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Dr. Price from Vicksburg MS is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Worm Habitat

My students need a worm composter to see the importance of these small creatures.

  • $193 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I work with 25 students from an impoverished area where one hundred percent receive free lunch. Ninety percent of our students live in single parent homes. My school services over 450 deserving children on a daily basis. Our school is a safe haven where our focus is to educate the whole child. These children are very special to me. They come to school with a desire to learn, but things beyond their control hinders them from focusing on academics.

As an educator, it is my job to connect real world situations to standards-based learning.

This can do be done by making connections with things around us.

My Project

During the 3rd Nine Weeks of our school year, I will be introducing my students to the book Earthworms by Claire Llewellyn. This book focuses on the habitat of worms. What better way to incorporate a STEM with reading. By allowing the students to care for the worms, this will spark their interest in careers in STEM.

By having the worm composter in the classroom, it will introduce my students to the importance of decomposers in the food web as well as the concept of recycling through composting.

As students add kitchen waste to this "vermi-composter," they observe the quick and efficient conversion of organic matter into enriched soil components by redworms.

Dr. Price
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Worm Composter Classroom Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $112.45 1 $112.45

Materials cost

$112.45

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.24

Sales tax

 $7.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$163.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.81

Total project goal

$192.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $192.06

3 Donors

-$191.53

Donations toward project cost

-$163.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.28

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.53

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 $0.00

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