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Mrs. Black from Santa Fe, NM is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Black's classroom raised $506

Silent Spring

My students need 39 copies of the Book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

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Mrs. Black Capital High School
Santa Fe, NM Grades 9-12

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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

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” Wendell Berry has inspired my students, and with your help they will learn how to renew and cherish our Earth.

I am teaching Environmental Science to 11th and 12th grade students in a high needs urban high school in New Mexico.

Currently, only a few of my students finish high school and go onto college or are able to enter into a high paying profession. One reason for the low success rate is that students don't find their classes engaging or relevant to their lives. To address our low success rate, my school is planning to form career pathways to inspire students to find a profession that interests them, and supply them the knowledge and tools to be successful in their future endeavors. My hope is to inspire my students about possible a career pathway of environmental science and green technologies. I would like to take this course and make it an exciting subject that my students will not only enjoy but will incorporate some of the basic principles into their daily lives.

My Project

I hope to inspire my students with the story of a committed individual who fought against environmental injustice and spurred the environmental movement. We will examine how Rachel Carson handled the challenges, controversies, and obstacles of became an environmental activist. My environmental science class will read her book, conduct group discussions, and analyze the topics presented in the book through book reviews and class presentations. By reading this book I hope my students can see how all living things are connected in a complex web of life, and how pesticides and pollution can have devastating effects on the environment. We will explore alternative energies, water and land usage and wildlife conservation. Your donation will help my students apply these lessons to their daily lives and shed light on local environmental issues.

New Mexico is rich in renewable resources and my hope is to create this rigorous course to inspire students to utilize their local environment in healthy and sustainable ways.

By the end of the course I hope to transform my students into global environmental stewards.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

40 students impacted 16 donors
Mrs. Black Capital High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Santa Fe, NM View local requests

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

40 students impacted 16donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Silent Spring Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson (Afterword), Edward Osborne Wilson (Afterword), Linda Lear (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $10.22 39 $398.58

Materials cost

$398.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$439.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.68

Total project goal

$505.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $505.24

15 Donors

-$504.24

Donations toward project cost

-$439.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.00

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 $0.00

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