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Mrs. Tracy from Wilmington, DE is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Students Learn the Global Food System

Help me give my students a mounted set of commercial crop specimens, including barley and corn.

  • $690 goal

This project expired on June 14, 2024.

This project expired on June 14, 2024.

My Project

Food Studies is an innovative and interdisciplinary semester-long course that inspires students to become food citizens, individuals who understand that their food choices have a meaningful impact on personal, environmental, and community health. The curriculum's interactive lessons explore food's relationship to culture, the environment, and power, integrating science, ELA, and social studies learning. We will take a multi-faceted approach to learn about food through exposure to excellent writing about food, agriculture, and environmental sustainability; cooking labs that will help us learn through the preparation and tasting of food, and interactions with experts like farmers and other food producers through field trips to local institutions and farms.

The course has many objectives for participants: To understand food as a reflection of a society's values and priorities; To understand the importance of food as a foundation for individual, community, and environmental well-being; To understand food as an avenue to empowerment, citizenship, and social justice.

The reading, analysis, discussion, writing, preparation, and enjoyment of food that takes place throughout the course provides the knowledge and experiences for participants to achieve these goals.

I am requesting a mounted set of commercial crops, including corn and barley. Many of my students have no idea where their food comes from. I want to teach the entire food system, beginning with authentic seeds. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mrs. Tracy Odyssey Charter High School Grades 9-12

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More than a third 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

200 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
COMMERCIAL CROPS IDENTIFICATION MOUNTS • Ward's Science $547.70 1 $547.70

Materials cost

$547.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$585.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$103.40

Total project goal

$689.32

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