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Mr. H. from Washington DC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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CREATING A CLASSROOM INSECT ZOO

The cost of this proposal is $486, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>

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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.

I am a kindergarten teacher in an inner-city public school in NW DC. There are 23 children in my classroom. One of my goals this year is to enrich the science standards by providing resources and materials to enable my students to explore their curiosities of insects beyond traditional educational methods. One of the ways that I would like to do this is by providing an insect zoo for my students. In establishing an insect zoo, emphasis will be placed on the importance of insects in the environment and the role of beneficial insects. The children will learn to distinguish insects and their relatives from other animals. To achieve our goal, the theme will incorporate observation, graphing, classification, and all other subject areas to further each child's level of understanding. Also, parents will be able to share their knowledge and participate in our scientific studies. To create an insect zoo, I am requesting microscopes, an ant farm, a butterfly pavilion, a bug habitat, a bug table light, and an ant hill, among other insect accessories. Through observation, the students will contrast the eating habits, growth cycles, forms of movement, and sizes of the creatures. They will create drawings based on their observations and add them to a journal or scrapbook. It is hoped that you will help us achieve our goals for this unit of study. Thanks in advance for your help.

Mr. H.
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Root-Vue Farm • $27.95 1 $27.95
GeoSafari Talking Microscope • $26.45 1 $26.45
Butterfly Pavilion • $25.95 1 $25.95
Undersea Encounter • $22.91 1 $22.91
Worm-Vue Wonders • $23.36 1 $23.36
Giant Ant Farm • $21.95 1 $21.95
Cetificate for 5 additional Larvae • $14.36 1 $14.36
Ant Hill • $12.99 1 $12.99
Two-Way Microscope • $8.99 2 $17.98
Ladybug Land • $17.99 1 $17.99
Eye-See Magnifiers • $9.99 1 $9.99
Observation Habitat • $35.99 1 $35.99
Carnivorous Plant Habitat • $21.99 1 $21.99
Backyard Books 1 set • $39.60 1 $39.60

Materials cost

$291.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$398.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.39

Total project goal

$485.50

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $485.50

7 Donors

-$402.00

Donations toward project cost

-$398.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$83.67

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 $0.00

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