Help me give my students materials to encourage them to become scientists! We need a grow lamp, tree and flower guides, a root view system, and books about scientists who work in botany, including astronauts!
I love my students’ imagination and passion! Their energy for learning is unparalleled, and their enthusiasm is contagious.
My amazing bunch of 28 students come from different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds that we celebrate every day.
Each student has a unique and valuable set of experiences and abilities that they contribute to the class. We have worked hard to build bonds with each other and consider our class to be like a family, while our classroom is like a home. Students truly feel safe to be themselves, take risks, and explore.
My Project
Students will be able to use a root view system to study plants as they grow in soil. They will be able to use a grow lamp to grow plants year round as this is a challenge in New Jersey during fall and winter. When we are able to go outside, students can use leaf and flower guides to identify what they see around them. They can also learn about composting so that we can reduce our carbon footprints in order to help Earth. In addition to learning about Earth, we will be learning about hydroponics on the International Space Station.
This is part of my initiative to get students outside doing hands-on science learning as well as to encourage students, especially girls, to enter STEM careers.
Books also include biographies of important women scientists, such as astronauts Sally Ride and Ellen Ochoa, physicist / chemist Marie Curie, and anthropologist Jane Goodall as well as postcards that will teach students about lesser known female scientists. We hope you'll support us in meeting this important goal!
Grow Light,36W LED Grow Lamp Full Spectrum for Indoor Plants,Plant Light Auto ON/Off with 4/8/12H Timer-8 Dimmable Levels Growing Light for Herb Succulent Greenhouse Garden
• Amazon Business
$26.98
1
$26.98
Fandex Family Field Guides: Trees
• Amazon Business
$9.32
2
$18.64
Women in Science: 100 Postcards
• Amazon Business
$16.40
1
$16.40
Ada Twist, Scientist
• Amazon Business
$14.36
1
$14.36
A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest (Peterson Field Guides (Paperback))
• Amazon Business
$13.98
1
$13.98
4M Grow a Maze Kit
• Amazon Business
$11.75
1
$11.75
Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
• Amazon Business
$11.04
1
$11.04
Ada Twist's Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists
• Amazon Business
$10.49
1
$10.49
Growing Plants in Space (Smithsonian: Informational Text)
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Exploring the International Space Station (Searchlight Books ™ ― What's Amazing about Space?)
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Living in Space: Kids Book About Life on the International Space Station: For Children Of All Ages Who Love Astronauts Space Ships Travel To Space ... Boys And Girls Fun Exploration Of Outer Space
• Amazon Business
$9.95
1
$9.95
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa (STEM Trailblazer Bios)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Composting: Nature's Recyclers (Amazing Science)
• Amazon Business
$8.95
1
$8.95
Fandex Family Field Guides: Wildflowers
• Amazon Business
$8.23
1
$8.23
Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants: The Questioneers Book #2
• Amazon Business
$6.00
1
$6.00
Who Was Sally Ride?
• Amazon Business
$5.99
1
$5.99
Who Was Marie Curie?
• Amazon Business
$5.99
1
$5.99
Who Is Jane Goodall? (Who Was?)
• Amazon Business
$5.99
1
$5.99
My First Book About Backyard Nature: Ecology for Kids! (Dover Children's Science Books)
• Amazon Business
$4.99
1
$4.99
Materials cost
$208.70
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$3.13
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$241.83
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$42.68
Total project goal
$284.51
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$284.51
5 Donors
-$143.00
Donations toward project cost
-$121.55
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$21.45
match offer
-$141.51
Match offer toward project cost
-$120.28
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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