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Past projects 12

• Supplies Needed For The STEM Lab Zoo's Animals

  Funded Jan 1, 2024

  Thank you! From my students and me, we are grateful for your support. With your funding and donation, our STEM Lab Zoo is able to continue to operate. With your funding and donation, the students will be able to learn through exploration, investigation, and hands on discovery. With your funding and donation, the students will continue to hand the unique learning opportunities each and every day.

  Your donation supports not only the students but the living things within the STEM Lab Zoo. Living things such as turtles, lizards, snakes, roaches, fish . . . and many many more, will be able to be cared for with the supplies requested and funded by you.

  Donors Choose and the generous people who make a choice to support todays youths, teachers and schools are amazing. Thank you!!! You are an amazing person and we thank you for taking the time and choosing to support my vision and students and our future!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

• Supporting the Stem Lab Zoo Animals

  Funded Dec 6, 2022

  Thanks to you, the STEM Lab Zoo is thriving. You donation funded so many resources and supplies, necessary to support the continued operation of the STEM Lab Zoo. All of the items purchased are being used by the students each day in an effort to care for the animals.

  Students continue to learn through hands on investigation, exploration, and interaction. Students continue to learn in this very unique learning environment, the STEM Lab Zoo. The STEM Lab Zoo, like no other, continues to support the students' learning about; life-cycle, reproduction, survival, habitat, camouflage, traits . . . just to name a few.

  Thank you again for your support and generosity. My students and I would like to let you know that your support has create new and unique learning opportunities for my students and our future!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

  This classroom project was brought to life by Optimum and one other donor.

• Little Children Hatch Little Ducklings

  Funded Jun 2, 2022

  Thank you for your generous donations in support of our project. Our students are learning so much about survival, adults / babies, reproduction, life, growth, and nutrition in preparation for our baby ducks. We are looking forward to the Spring time when we will use our incubator to hatch ducklings.

  When Spring arrives, we will use the incubator to experience the miracle of life. We will watch the formation of a duckling within our classroom. We will care for and grow our duck until it becomes time to release it to a pre-selected duck farm where it will live a happy life with other ducks.

  We greatly appreciate your donations and thank you again!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

• Learn About and Love Plants and Animals

  Funded Dec 30, 2021

  Good day and thank you for your support and generous donation. With your support, materials were obtained and will be utilized for the purpose of educating today's youth. Because of your donation, students have had the opportunity to plant, learn about, research, and care for plants. Plants which will support and promote healthy living, horticulture awareness, planting, growing and sustaining fruits and vegetables and animal care, by growing vegetables which will feed the animals in the STEM Lab Zoo.

  In addition, with your support, additional animals were able to be purchased to bring back the STEM Lab Zoo. We have many animals which students are able to interact with, learn about, observe, research, and care for. Students have the unique opportunity to learn through hands-on investigation and interaction about habitat, life cycle, survival, food chain, and reproduction . . . just to name a few.

  I would like to thank you again for your generous donation. It is because of people like you that the students of my school are provided with these unique learning opportunities. Thank you!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

• Bring back the STEM Lab Zoo!

  Funded Nov 16, 2021

  The STEM Lab Zoo is now re-opened thanks to your support and funding! There has been so much going on since you provided funding through your generous donation. We have welcomed so many new members to my Science Lab & STEM Lab Zoo. Students now have the opportunity to learn, explore, care, observe and interact with so many wonderful living creatures. Within our science lab environment, there are 3 snakes, Python, Milk and King snakes, Bearded Dragon, Leopard Gecko, Central American Tortoise, Tarantula, Red Eared Slider Turtle, Blue Crawfish, Goldfish, Tadpoles, and an Emperor Scorpion. In an effort to support the creatures and growth of the STEM Lab Zoo, our breeding program is now thriving with countless, Mealworms, Mega Mealworms, Crickets, Mice and Dubia Roaches. With the STEM Lab Zoo now thriving, students have been even more ecstatic about science. Students are motivated and learn through observations, first-hand discussions, hands-on discovery, interaction and investigations . . . just to name a few. Our daily group of animal care monitors continue to work with, learn about and support the care of all of the living things. Class trips are taken to the STEM Lab Zoo for all staff and students to learn, observe and enjoy! I thank you once again! My students thank you once again! Thank you for your generosity and support through funding this project!”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 4 other donors.

