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Ms. LaBar from Philadelphia PA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Us Grow Food!

My students need an aero garden and seeds to start an indoor garden at our school.

  • $232 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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.

My Students

My students attend a Title I School, and almost seventy percent receive free or reduced price lunch and breakfast. They attend a magnet school which requires most students to maintain a B average throughout the year. The students are part of Pre-Med, Engineering, Environmental Science, or Computer Technology programs.

Our students come from the diverse backgrounds of thirty different countries.

This makes our school pretty special in so many ways. The students all work so hard and are very deserving of this project.

My Project

I want my students to really see where food comes from. So many think that food comes prepackaged. We will grow our own fruits and vegetables like strawberries, blackberries, tomatoes and cucumbers, and flowers from the seeds. We will start them in our Aero Garden in our class and then transfer them once they are big enough.

I want my students to see that growing their own food is good for the environment and their bodies with a school garden and seeds.

I want to grow food at school and then also provide plants for them to take home to grow. I think they will take pride in their hard work and appreciate the food more.

Ms. LaBar
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
AeroGarden Sprout LED with Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit, Teal • Amazon Business $99.95 1 $99.95
AeroGarden Grow Anything Seed Pod Kit (1-Season) • Amazon Business $17.95 2 $35.90
AeroGarden Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit (7-Pod) • Amazon Business $14.31 2 $28.62

Materials cost

$164.47

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$196.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.75

Total project goal

$231.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $231.69

5 Donors

-$111.00

Donations toward project cost

-$102.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.40

match offer

-$110.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$94.34

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.71

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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