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Ms. L.'s Classroom
High Poverty 
New York (City)
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The Future is Powered by Solar Energy….My students need solar energy kit to reinforce our alternative energy unit concepts....more
My students need 4 solar racers, a solar energy demonstration kit, and solar powered dragonfly kit.
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Mrs. M.'s Classroom
High Poverty
North Carolina
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Composting - Teaching SustainabilityThe students learn about the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) at school during Earth Week, but forget them during the rest of the year. It's time we teach our students to be responsible citizens year-r...more
My students need 1 worm composting kit and 1 schoolyard composter.
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a teacher in another impoverished district from Palmyra, NJ
"I gave to this project because I have a worm composter at my school, and the kids love it and learn so much ffrom it. G..."
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Mrs. L.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Texas
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It's Not Easy Being Green!!My students are asking for recycle containers. This would allow them to place them throughout our school to gather paper and recycle other items....more
My students need 4 recycle containers.
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Mrs. C.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
Florida
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Wiggling Our Way To A Great GardenI teach a group of 5th grade students in an urban setting who have expressed an interest in doing more than just recycling paper. I would like to show my students another way that they can help the en...more
My students need 2 Worm A Way composting bins and a refill coupon to develop a greater appreciati...
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Mrs. L.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
New Hampshire
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Sun Power on the GoIf we could get solar panels with mini-motors, my class could do a hands-on study of solar power using some clamp lamps as sun sources. I hope to have them design different uses for their new power so...more
My students need 12 solar cells, 24 DC motors, 4 packages of alligator clips and 6 clamp lamps.
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Mrs. L.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
New Hampshire
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Recycle ManiaThis project will also enhance our curriculum in several areas. During our measurement unit, the students will mass the containers and calculate how much space we have saved as a school each week. We...more
My students need 22 blue recycle bins to establish a bottle/can recycling program.
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Mrs. L.'s Classroom
Poverty Data Unavailable
Texas
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Longhorns Go Green!The stackable plastic bins would take up minimal space and be accessible to the students and faculty. Students can take the bins apart and use them to collect the items throughout the campus on recyc...more
My students need 10 stackable plastic tubs.
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Mr. J.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Pennsylvania
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Project Green Smarts: Help Make Our School & Community GreenRecently, during our air pollution unit, my students got into a heated discussion about recycling. Seeing how passionate they were about recycling and seeing how my school didn’t recycle, I thought th...more
My students need 30 recycling bins to start a recycling program in our school.
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Ms. L.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
North Carolina
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Help Me Teach the School about Sustainability and RecyclingThese prizes are made from recycled materials (e.g.- pencils made from recycled newspaper, etc) so that students will understand what their recyclables can be used to make....more
My students will be participating in a Recycling Challenge. The class that recycles the most wil...
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Ms. R.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Illinois (State)
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Threatened and Endangered Plant Project Part TwoI would like to implement a botany project that would help to repopulate 10 species of threatened and endangered plants native to our state as wildlife habitats. Through this project my students will...more
My students need one set of plants labels, one Hanna Instruments Soil Education test kit, and one...
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Mrs. S.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
Virginia
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A River Runs Through Our Classroom!Ecosystems teach us about the environment and how living things can work together to achieve a goal. They will also learn that the way humans treat water directly affects the living creatures in that...more
My students need a river tank ecosystem, plants, and animals.
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Mrs. D.'s Classroom
High Poverty
North Carolina
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Children of the EarthEach year my students learn great songs for our Earth Day celebration. This year I'd like to take it a step further and really get my students to participate in a larger effort....more
My eco-conscience students need a solar charger, recycled pencils, rechargeable batteries, a digi...
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Ms. R.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Michigan
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Bulldog BioneersThe students need a place to put water, juice, and soda containers that are to be recycled. You can make it possible for the BULLDOG BIONEERS to reach their goals to be a recognized "green school"....more
My students need 3 bottle and can recycle containers and 1 large container on wheels.
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Mrs. C.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Nevada
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Dragons Are Getting GreenerWe want to create a recycling center in each classroom at our school. Each week committee members will be responsible for different jobs like picking up recycling from classrooms, cleaning, sorting, h...more
My students need 45 containers to enhance our recycling program.
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Mrs. M.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Nevada
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Our School Is Going Green!I sponsor an after school recycling club with 20 kids, so far, who are so excited to help the school Go Green! The new program that we are involved in is mixed recycling. The kids will be collecting...more
The students need 3 recycling bins to go around to the classrooms and empty the teachers' recycli...
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Mrs. B.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
California (South)
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Let's Learn How to Save the Planet by Saving the Bay!Heal the Bay and the Key to the Sea Program at the Santa Monica Aquarium shows children how to become future stewards of the environment....more
My students need a trip to the Santa Monica Aquarium to see how pollution affects all of us and w...
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Mrs. H.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
Virginia
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Hands On Botany Through Colonial (Organic) GardeningThe kids have proposed that we plant gardens like the Colonial Americans would have. Our compost pile is brewing. Now we need the equipment to work our gardens and a place to securely store our materi...more
My students need a variety of garden tools, 15 gro-bricks for soil amendment and an outside stora...
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Ms. M.'s Classroom
Moderate Poverty
California (North)
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Birds, Birds, Birds!With binoculars and birding books, my students can see the birds they have learned about....more
My students need 7 copies of "Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds" and 35 pairs of binoculars.
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Mrs. A.'s Classroom
High Poverty
California (South)
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Planet ProtectorsOur school is working to take some ecological steps to leave less of a carbon footprint. We have begun a recycling program, and we have had several lessons on ways we can conserve. Our next avenue wil...more
My students need 1 GEMS Schoolyard Ecology Kit, 1 Nasco Elementary Soil Class set, 1 set of 36 Ju...
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Ms. R.'s Classroom
High Poverty
South Carolina
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Chicken Soup for the Turtle's SoulMy students have chosen to raise public awareness on the life of sea turtles, the human and natural impacts on the turtles, and ways communities and individuals can help save the sea turtles. We are i...more
My students need scrapbooking materials, paints, paper products, and stencils.
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Ms. S.'s Classroom
High Poverty
California (South)
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Recycling Makes a Greener SchoolWe are embarking on a Recycle Challenge to help our school be green. Each week we will be collecting recyclable bottles and cans from each classroom and office on our school campus. Then we will sor...more
My students need recycling supplies for an environmental science project and a video camcorder fo...
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Ms. W.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Texas
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We Truly Believe We Can Save The World!My students need science equipment to explore and discover what types of pollution are harming our planet and what we can do to stop it....more
My students need 2 Environmental Quality Lab Investigation Series.
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Ms. B.'s Classroom
High Poverty
Indiana
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Changing EnvironmentsThe Investigation Kit sets up several different hands-on lab experiments to explore water quality, land fill, recycling, air pollution, and soil types, and the effects on different ecosystems....more
My students need the Environmental quality lab Investigation kit to explore 6 environmental issue...
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Ms. M.'s Classroom
High Poverty
North Carolina
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Mr. K.'s Classroom
High Poverty
New York (City)
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Testing Testing 1, 2, 3...Will This Work????Funding these project will not only give students the chance to change their environment but it will allow them to change the lives of many others. This will be the beginning of change....more
My students need a box of trash bags, recycled computer paper and pencils, a roll of recycled pap...
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