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Ms. Williams from Detroit, MI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Healthy Hearts in the Salad Garden

My students need a subscription to Current Health and seeds for a vegetable garden to encourage a healthy eating, moving more, getting outside, creating a connection with the Earth, and Literacy.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Williams's classroom raised $552

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I teach seventh grade science and environmental science in an impoverished, urban community in the state of Michigan.

Like many children in urban areas, my students are struggling with childhood obesity. Due to safety and laziness, children are spending increasing amounts of time indoors and in front of the television set->moving much less. Due to poverty, fresh fruits and vegetables can be difficult to obtain->Eating poorly. This project will link up to a larger movement in our school to increase healthy habits (i.e. "Eat better, move more, and don't smoke" campaign). My classes would like to learn about healthy habits throughout the year and begin to integrate those ideas into our lives. This would include creating a "Salad Garden" where we will start the seeds indoors, transplant the seeds outdoors in the spring, care for the seedlings and plants, discuss various science concepts as we watch the plants grow (e.g. germination and genetics), and harvest our garden in the spring/summer. We hope to make our own salads to eat at the culmination of the school year (June 21) or summer school (early August).

The "Salad Garden" will provide the perfect opportunity for students to learn various scientific concepts, healthy eating habits, move more, get outdoors, and create a relationship to the Earth. The Current Health magazines will encourage literacy while providing various other ideas for the students to learn about and potentially implement in their own lives and in class.

Your help will give my students the resources they need to make better, healthier choices for the Earth, their own well being, and for those who love them.

Ms. Williams Phoenix Elementary Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

100 students impacted 18donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Current Health 1 (For Orders of 10 or More Subscriptions) • Weekly Reader $10.25 28 $287.00
SEEDS-LETTUCE LEAF 4OZ/PK • Sargent-Welch $8.19 1 $8.19
SEEDS - RADISH RED 1OZ/PK • Sargent-Welch $3.15 1 $3.15
SEEDS - CORN 4OZ/PK • Sargent-Welch $5.09 1 $5.09
SEEDS LIMA BEAN PK4OZ • Sargent-Welch $3.15 1 $3.15
Seeds • AKJ Books $3.44 1 $3.44
Seed Cucumber Pack of 75 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $1.95 1 $1.95
SEEDS - PEA 4OZ/PK • Sargent-Welch $3.38 1 $3.38
Tomato Seed Green Yellow Green Yellow 1 2 1 Pk 100 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $10.35 1 $10.35
Genetics of Plants Seed Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $36.00 1 $36.00
Seed Starter Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $16.43 1 $16.43
Sunflower Viable Seed 1 lb • Carolina Biological Supply Company $8.33 1 $8.33
Corn Sweet Viable Seed 1 lb • Carolina Biological Supply Company $11.25 1 $11.25

Materials cost

$397.71

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.77

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$452.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.32

Total project goal

$551.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $551.78

14 Donors

-$529.83

Donations toward project cost

-$452.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.37

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.95

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 $0.00

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