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Ms. Bakker from Chicago, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Plant Anatomy: We're Not Learning About the Birds & Bees!

My students need a set of microscope slides to learn about plant anatomy and a video to learn about reproduction (Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind).

  • $437 goal

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My Students

Do you have a green thumb or are you a notorious plant killer? Monocot, Dicot, more like a boycott! Our classroom needs a set of microscope slides to learn more about plant anatomy and become master gardeners.

The students in my classroom have never even grown a plant before.

That was until they became part of our classroom. Students in Horticulture will learn about plant biology, anatomy, and plant requirements to help them learn to take a seed and grow it into a plant.

My Project

The goal of my Horticulture classroom is to teach students how to grow plants including how to grow their own food. By learning how to grow their own food students can help secure food resources in an area that is lacking fresh quality produce and suffers from high poverty levels.

Think about what it's like to be hungry.

Have you every tasted a fresh tomato? Nutritious high quality food changes lives and can improve performance in the classroom. Over 84% of students in Chicago Public School receive free or reduced lunch. Help our students grow.

Ms. Bakker Lane Technical College Preparatory High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Chicago, IL View local requests

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

160 students impacted 14donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Plant Anatomy ID Classrom Slide and CD-ROM Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $225.53 1 $225.53
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind DVD • Carolina Biological Supply Company $80.70 1 $80.70

Materials cost

$306.23

Vendor shipping charges

$30.62

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$371.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.55

Total project goal

$436.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$436.99

8 Donors

-$199.08

Donations toward project cost

-$172.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.11

Matching donations from our partners

-$233.49

Match offers toward project cost

-$198.47

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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