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Mr. III from New Haven, CT is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. III's classroom raised $1,024

Sowing The Seeds Of Science

My students need tools for gardening including shovels, trowels, rakes, and hoes please.

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Mr. III Ross Woodward Magnet School
New Haven, CT Grades 6-8

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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 Students

I am an urban school life science teacher, desperate to share my knowledge and passion for agriculture with my students, who are so distantly removed from the sources of healthy, fresh food.

At the beginning of every school year, I am disappointed to find out that more and more of our students are completely unaware of where food comes from.

Students are unaware that tomatoes grow on bushes, potatoes grow in the ground, and peas grow on vines. What scares me even more is that our students are unaware that their favorite French Fries are made from the same potatoes that grow in the ground, pickles are from cucumbers, and that pasta sauce is made from a combination of tomatoes and aromatic herbs.

My Project

As an urban educator in an under-funded, and under-appreciated school system, I am hoping to get students back to their grassroots and teach them the roots of our culture. Lessons from the garden not only include agricultural science and food production, but also include social studies lessons about how humans became more civilized and settled by making tools, planting, and harvesting food from the land. I have several extremely difficult special needs students in each class. I have had, however, miracles happen (with theses students) in my classes because of hands-on activities that exposes students to the natural world. I have never had the "why do we need to know this" questions from students. Instead, students ask questions, explore on their own and develop their own curriculum that they enthusiastically want to learn. Teaching science is real when the students get dirty and I want my students to dig deep and make a school garden to feed themselves and their friends.

Our students are in desperate times to learn how to make simple, cheap, good, fresh food.

A community garden is an excellent learning resource for students, as well as a successful outreach program that provides growth and development opportunities for challenging students. I have seen the immediate benefits of having students take pride in their work in a garden. School gardens work where therapy and counseling do not. Please, help me reach students by sowing the seeds of hope.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

300 students impacted 18 donors
Mr. III Ross Woodward Magnet School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

New Haven, CT View local requests

Nearly all 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

300 students impacted 18donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Gardening Tool Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $157.70 4 $630.80
Hand Tool Set for Horticulture • Carolina Biological Supply Company $37.95 3 $113.85

Materials cost

$744.65

Vendor shipping charges

 $74.47

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$839.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.23

Total project goal

$1,023.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,023.51

14 Donors

-$1,012.54

Donations toward project cost

-$839.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$173.26

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.97

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 $0.00

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