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Mr. Torello from Paterson NJ is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Less Plastic For To Celebrate Earth Day

Help me give my students a chance for my students to spread the world about sustainability as a way to celebrate Earth Day.

  • 4 donors
  • $174 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 Project

With your help, my students can learn about the significance of water and the role it plays in our environment and personal lives. Learning about the earth and the need to use less plastic is a lesson we are working on. My intention is to develop an activity to get students thinking about the many ways that people use freshwater, and how we can conserve this precious and fundamental natural resource. We will discuss issues related to clean water availability, analyze water-use data, and start to think about how they consume and can conserve water. All with the idea of replacing plastic water bottles with tumblers.

Using these tumblers will be a concrete way of measuring not only drinking water and iced tea but saving the plastic that would've been used with ordinary water bottles.

We will be sublimating sayings and pictures to encourage helping the Earth on these tumblers. Tumblers, sublimation paper, and iced tea packettes are needed. Please help make this happen.

Mr. Torello
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
PYD Life 12 Pack Sublimation Glass Cans Blanks Frosted 18 OZ with Bamboo Lid and Clear Glass Straw Beer Cans Wide Mouth Jar Tumbler Cups Mugs for Iced Coffee,Juice,Soda,Drinks,Beer • Amazon Business $44.99 2 $89.98
Sublimation Paper 100 Sheets 8.5 x 11 Inches 125gsm, for Any Inkjet Printer with Sublimation Ink Epson, Sawgrass, Heat Transfer Sublimation for Mugs T-shirts Light Fabric • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
4C Powder Drink Mix Packets, Iced Tea Variety 1 Pack, 44 Count, Singles Stix On the Go, Refreshing Sugar Free Water Flavorings • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$115.46

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$147.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.97

Total project goal

$173.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $173.16

3 Donors

-$83.94

Donations toward project cost

-$75.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.09

match offer

-$83.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$71.34

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.30

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 $0.00

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