Let's Build a Terrarium and Study Rocks, Crystals and Minerals!
Help me give my students a frog terrarium, with rocks, minerals, crystals, and books for research.
$292 goal
This project expired on August 29, 2025.
This project expired on August 29, 2025.
My Project
Our school library is like a natural history museum with aquariums, seashells and coral! Our tadpoles are sprouting legs and becoming frogs! Now the frogs need a terrarium with rocks and the students are eager to learn about crystals, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
For our city kids, studying frogs, crystals and rocks builds students' love of reading, literacy and the library.
When our curiosity is piqued, we ask questions and become eager to research and read.
Our diverse New York City students, who speak more than 40 languages among them, will greatly enjoy the opportunity to study rocks and minerals and create a frog habitat. They will put down rocks, plant moss and learn all about about woodland frogs common to the Northeast where they live. City children especially enjoy this connection to nature and this opportunity to learn about life cycles. Thanks for helping our students become scientists through hands-on learning and then researchers as they gain literacy skills through decodable early readers about rocks and minerals!
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
400 students impacted
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