Help me give my students strawberry bare-root plants gift certificates small raised garden bed for growing, and pots for strawberry root plants for financial literacy lessons.
I have a classroom of twenty-five third-grade students who love to learn new things. I need to keep their attention by varying the activities in and out of the classroom.
Around 400 students attend our elementary school.
We have fifteen classrooms of students at our one-level school. Our small, southern Indiana school is a school-wide Title I facility in which funds are limited. About 80% of our students receive free or reduced-price breakfast, lunch, and book fees. Our school works hard to offer many additional after-school opportunities for our K-6 students like Garden Club (Green Thumbs), Robotics, and Running Club.
My Project
Our volunteer teachers have had professional development toward gardening and financial literacy development. Since our after-school gardening club does not receive any money from the school, we rely on donations from projects at DonorsChoose, community members, community businesses, and parents and sales from our plant sale at school and the local farmers' market.
The students are learning about financial literacy through the plant sale at school and the local Farmers Market.
A supply and demand lesson is also taught while selling plants at the local Farmers' Market. Through financial literacy, students will be able to learn how customers want to purchase good, healthy products. The money raised goes to purchase things for our garden club.
My students need strawberry bare-root plants and a small raised garden bed to grow additional plants. Plant pots are needed to grow plants in to sell. Since Indiana Berry has not opened up purchasing strawberry bare-root plants for the spring yet, we are asking for gift certificates to purchase the strawberry plants when they become available.
The club grows fruit and vegetable plants in our 40 plus raised garden beds. All of the fruit and vegetables raised in our gardens is taken home by the students for free. Learning to grow seeds into plants is a great lesson for the students' future. We are also learning about growing their own food - farm to table.
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