My students are growing learners who need additional support to spark and ignite their curiosity and love of learning. Some have struggled within a typical classroom all of their educational careers. At my school, our team of teachers hopes to break that cycle by using engaging projects, innovative teaching, instructional technologies, and partnering with businesses to offer more authentic learning experiences. We hope to help our students become the future boost the area needs to open new businesses and bring new ideas to make it the booming beacon it once was.
My students have great potential to be the change our area needs.
However, we need to continue to challenge and enrich their learning environment. By having project-based learning as our main focus to try and re-engage and enrich their learning, we also need to meet their other demands. We need to foster within them to independently seek out challenges and persevere through them. We need to develop within them the ability to become lifelong learners. By offering a variety of opportunities, we can help these students become well-rounded individuals.
My Project
My students rely on school as a source of food, routine, and comfort. I have run a snack closet for them for the last year and half and constantly need to restock. We are at that point in the year where snacks are running low and they are thinking harder and hungrier than ever. Students will come in from recess or PE class asking for snacks, be it healthy Kind Bars or comfort snacks like Cheetos, so they are energized for the rest of the day. They will also ask for Gatorades to re-hydrate and energize themselves after a busy morning.
Some students use snack as comfort, breakfast, or a snack right before they leave school.
This small gesture of providing food motivates and encourages students to succeed in classes. By having cookies, crackers, Kind bars, and various other snacks (varying from healthy to comfort), students can get what they need to succeed.
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
Grandma's Cookies Variety Pack, 30 Count
• Amazon Business
$14.98
5
$74.90
Ultimate Snack Care Package, Variety Assortment of Chips, Cookies, Crackers & More, 40 Count
• Amazon Business
$16.99
4
$67.96
Healthy Snacks and Bars Variety Pack Gift Snack Box - Bulk Sampler (Care Package 56 Count)
• Amazon Business
$32.99
2
$65.98
Ultimate Healthy Bar Care Package (50 Count), Office Snacks Gift Variety Pack Bulk Sampler, for Christmas, Holidays, Office Meetings, School, Military, Family & Friends, Final Exams
• Amazon Business
$31.99
2
$63.98
Send & Share Variety Snack Box, Assortment of Baked, Popped and Nut Snacks, 30 Count
• Amazon Business
$19.99
3
$59.97
Kind Mini Chocolate Bars Variety Pack, 36 Count (1 Box)
• Amazon Business
$18.54
3
$55.62
Gatorade Classic Thirst Quencher, Variety Pack, 12 Ounce Bottles (Pack of 24)
• Amazon Business
$12.25
4
$49.00
Popchips Potato Chips, Variety Pack, 24 Count (Single Serve 0.8 oz Bags), 4 Flavors: Salt, BBQ, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar
• Amazon Business
$19.84
2
$39.68
Kind Bars - 18 Bar Variety Pack - 18 Flavors
• Amazon Business
$31.97
1
$31.97
Nabisco Cookies Sweet Treats Variety Pack Cookies - with Oreo, Chips Ahoy, & Golden Oreo - 30 Snack Packs
• Amazon Business
$6.98
3
$20.94
WELCH'S Fruit Punch and Island Snacks, 0.9 Ounce, 40 Count
• Amazon Business
$11.19
1
$11.19
Welch's Fruit Snacks, Mixed, 0.9 Ounce, 80 Count
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
Materials cost
$820.74
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$12.31
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$863.05
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$152.30
Total project goal
$1,015.35
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,015.35
1 Donor
-$508.00
Donations toward project cost
-$431.80
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$76.20
match offer
-$507.35
Match offer toward project cost
-$431.25
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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