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Mrs. Aaland from Colorado Springs CO is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Nurturing Mother Nature

Help me give my students an opportunity to grow our established community garden with birdhouses, a greenhouse, and a compost to nurture our Colorado soil.

  • $332 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is a project-based learning school, where students solve real-world problems through projects that cover all subjects. In addition, we teach Project Lead the Way, which helps to emphasize problem-solving skills that lead to success. The kids are excited to learn through these hands-on approach methods.

We are a multi-diverse elementary school with close to or above 50% free and reduced-cost lunch recipients.

Our neighborhoods vary in income levels, therefore, it is difficult to ask parents to provide extended supplies for their students. The school is always looking for extra monies to cover technology and other supplemental materials that are too expensive for parents to buy.

My Project

As a part of our upcoming project based learning opportunity, my students have been tasked to discover how they can eliminate their carbon footprint and move towards helping our planet. My students have split up into groups and each group has come up with their own idea on how to move forward with helping mother nature.

My students are excited for their next project and to begin healing our planet.

One group has decided to make birdhouses for the community garden. Another group would like to create a greenhouse in order to help our school and community grow fruits and vegetables year round. We will discuss the importance of composting for the garden and create a compost. I am excited to see the outcome of these wonderful ideas.

Mrs. Aaland
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
porayhut Pop Up Greenhouse Cover Flower House Mini Gardening Plant Flower Sunshine Room Room,Backyard PVC Greenhouse Cover for Cold Frost Protector Gardening Plants (Large) • Amazon Business $99.99 1 $99.99
FCMP Outdoor IM4000 Tumbling Composter, 37 gallon, Black • Amazon Business $74.84 1 $74.84
Colorations BRDHSE Wooden Birdhouses (Pack of 6) • Amazon Business $28.64 1 $28.64
Fun Express Wonderful Wood Painting Markers • Amazon Business $10.98 2 $21.96
Jobe's Organics Compost Starter, 4 lb • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$233.42

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$14.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$281.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.74

Total project goal

$331.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$331.60

3 Donors

-$0.00

Donations toward project cost

-$0.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

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$331.60

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