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Mrs. Atkins from Indianapolis, IN is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let Them Go, Butterflies

My students need caterpillars and habitats for them to feed and grow. I'm requesting nine Insect Lore Two Live Cups of Caterpillars and seventeen Backyard Safari Butterfly Habitats.

  • $424 goal

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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

My students are 7th grade students at a science, technology, engineering and mathematics magnet middle school. Our school serves students who live in high poverty households. Ninety percent of our students receive free or reduced lunch. My goal is to help mold my students into life-long learners.

Our school is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics magnet effectively serving students who live in high poverty households.

Ninety percent of our students receive free or reduced lunch. Through innovative programs, we are showing some of the most rapid growth in the state as measured by standardized test score improvement.

My Project

I have seventeen excited inner city kids who have never seen a caterpillar transform into a butterfly.

It was their idea to do something that would help the community but also build on what other advisories in the school were doing, mostly cleaning or planting flowers.

Caterpillars transform into something beautiful just like we transform into adults in middle school. Butterflies are beautiful and delicate one of my students said to the class so if we are really careful we can help them all grow from caterpillars to butterflies.

My students have five weeks to complete their project and it will be just the right time to release the butterflies into the wild. We'll use the National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly for science background information.

This project is something interesting, exciting, helpful to the community, and very very educational for my students.

Mrs. Atkins
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insect Lore Two Live Cups of Caterpillars • Amazon Business $28.99 8 $231.92
Insect Lore Original Butterfly Garden with Voucher • Amazon Business $17.00 5 $85.00
National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98

Materials cost

$324.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$359.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.49

Total project goal

$423.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $423.26

12 Donors

-$211.63

Donations toward project cost

-$179.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.74

match offer

-$211.62

Match offer toward project cost

-$179.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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 $0.00

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