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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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Dr. Price's classroom raised $193

Worm Habitat

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

This project expired on March 19, 2018.

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Dr. Price Sherman Avenue Elementary School
Vicksburg, MS Grades PreK-2

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.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

HBCU Alum 25 students impacted 3 donors
Dr. Price Sherman Avenue Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Vicksburg, MS View local requests

Nearly all 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

HBCU Alum 25 students impacted 3donors

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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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