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Ms. Whitfield from Tulsa, OK is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What Can I Do For Oklahoma? Page 2

My students need the equipment (gardening tools) and materials (seeds, bird feeders) to continue building a wildlife habitat in our own backyard.

  • $684 goal

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"We are a Title 1 school with 100% free lunch and 98% African-American population. Title 1 funds are used to secure materials that directly relate to building skills that relate to AYP and NCLB. (With the current reductions in employment, due to the recession, our population of students are farther impacted). This urgency leaves very little funds to spend on "hands-on" activities that develop that sense of inquiry and wonderment in students.

I believe that one of my jobs as a teacher is to help develop students that will become responsible citizens and stewards of the world they live in. One way to develop that level of responsibility is to help students connect to the state that they live in. With that goal in mind I developed an exploration of the 12 eco-regions in Oklahoma and the part each individual student has in saving the environment. My students have concluded this exploration and we have begun working on a schoolyard habitat to bring our learning home.

To complete this project, my students will need gardening tools, seeds, bird feeders, wood, rocks, flower and vegetable seeds, and building tools. Our plans are to plant a flower and a "Three Sisters bed; build a nesting place for birds;a bat house and start a compost bin.

Your help will make it possible for my students to continue to have a hands-on experience in science by creating a wildlife habitat. This will be an experience that my students will remember for a long time and for some of my students it may make the difference between success and failure for them as students and as an adult.

Ms. Whitfield Hawthorne Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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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Nearly all 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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Genetic Corn Seed Green Albino Pack 100 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $6.98 2 $13.96
KIT- DECOMPOSITION • Frey Scientific, Inc. $72.00 1 $72.00
5880-6 NPK SOIL TEST KIT EA • Frey Scientific, Inc. $25.50 1 $25.50
LAB-INV EXPLORING POND MICROLIFE • Frey Scientific, Inc. $41.95 1 $41.95
Seed Starter Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $16.43 1 $16.43
Seed Pumpkin Pack of 60 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $2.95 2 $5.90
Bird Feeder Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $3.69 4 $14.76
Hand Tool Set for Horticulture • Carolina Biological Supply Company $34.88 4 $139.52
Gardening Tool Set • Carolina Biological Supply Company $145.08 1 $145.08

Materials cost

$475.10

Vendor shipping charges

$47.51

Sales tax

$21.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$560.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$122.96

Total project goal

$683.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$683.09

3 Donors

-$341.55

Donations toward project cost

-$280.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.48

match offer

-$341.54

Match offer toward project cost

-$280.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.48

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$0.00

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