• Basic Materials To Learn With Needed

  Funded Dec 17, 2020

  Since your generous donation, countless student have been positively impacted. Students that did not have notebooks, for whatever reason, were provided with the notebooks they needed to support their daily learning.

  The process was simple. I sent several emails to the entire school staff. The emails read, "if your students need composition notebooks, please let me know the quantity and I will deliver them to you." The response was great and little by little the notebooks were provided to students.

  My vision behind initially writing this Donors Choose request was purposeful and simple. Why should children, during these already unprecedented and pressure filled times, be burdened with not having adequate supplies to learn with? It is up to us as educators and you, as caring members of this community, to ensure that our children have what they need to be successful.

  Without reservation, you came through! Thank you for your support and donation! Thank you for being here to support tomorrow's future! As the saying goes, It Takes a Village to Raise a Child."”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 6 other donors.

• STEM Lab Zoo - Mammals, Reptiles & Insects!

  Funded Nov 30, 2020

  Each day, without fail, students ask about all of the living thing once found in the STEM Lab Zoo. They ask, How is Popcorn?, our corn snake, or Where is Dash?, our tortoise, or When is Zeus returning?, our leopard gecko. My response is often, soon, and reassuring the students that they are all with loving families.

  With your support we are quickly approaching having the living things return to the STEM Lab Zoo. Student again, will soon have the opportunity to learn through hands-on investigation, interactions and real life observations. Students again will have the opportunity to learning about and love all living things. We are excited to, hopefully soon, have all of the living things back to our STEM Lab Zoo, living and thriving . . . well except for the mice, they get fed to the snakes.

  Thank you for your support and funding. With your contribution, the STEM Lab Zoo is ready and waiting. All of the habitats are setup, ready for the return of Popcorn, Dash, Zeus and all of the living things.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

  This classroom project was brought to life by Con Edison and 4 other donors.

• STEM Lab Zoo

  Funded Dec 19, 2019

  In my 20 years as an educator, I have derived that one of the challenges that students face in learning is having a lack of prior knowledge and prior experiences. My Science Lab offers the students a unique opportunity to learn through hands-on investigation and real life observations, therefore developing those experiences and obtaining the knowledge that is needed to thrive towards higher education.

  With your support, the STEM Lab Zoo will continue to thrive, provide students with a unique learning environment, and help students grow as life-long learners. The resources you funded are being used for the care of the animals and insects. The students love seeing one of the mice we breed get fed to one of the snakes. The students love to see one of the Dubia Roaches we breed get fed to the bearded dragon. The students love to see one of the crickets we breed get fed to the tarantula.

  My students will continue to have the opportunity to learn through hands-on investigation and observations. Because of your support student will continue to have the opportunity to learn about life cycle, food chain, reproduction, survival, environment, habitat, care, senses . . . just to name a few by observing and interacting with live animals and insects.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz

• Help My Snake!

  Funded Jun 9, 2019

  Each day hundreds of students walk into my Science classroom to explore, learn, experiment and experience the love of learning. As part of the the students learning is the love for all living things program which I have established. Students learn about all living things through interaction and hands on investigations. Students are engaged in all areas of science.

  As part of the love for all living things programs, there are a number of plants and animals living in my science classroom. Included in my collection of animals are 3 snakes, a bearded dragon, tarantula, 3 turtles, fish, frogs, leopard gecko and a breeding colony of dubia roaches, mice, mealworms mega mealworms and crickets.

  Sustaining and caring for the animals are a lot of work. Students volunteer each day to provide the necessary care for the animals. Through their volunteer work, the students learn about care, breeding, environments, habitats and the overall love for all living things.

  Thank you for your donation. With your support, the science classroom and love for all living things program continue to thrive. I thank you and many of the animals thank you for your support.”

  With gratitude,

  Mr. Lebowitz