My students need field guide books about mammals and birds and fish to help bring the environment into the classroom.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Maggio's classroom raised $273
This project is fully funded
My Students
Hello everyone, I am a New York City high school biology teacher. My classes are generally composed of freshman and sophomore students, many of whom, seem to have lost (or hidden) that childhood curiosity for the world around them that was, at one time, so insatiable.
Yet, this year I am coaching a group of urban NYC students who are excited and eager to learn all they can about the environment in which we live and that is common in the rest of the state.
Many of these students want to pursue careers in environmental fields when they go to college, but for now want to learn all they can to prepare.
What they want to prepare for is college three years down the road, and the Envirothon Competition we wish to participate in next year. But as these students are starting the team from scratch, we have no materials with which they can prepare!
My Project
And so that is where you come into play! I am asking for your help to buy the reading materials they will need to compete against students from all 55 counties in NY state in the fields of Forestry, Aquatics, Soils and Wildlife. My very urban students who barely see trees will be competing against upstate students who have 4H programs at their schools as well as farm animals on campus!! We need books, bird song DVDs, soil samples and leaf ID kits. We need to bring the environment to our classroom because there is precious little of it outside!
Activities and programs like these teach the students how to work together to solve problems and approach adversity. These are skills they will need as they prepare for and attend college, as well as for all that follows.
Help me to prepare these eager and excited students to compete against their more rural peers in a competition on unfamiliar territory.
But more importantly help me to help these environmentally conscience students to achieve their goals of acting as future stewards of this world!
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
Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America Fiona Reid
• AKJ BOOKS
$11.56
1
$11.56
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, National Audubon Society Staff
• AKJ BOOKS
$13.00
1
$13.00
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Lousiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, Gil Nelson, Brian Cassie, Jonathan D. W. Kahl, Eirc A. Oches
• AKJ BOOKS
$13.00
1
$13.00
National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
• AKJ BOOKS
$13.00
2
$26.00
Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America Nora Bowers, Kenn Kaufman, Rick Bowers
• AKJ BOOKS
$15.16
1
$15.16
Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Foreword by Ike Sugg, Foreword by Ike C. Sugg
• AKJ BOOKS
$14.74
1
$14.74
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America Edward S. Brinkley, Foreword by Craig Tufts
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$13.00
1
$13.00
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, John Farrand, Revised by John Farrand
• AKJ BOOKS
$13.00
1
$13.00
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America David Allen Sibley, David Allen Sibley (Illustrator)
• AKJ BOOKS
$13.00
1
$13.00
The New York City: Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area Marcia T. Fowle, Louise Zemaitis (Illustrator), Paul Kerlinger
• AKJ BOOKS
$17.05
1
$17.05
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: New York Jonathan Alderfer
• AKJ BOOKS
$12.77
1
$12.77
New York City Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species in the Metropolitan Area James Kavanagh
• AKJ BOOKS
$5.08
1
$5.08
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes: North America (National Audubon Society Series) NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, Carter R. Gilbert, Carter Rowell Gilbert
• AKJ BOOKS
$14.31
1
$14.31
A Field Guide to Atlantic Coast Fishes: North America C. Richard Robins, Carleton Ray, Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), John Douglass (Illustrator)
• AKJ BOOKS
$11.89
1
$11.89
Materials cost
$193.56
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.90
Fulfillment labor & materials
$35.00
Total project cost
$231.46
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$40.85
Total project goal
$272.31
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$272.31
2 Donors
-$272.31
Donations toward project cost
-$231.46
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