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Mrs. Louia from Lexington NC is requesting Lab Equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Bring Nature to Life

Help me give my students the ability to learn to grow their own food. Help me teach my students what real wood looks and feels like.

  • $258 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I am a teacher in a Title I school. My classroom is made up of EC children and typically developing students. I have students who have special needs and behavioral challenges. My classroom also has students who are learning English as a second language. My students are in a low-income school with very little funding.

My students try so hard to learn new things!

They work hard every day to learn the new things that are needed for school. They love playing in the math and science center but needs some help to make it educational for them on their level.

My Project

In this project I have asked for a raised bed. With this my students can plant flowers and vegetables. This will allow my students to learn how to grow items.

The raised bed will be a flower bed and a vegetable flower bed.

The wood pieces will allow my children to explore what real wood looks like and feels like.

Please help my students learn how it is important and how it takes teamwork to grow plants and food. Help my students learn how to share what they grow with others around them. Help them learn to grow the food they eat every day.

Mrs. Louia
Grades PreK-2
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will reach 18 students.

9 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Raised Garden Kit • Kaplan Early Learning Company $109.76 1 $109.76
Natural Wood Treasures Pack • Kaplan Early Learning Company $62.96 1 $62.96

Materials cost

$172.72

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

State sales tax

 $13.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$218.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.61

Total project goal

$257.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $257.39

7 Donors

-$140.00

Donations toward project cost

-$119.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.00

match offer

-$117.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$99.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.61

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 $0.00

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