizer. We have been doing this with the help of our "worm farm."

The worms in our room eat our newspapers and left-over fruits and vegetables from our lunches. Once they fully digest the materials, the worms excrete excellent fertilizer in the form of worm castings. But now we want to expand our "worm farm." We need more shelters for our worms because they continue to grow and multiply. We also need paper shredders so that we can shred paper more efficiently for the worms.

If the students obtain the paper shredders and the plastic bins due to your financial help, we can expand our environmental efforts to reach more classrooms. Our hope is that the entire seventh grade can help us with this process. We plan to place the worm shelters in several classrooms throughout the school. By doing this, more students can see the worms and the good deed that they complete for the earth. The work that worms accomplish happens naturally in forests and underground. Worms are around in soil to eat dead and decaying vegetation. We just want to speed the process up so that people can learn from it, and our garden can benefit from it. We can accomplish this by utilizing more bins in more spaces.

Your help will ensure that our worm program can be fully implemented into the entire seventh grade. Every student will be able to view the fertilizer manufacturing process form beginning to end. Every student can see newspaper, banana peels, and apple cores turned into useful worm waste products. Then the students can help distribute the worm castings onto the soil outside in our garden. The process will create an environmental and educational cycle that can continue for years to come.

Mr. Burden
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Iris 44-Quart Plastic Storage Box, Clear With Transparent Blueberry Lid • Office Depot Inc. $12.04 10 $120.40
Fellowes(R) HD-10Cs Cross-Cut Shredder • Office Depot Inc. $99.99 2 $199.98

Materials cost

$320.38

Vendor shipping charges

 $32.04

Sales tax

 $16.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$393.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.27

Total project goal

$479.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $479.27

11 Donors

-$462.35

Donations toward project cost

-$393.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$69.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.92

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 $0.00

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