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Exploring Animals

The cost of a trip to the zoo for 66 students and their chaperones is $909, including transportation and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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Does a penguin have fur or feathers? Can bears swim? How tall is a giraffe? What kind of noise does a real monkey make? My enthusiastic first graders are full of questions about animals, and I would love for them to have a chance to explore those animals and find the answers themselves at the Memphis Zoo. I am one of four first grade teachers in a small school in Duncan, Mississippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta. All 70 of the first graders at our school come from low-income backgrounds and often have unstable home lives. Because of their location and their circumstances, many students don't have the opportunity to visit the zoo to see the animals they read about in books or see on television up close. The families of our students have raised the money to cover admission to the zoo, but we need your help to pay for an hour-long zoo class for each child and 2 buses to take us the 100 miles to the zoo. Getting to see real, exotic animals up close, and learning about them from a qualified zoologist would be the highlight of the year for our first graders.

Ms. H.

Grades PreK-2

Casper E. Hall Elementary School

Duncan, MS

Mississippi

Nearly all students from low‑income households

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This project will reach 66 students.

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Memphis Zoo
(entrance to the zoo ($5/each, paid by parents), zoo class ($2/each), bus costs) 66 students and 16 chaperones $710.00

Trip cost			$710.00
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$17.75
Fulfillment labor & materials			$17.00
Total project cost			$745.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$163.54
Total project goal			$908.54
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$908.54
7 Donors			-$798.82
Donations toward project cost			-$745.00
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$53.82
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$109.72
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Exploring Animals

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Exploring Animals

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Give this project a boost!

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

Equity Focus

Boost your odds

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes

How we calculate what's needed

Give the most requested basic supplies

Give back to your community

Project Activity

Project Activity

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Supporting teachers and students since 2000

About Us

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Connect

Information for Teachers, Principals, District Leaders, and Government Officials

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.