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Ms. Bellino from New York, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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For a True Hudson River Experience, we Need Your Help

The cost of this proposal is $1948, including shipping 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>. To increase student awareness of their environment.

  • $1,980 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I am starting my third year of teaching at the High School for Environmental Studies, a public school in New York City. I started teaching science to a group of students with special needs. I have had the wonderful opportunity to continue to work with a lot of these same students. Last year I taught them in a Science RCT Prep Class. The class was designed to help them pass the Science RCT (an exam they need to graduate with something more than an IEP diploma). After much hard work, 27 of the students passed the exam and are moving on to another year of science. For our third year, I wanted to give the students something interesting and exciting. I am developing an Urban Ecology class that will focus on the Hudson River and the plant and animal interactions in New York City. Through this class, I hope that my students will feel a greater sense of the city they live in and the natural environment that surrounds them. I want them to learn that their actions, positive and negative, can influence the health of the ecosystem that we all live in. Our Hudson River Unit will begin in September and go through January. We will be working on projects looking at the geography, biology, ecology, and human impact of the Hudson River. For a final project, we will create nonfiction, children's books to share with our community. In order to achieve these goals, we need binders and dividers to organize our information, maps of the Hudson River, cameras and film to document our trips, field notebooks to record our observations and data, and book publishing equipment. This class will allow students to focus their learning on a particular resource in their community. Their books will give them ownership and accountability for their learning and a truly unique experience of reaching out to their communities to educate and raise awareness of environmental issues.

Ms. Bellino High School for Environmental Studies Grades 9-12

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More than half of 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

60 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
DOCUBIND C100 BINDING SYSTEM -- GBC Docubind C100 Standard Plastic Binding System • Quill Corporation $134.99 1 $134.99
600 FILM -- Polaroid 600 Instant Film; 4-pack - - • Quill Corporation $45.89 5 $229.45
POLAROID ONE600 PRO INSTANT CAMERA -- Polaroid One Pro Instant Camera • Quill Corporation $44.99 5 $224.95
1/2 PLASTIC BINDING SPIRALS -- GBC Plastic Binding Spirals; Black, 1/2" for Up to 100 Pages • Quill Corporation $11.24 1 $11.24
1/4 PLASTIC BINDING SPIRALS -- GBC Plastic Binding Spirals; Blue, 1/4" for Up to 25 Pages • Quill Corporation $6.74 1 $6.74
SPIRAL NTBK FLD • Lab Safety Supply $6.50 60 $390.00
PLASTIC INDEXES, 8-TAB -- Avery Plastic Colored Tab Dividers; 8-Tab • Quill Corporation $6.38 50 $319.00
1-1/2 DURATECH FROSTED BINDER -- Storex DuraTech Frosted Binders; 1-1/2", Blueberry • Quill Corporation $3.59 30 $107.70

Materials cost

$1,424.07

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$1,623.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$356.40

Total project goal

$1,980.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,980.00

1 Donor

-$1,624.00

Donations toward project cost

-$1,624.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$356.49

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$0.00

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