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Ms. D'Souza's Classroom

  • Holyoke Middle School
  • Holyoke, MA
  • 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

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  • Using Photo Elicitation for Self-Reflection and Community Building

    Funded Apr 7, 2022

    This is the second time you’ve helped me fund a project for my students. The first time, we had an interruption March 13, 2020, and I ended up not being able to complete the school wide composing program.

    I am so appreciative for this chance to do photo elicitation and narrative work with my 5th graders! Thank you, and I look forward to showing you the fruits of our collective exploration and community building!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. D'Souza

    This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose community & an Anonymous Partner and 2 other donors.
  • Unit 2: Ecosystems and Economic Systems

    Funded May 14, 2020

    Thank you for your generosity and communal spirit in these complicated and unfamiliar times. I will ask students to take photographs of their projects in their homes and show you how important learning through doing and connecting science to daily home and extracurricular life benefit them now and outside of our parameters of social distancing.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. D'Souza

  • Composting at Phoenix Springfield

    Funded Jan 23, 2020

    We made our goal and will be commencing operation school-wide composting! Thank you each for your generosity and confidence in our ambitious initiative! This will have a lasting impact, not just on students and their families, but on our local and hopefully, state communities.

    I look forward to sharing images and stories from the learning process.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. D'Souza

We have learned in our Environmental Science class that an effective way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., carbon dioxide) is for individuals and small groups of people to grow their own food in community gardens and small-scale farms. In order to do that, we need nutrient-rich soil, which is not always easy to locate in an urban environment so impacted by construction and the pollution that results from infrastructural maintenance. At PCA (as in most U.S. schools), we generate many pounds of solid waste a year. But we can at least compost food / organic matter and sell the compost to local gardeners to help our communities and fund educational materials and excursions.

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We have learned in our Environmental Science class that an effective way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., carbon dioxide) is for individuals and small groups of people to grow their own food in community gardens and small-scale farms. In order to do that, we need nutrient-rich soil, which is not always easy to locate in an urban environment so impacted by construction and the pollution that results from infrastructural maintenance. At PCA (as in most U.S. schools), we generate many pounds of solid waste a year. But we can at least compost food / organic matter and sell the compost to local gardeners to help our communities and fund educational materials and excursions.

About my class

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