Help me give my students the greenhouse, butterfly migration station, host plants, and larvae they need to sustain their environmental passion for designing and building an outdoor pollinator learning lab at our school.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Roberts's classroom raised $988
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My Students
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”― J M Barrie.
My students are go-getters who constantly seek ways to share kindness and hope.
I love their passion and their energy! They want to do great things, be involved, and help to make positive changes no matter how big or small. They dream of a better place for everyone. The students in my class strive to make the world a better place.
This school year, my class has been learning about non-traditional gardening, pollinators and their importance on our world, and the impact humans can have on pollinators. We have a large, unused open space behind our classroom. A few months ago in class, a student said, "I feel bad for bees, most people kill them. Couldn't we help bees and butterflies if we made a garden for them outside, behind our classroom?" That's when the planning, research, and designing began. My students have created a solid plan to turn an empty, unused space into a schoolwide, outdoor, pollinator learning lab. They want to help our environment; they want to help honeybees and butterflies. All because of their kindness and compassion.
My Project
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” — Booker T. Washington.
My students would like to make our world a better place by creating, building, and designing an outdoor pollinator learning lab at our school.
Their hope is that by increasing the number of pollinator insects and animals in our community, they can give back to the environment. The greenhouse that we are requesting will be used as an outdoor life science learning lab. The greenhouse will help students cultivate a variety of host plants that several species of butterflies and bees require to sustain their individual life cycle.
The monarch migration station with milkweed and monarch butterflies will go inside the greenhouse as a starter host plant station. The mallow plants we are requesting serve as a natural host for the painted lady butterfly larvae we requested. These plants provide an excellent opportunity for scientific inquiry. Students can explore a multitude of lessons within this varied pollinator garden and migration station learning lab.
During the day the learning lab greenhouse door will be open so that pollinator insects can come and go as they please. Also, during the day teachers and students from all grade levels can come and go as they please; teaching and learning about pollinators, and their important impact on our environment and in our daily lives.
More than a third 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
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