Help me give my students everything they need to create a pollinator garden at our school. We will use our greenhouse to support and maintain pollinators by supplying food in the form of pollen and nectar.
I teach at a middle school in a 90% poverty district with a high minority and special education population. I am the adult sponsor of the GEMS Club - Girls Excelling in Math and science. This club is made of girls in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade with a high number of our girls being recruited from the special education classes (80%).
Working with the wonderful girls in this club over the last year has demonstrated to me that it is not because they lack the ability or intelligence, just the opportunities .
A school garden provides a unique opportunity for students and teachers to engage with an outdoor space in the context of school.
My Project
Pollinator gardens are one of the most flexible, cost-effective and timeless educational tools available. These gardens provide clear, real life examples of the interdependent nature of our food ecosystem, and the valuable services that pollinators – yes, even insects – provide to human society. Approximately 75 percent of all food crops grown in the United States depend on pollinator animals such as insects, reptiles, birds and some mammals.
Our GEMS club members are excited to use our greenhouse and plant herbs, vegetables and local wildflowers.
They can see our garden come to life. Not only do they get to help our school have healthier, tastier lunches, but they will get to help our endangered pollinators as we. Pollinator gardens support and maintain pollinators by supplying food in the form of pollen and nectar that will ensure that these important animals stay in the area to keep pollinating our crops for continued fruit and vegetable production. Our local bees are endangered and we will Bee Houses to attract them as well as planting local native plants.
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
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Materials cost
$343.69
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$24.23
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.16
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$403.08
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$71.13
Total project goal
$474.21
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$474.21
16 Donors
-$461.86
Donations toward project cost
-$403.08
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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