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Ms. Handley from Waimanalo, HI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Project Ahupua'a Research

Help me give my students a resource library that supports research projects on local, cultural and environmental topics.

  • $993 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students range from 11-14 years old. They are curious, full of youthful energy, and are fun to be around. These days they face challenges brought about by the global pandemic that has been going on for much longer than anyone ever imagined.

Working in this middle school setting, I witness these maturing adolescence and am in awe of their resilience in a day and age so different than my own.

I can never fully put myself in their shoes, and though at times it seems that these students need to be taught about life, I have realized that they have their own stories and experiences to share.

These students enjoy being challenged- I know this because every day they show up and give it another go. They are born leaders and support each other's learning. They thrive and succeed as a group, and I respect the way they express themselves. They make me proud to be a teacher.

My Project

To revive our knowledge of the places we live here in Hawaii is the goal of this project. Students studying the different regions and their biological species, such as plants and animals that exist and thrive throughout this island chain are making connections to the unique places they call home. As students become scientists and anthropologists, the mountains, waters, rains and winds, the stories, songs and chants, and all the living things that make the place they call home unique will come to life in this project. The information they retrieve will certainly become a snapshot of a time and place for future generations to learn from.

Ms. Handley
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication, 2 Vol. Set) • Amazon Business $92.40 1 $92.40
Pana O'ahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Land • Native Books Hawaii $41.88 1 $41.88
Mapping the Lands and Waters of Hawaii • Native Books Hawaii $39.95 1 $39.95
Early Mapping of Hawaiʻi, The • Native Books Hawaii $39.95 1 $39.95
Marine and Green and Brown Algae of The Hawaiian Islands Algae • Native Books Hawaii $39.95 1 $39.95
Selections from Fornander’s Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore • Native Books Hawaii $36.00 1 $36.00
Plants in Hawaiian Culture (Kolowalu Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Treasury of Hawaiian Words in 101 Categories • Native Books Hawaii $32.00 1 $32.00
Hanau Ka Ua • Native Books Hawaii $30.00 1 $30.00
Hawaiian Reef Animals Revised Edition • Native Books Hawaii $25.99 1 $25.99
Lives of Hawai‘i’s Dolphins and Whales: Natural History and Conservation, The • Native Books Hawaii $24.99 1 $24.99
Kilo Ua: Rain Field Guide • Native Books Hawaii $22.95 1 $22.95
Hawaiian Insects and their Kin • Native Books Hawaii $21.99 1 $21.99
Poisonous Plants of Paradise • Native Books Hawaii $21.99 1 $21.99
Book of Honu, The • Native Books Hawaii $21.99 1 $21.99
Extinct Birds of Hawaii • Native Books Hawaii $21.95 1 $21.95
Modern Hawaiian Gamefishing • Native Books Hawaii $21.00 1 $21.00
From then to now: A Manual for doing things Hawaiian style • Native Books Hawaii $20.00 1 $20.00
Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii • Native Books Hawaii $19.95 1 $19.95
Hawaiian Survival Handbook, The • Native Books Hawaii $16.95 1 $16.95
Loko Ia: A Manual on Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration and Management • Native Books Hawaii $16.00 1 $16.00
Hawaii’s Birds • Native Books Hawaii $15.95 1 $15.95
Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore • Native Books Hawaii $15.00 1 $15.00
Hawaii Wetland Field Guide • Native Books Hawaii $14.95 1 $14.95
Gourds: Hawaiians and Other Polynesian Gourds • Native Books Hawaii $12.95 1 $12.95
Ancient Oʻahu: Stories from Fornander • Native Books Hawaii $11.95 1 $11.95
Plants of Old Hawaii • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Coconut Information: A Guide to the Greatest Plant on Earth • Native Books Hawaii $10.95 1 $10.95
Hawaiian Coastal Plants: An Illustrated Field Guide • Native Books Hawaii $9.95 1 $9.95
Ka Moʻolelo No ka ʻOʻopu • Native Books Hawaii $7.99 1 $7.99
Pocket Place Names of Hawaiʻi • Native Books Hawaii $6.99 1 $6.99
Hawaiian Wildlife Coloring and Activity Book • Native Books Hawaii $6.95 1 $6.95

Materials cost

$768.45

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$843.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.90

Total project goal

$992.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $992.69

11 Donors

-$980.93

Donations toward project cost

-$843.79

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$137.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.76

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