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Ms. Callaghan from Detroit MI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Rain Garden

My students need shovels and rakes to create rain gardens around our school to help reduce storm water pollution.

  • $436 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

"When people connect with nature, it happens somewhere. Almost everyone who cares deeply about the outdoors can identify a particular place where contact occurred...often the place that makes a difference is unspectacular; a vacant lot or scruffy patch of woods..." Robert Michael Pyle

My eighth graders are beginning their unit on fluid Earth.

We begin with where water is found and how people collect and affect waters quality. At our school we learn science by doing science. The majority of the students have difficulty in comprehending their textbooks. To aid in their comprehension they conduct experiments and build models to make the text come alive and thus their comprehension increases.

My Project

Rain gardens are an attractive green solution to limit the affects of pollution entering the storm water systems in our city. With the use of shovels and rakes my students can create multiple rain gardens around our urban school. By creating these gardens I wish to teach them how to be environmentally literate citizens. To understand that we need to take care of our environment and how exactly to do that, is the lesson I plan to teach them.

The impact that this lesson will have on my students is to make them aware of how they can impact their present environment and also their future environment.

It will get them to become involved in keeping their city clean. This lesson will allow them to see how small things can make a big change. How the simple act of planting a garden can influence the quality of water on our planet.

Ms. Callaghan
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Garden Trowel, Handle Material Plastic/Foam/Gel, Handle Length 8 In., Drop down Shank, Blade Length 7 In., Blade Width 3-1/3 In., Blade Material Stainless Steel, Blade Type Sharp Point, Handle Type Soft Ergo Loop Grip • Grainger $13.02 7 $91.14
Hand Cultivator, Handle Material Plastic/Foam/Gel, Handle Type Soft Ergo Loop Grip, Handle Length 8 In., Width of Tines 3 In., Length of Tines 5 In., Bent Staggered, Tine Material Chrome Plated Steel, Curved Shank • Grainger $13.02 7 $91.14
Bow Rake, Tine Material Steel, Length of Tines 3 In., Overall Width of Tines 16-1/2 In., Number of Tines 16, Handle Material Seal-Coated Wood, Handle Length 60 In., Handle Type Straight • Grainger $30.76 2 $61.52
Mini Round Point Shovel, Handle Type D-Grip, Handle Material Hardwood, Handle Length 20 In., Blade Width 6 In., Blade Length 8 In., Blade Type Forward Step, 14 ga., Steel Blade Material • Grainger $20.20 3 $60.60
Lawn Rake, Tine Material Steel, Length of Tines 15-1/2 In., Overall Width of Tines 23-1/2 In., Number of Tines 24, Handle Material Wood, Handle Length 54'', Head Material Steel, Handle Type Straight, Features Flexible Spring Brace • Grainger $15.39 2 $30.78

Materials cost

$335.18

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$370.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.33

Total project goal

$435.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $435.54

4 Donors

-$435.54

Donations toward project cost

-$370.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.33

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