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Mrs. Jones from Battleboro NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Our Birds - Help Our Community

My students need a pair of binoculars and 30 field guides to recognize the birds in our community, discover what they eat, and where they nest.

  • $621 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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

Our day starts with our motto: Think, Dream, Believe, Achieve. Many students have little experience discovering our world. This book will help them be excited and interested in reading nonfiction books through discovery of birds.

My students live in a poverty stricken area often without the necessities at home and for school.

Some are even homeless. Even though their circumstances are not the ideal, they set goals for themselves to change their lives. They are very spirited and excited about creating projects. Our school is a small rural school. We really focus on building up our students' moral and encouraging them by announcing each morning, "Remember you are somebody. You were somebody when you arrived and you will be somebody when you leave. You have places to go, people to impress, and things to do."

My Project

My students need a pair of binoculars and 30 field guides to recognize the birds in our community, discover what they eat, and where they nest. Student will learn about the birds in our neighborhood and use this knowledge to become involved in protecting the birds project. These guides will help students keep a log of the birds they see which they can graph to discover which birds are seen most often and which are hard to find. Students will then share this information with the Wildlife Refuge organization. Student will learn scientific names for birds. The books will also help them discover habitats and the type of food the birds need. Students will learn to love nonfiction books!

This project will help the students work on team building skills.

These skills will help the children take more responsibility for their learning. The children will grow a love for STEM projects and learn to love birdwatching so they can travel to different places all over the world. It will help them get excited about a career in science. The classroom will be filled with knowledge seeking children who will become our scientists.

Mrs. Jones
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
National Wildlife Federation's World of Birds: A Beginner's Guide • Amazon Business $13.97 30 $419.10
Olympus Roamer - binoculars 8 x 21 DPC I • Best Buy Education $36.16 1 $36.16

Materials cost

$455.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.51

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$527.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.11

Total project goal

$620.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $620.71

10 Donors

-$618.94

Donations toward project cost

-$527.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$91.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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