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Increasing Literacy through Environmental Action and Justice

Help me give my students a new and updated environmental science library for book shares and reviews that focus on environmental action and justice.

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At SITHS, I challenge students to think outside their comfort zone and try to walk in others' shoes. In my AP environmental and honors biology classes, we do this by comparing our personal, communal and national environmental impact to others, examining those consequences, and examining solutions on different levels.

Rather than hear me share facts and information, I'd like for my students to examine environmental science in a flavor that suits them best: this environmental action library would give students different avenues to explore and enhance their understanding of the world around them.

As students focus on a specific environmental topics within these books, they can share their new understandings with classmates and illicit healthy dialogues and discussions about the world around them as more versed global citizens.

Students at SITHS are exceptionally talented and enjoy taking their learning to new levels through mediums other than chalk and talk. I think many of them would have a much deeper insight on environmental action and justice through these texts as many have not ventured out of the five boroughs. I hope these narratives, stories, and facts will ignite them, encouraging them to make local and larger changes, all the while teaching them grassroots and the importance of science.

Ms. Toner Staten Island Technical High School 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility • Amazon Business $28.00 6 $168.00
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) • Amazon Business $14.85 6 $89.10
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash • Amazon Business $15.99 5 $79.95
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind • Amazon Business $14.59 5 $72.95
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River • Amazon Business $13.99 5 $69.95
Half-Earth • Amazon Business $13.02 5 $65.10
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think • Amazon Business $10.99 5 $54.95

Materials cost

$600.00

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$639.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.76

Total project goal

$751.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $751.76

2 Donors

-$500.88

Donations toward project cost

-$425.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.13

match offer

-$250.88

Match offer toward project cost

-$213.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.63

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