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Mrs. Payne from Baton Rouge LA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Cultivating Fine Motor Skills Through Gardening for Children With Autism

Help me give my students the garden tools they need to develop their fine motor skills while gardening.

  • 1 donor
  • $1,024 still needed

expires Aug 11

  • 1 donor
  • $1,024 still needed
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My Project

How requesting these items make a difference in students' learning?

This project makes a difference in the learning because it targets students'deficits in fine and gross motor skills.

Using garden tools or devices like, wagons to transport items, tillers to cultivate soil, and leaf blowers to remove leaves or light weight debris will improve students' hands and eye coordination, object grasping, and hand strength.

Project Goals

Activities like planting seeds and operating gardening equipment are known to be ways to develop gross and fine motor skills for students with disabilities. In addition, while creating a garden, students will learn to work as a team to nurture plants, and in the process, acquire appropriate social skills. As a result, students can become comfortable interacting with other peers. Through this project, participants are exposed to a variety of textures by working with soil, plants, and operating powered gardening tools. The atmosphere of working outdoors is known to produce a calming effect for some students with ASD. Researchers assert, "gardening projects allow students with special needs to be more receptive to assigned task." Rather than giving directions at one time, information is given in intervals while student participants develop dexterity.

Why are my students special?

As a teacher of seven male students with Autism Spectrum Disorder or (ASD), finding ways to meet individual needs becomes a daunting task. Researchers are perplexed as to why ASD tends to be more prevalent among boys than girls, however; it does occur. Nevertheless, my students are special in multiple ways. For example, one student finds it difficult to concentrate inside the classroom, another is distracted by colorful wall pictures and lastly, one finds too many choices overwhelming. Because of diverse needs, this project can address engagement of all students by assigning specific gardening tasks outside the classroom.

Mrs. Payne
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EGO Power+ LB7654 765 CFM Variable-Speed 56-Volt Lithium-ion Cordless Leaf Blower with Shoulder Strap, 5.0Ah Battery and Charger Included • Amazon Business $329.00 1 $329.00
Greenworks - 10 " 80 Volt Cultivator/Tiller (2Ah battery charger included) - Black • Best Buy Education $299.99 1 $299.99
Navatiee Wagon Cart Heavy Duty Foldable, Collapsible Wagon with Smallest Folding Design, Utility Grocery Wagon for Camping Shopping Sports • Amazon Business $75.97 1 $75.97
MIXC Plant Nursery Pots with Humidity Dome 4" Soft Transparent Plastic Gardening Pot Planting Containers Cups Planter Small Starter Seed Starting Trays for Seedling with 10pcs Plant Labels，30 Sets… • Amazon Business $18.99 4 $75.96

Materials cost

$780.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $68.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$890.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$157.23

Total project goal

$1,048.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,048.19

1 Donor

-$25.00

Donations toward project cost

-$21.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $1,023.19

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