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Mrs. A. from Miami Lakes, FL is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Watch Our Butterflies Grow to Create a Beautiful, Serene Garden

Help me give my students the opportunity to create a beautiful butterfly garden to reduce stress.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Our students come from diverse backgrounds and travel a distance to attend our school. Nearly all of our students receive free or reduced-price lunch and all receive free breakfast. Our school is not a neighborhood school and students must apply to attend. However, we accept all students who meet the minimum requirements, which are conduct and attendance in middle school.

We are a wall to wall academy high school with five academies.

The Health Academy students are able to job shadow at neighboring health facilities while attending our school.

Students are able to graduate high school and earn an entry-level workplace certificate in a specific field of interest.

My Project

Our school is located in an industrial area next to an airport. We do not have the availability to have a lot of land to see nature. We would like to have a butterfly garden that will expose our students to the complexity and beauty of nature. At the present time, we have a vegetable garden. This has been very well received by our community. However, we want to create a serene atmosphere where students can sit and enjoy nature within a butterfly garden.

Students will have the opportunity to sit on benches under trees and hopefully become less stressed with the growing of painted lady butterflies.

When the butterflies hatch toward the end of the school year, it will be a stressful time for students. This area will give a nice retreat for students to learn about butterflies and the life cycle of the larvae into a butterfly. Butterflies have proven to provide relief from problems that our students face every day.

Mrs. A. Miami Lakes Education Center & Technical College 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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Miami Lakes, FL 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

400 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Butterfly Display Cage • Carolina Biological Supply Company $113.04 2 $226.08
Butterflies in the Classroom Kit (with live caterpillars) • Carolina Biological Supply Company $62.05 3 $186.15
Painted Lady Culture 33 Larvae Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $45.90 1 $45.90
Butterfly Feeding Station Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $7.02 3 $21.06
Butterflies in the Classroom Digital Resources • Carolina Biological Supply Company $8.95 1 $8.95

Materials cost

$488.14

Vendor shipping charges

 $48.81

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$574.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.34

Total project goal

$675.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $675.61

1 Donor

-$675.61

Donations toward project cost

-$574.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$101.34

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