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Ms. DiBari from Brooklyn, NY is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Studying the Impact of Superstorm Sandy- Fire Island, NY

My students need transportation to the Fire Island Wilderness Visitors center in order to analyze the breech Superstorm Sandy created. My students do not need anything else.

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My Students

To fully understand and appreciate Earth Science, one needs to be aware of their surroundings. Welcome to my Earth Science class - I do my best to incorporate topics that relate to my students' lives as well as the curriculum. I try to introduce my students to current events, but their understanding of such events is limited due to their lack of knowledge about the wider world. Like many inner-city teenagers, my students are deprived of opportunities. This is the challenge I face. Many of my students have never left Brooklyn, therefore, they have never seen a mountain. They have never hiked in nature or seen or visited a national park. I want my students to have that opportunity, to be able to experience something new outside of their own lives if even for only a few hours. This field trip to the Fire Island Wilderness Visitors Center would enable me to provide that opportunity for my students. As Nancy Newhall once said, “The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” I want my students to ask the questions that no one has yet asked.

I work in an inner-city, Title I, high needs school with about 2,500 students.

50 percent of the students’ parents do not speak English. Our students come from all over the world, with the majority from Russia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In addition, I have many students who are from Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America. I personally teach 166 students aged fifteen to eighteen. My students are energetic as they strive for attention and acceptance. Just like any student, they mainly want to do well, get good grades and fit in. Since my school is so large, it is hard for my students to get one-on-one attention, so my students are used to cooperating and collaborating with each other. They help each other with work, and share knowledge and resources. Although the students at my school are eager to learn, we frequently lack the resources to provide them with the most interactive, technologically and scientifically advanced lab/lessons. Being able to take some of my students to the Fire Island Wilderness Visitors center would be rewarding, and to some extent it would compensate for their lack of mobility and opportunity in the classroom. As teachers, we strive to provide our students with the most vital and stimulating information we can. For Earth Science, experiencing a barrier beach landscape firsthand would be the best way to teach my students about beach morphology. The majority of my students have never left the city, so for them, this would be a new and an amazing experience.

My Project

This field trip project is requesting bus transportation to Fire Island, a 32-mile long barrier island that parallels the South Shore of Long Island, New York. Barrier islands are a dynamic landscape; their shorelines are shaped by the wind, waves, and storms. When Superstorm Sandy hit on October 29th, 2012, the morphology of the island changed. Three breeches were created (a breech is when the ocean and bay meet). Two of the three breeches were filled in by the Army Corps of Engineers but the third one remains open, and is where I want to take my kids. Politicians want the breech to be mechanically closed while environmentalists call for it to stay open. My students will write a scientifically-based argument either for or against keeping the breech open. Other learning targets for this field trip include learning about the dynamics of a barrier island, understanding the relationship between greenhouse gases and rising sea levels, and learning about the perks of nature and hiking.

As Theodore Roosevelt once said, “There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” If you donate to this field trip project, you would be giving inner-city students the opportunity to expand their horizons and to experience the hidden charms of nature. Not only will my students share the ability to hike for four miles in the sand, surrounded by nothing but water and wildlife, they will also have the opportunity to act like real scientists – to visit a natural landscape feature, analyze the data associated with the landscape, and finally develop an argument about the landscape's fate. Everyone can learn something from just spending time in nature. With your help, I’d be able to give my students that chance.

Ms. DiBari Abraham Lincoln High School Grades 9-12

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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More than three‑quarters 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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Where your donation goes
Component Company Total
Transportation Greyhound $920.00

Trip cost

$920.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$963.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$170.08

Total project goal

$1,133.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,133.88

11 Donors

-$1,116.24

Donations toward project cost

-$963.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$152.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

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