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Ms. Ackalitis from Staten Island NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Nutrition Through Gardening

My students need a refrigerator to preserve their own gardening harvest for nutrition lessons.

  • $533 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I am a teacher in an all inclusive special education school. My class is a very involved autistic population with emotional and physical delays. The challenges these children face are many. Preforming simple every day tasks can be overwhelming and frightening.

My class of six pre-teen boys are having a wonderful time with our garden.

My students have dealt with busing and outside environmental phobias to work on this project. They have recycled bottles and cans to raise money, cleaned up the area, tilled the soil and placed fruit and vegetables, some grown from seeds, into their garden. Watching their socialization skills and start of their camaraderie is inspiring to us all.

My Project

Through our garden we have learned why fresh fruits and vegetables are so important in our diets. We are preparing to start a school store and sell our produce to all. Harvest time is our favorite time of the year! We now can pick, wash, and cook all our nutritious fruits and vegetables.

Now that we raised money to buy seeds and small plants, we need refrigeration to help preserve our finished product.

With a refrigerator, the class can start cooking and preparing meals, learning monetary values and furthering their socialization skills. The class needs to proceed and continue with this multi-learning experience.

Ms. Ackalitis
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Whirlpool 9.7 Cu. Ft. Top-Mount Refrigerator - White-on-White • Best Buy $399.99 1 $399.99

Materials cost

$399.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$452.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.94

Total project goal

$532.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $532.93

4 Donors

-$532.93

Donations toward project cost

-$452.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.94

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 $0.00

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