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Ms. Plummer from Bronx, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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How Does Our Garden Grow?

Help me give my students the tools needed to foster environmental stewardship and more positive attitudes towards conservation through place based learning initiatives and hands-on stewardship activities.

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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.

My Students

I teach a group of second and third grade special needs students in the Bronx, NY. It's a self-contained bridge classroom with 12 students, 1 teacher, and 1 paraprofessional. My students face a lot of challenges both academically and in their personal life as well. It is essential that students not only excel academically but also gain the appropriate social and real-world skills that will facilitate their college and career readiness from an early age.

Jim Henson said, "Kids don't remember what you try to teach them, they remember what you are."

It is my goal to create a safe, warm, and kind community in my classroom. I strive to facilitate socio-emotional student learning by placing an emphasis on building my students' character as well as their skill sets.

My Project

Biophilia is a term coined by researchers that describes an innate drive within all humans to connect with their environment. However, in order for this affinity to nature to develop, one must seek out activities that foster this connection. Due to the increased importance placed on technology over recent decades, many people have developed feelings in the opposite direction. As a society, we have created a world which values the mechanical and ‘non alive’ at the expenditure of nature. Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD) refers to the growing disconnectedness children are feeling towards nature. This occurs within children who spend little to no time outdoors interacting with the natural environment, and therefore lack an emotional connection to the natural world.

The effects of Nature Deficit Disorder can be both physiological as well as social/emotional, and can have a negative impact on the way young people perceive and treat nature.

In order to combat this growing attitude, people need the opportunity to connect more with their natural environment – to see the important purpose that it serves for our survival. Daily contact with nature, especially with younger children, has been identified as an essential component to facilitate this connection.

The goal of this project is to foster positive attitudes towards the natural world in students with disabilities who live in an urban community by providing them with more direct experiences with nature.

Ms. Plummer Grant Avenue Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ROOT VIEWER GARDEN 3 VEGETABLE ON STAND • Frey Scientific $11.77 5 $58.85
SOIL POTTING 8 POUNDS • Frey Scientific $5.24 10 $52.40
TRAY REPLACEMENT SEED FOR GREENBOX • Frey Scientific $8.99 5 $44.95
FLOWER POT 6 IN PK/10 • Frey Scientific $6.74 5 $33.70
TROWEL GARDEN EA • Frey Scientific $1.64 15 $24.60
SEED ALFALFA 15G APPROX 30/PACK • Frey Scientific $1.12 7 $7.84
SEED SUNFLOWER 7.6G APPROX 60/PACK • Frey Scientific $1.12 2 $2.24
SEED MARIGOLD 843MG APPROX 300/PACK • Frey Scientific $1.12 1 $1.12

Materials cost

$225.70

Vendor shipping charges

 $27.08

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$286.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.50

Total project goal

$336.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $336.67

3 Donors

-$232.78

Donations toward project cost

-$197.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.91

match offer

-$103.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$88.31

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.58

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 $0.00

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