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Ms. Opdenberg from Little Falls, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What's Underground in the Garden?

Help me give my students a ROOT-VUE FARM for an underground view of what's happening in our garden. Our students love to learn about healthy eating and new foods by growing vegetables in our school garden.

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My Students

Our district is an economically, religiously, and ethnically diverse town. We have a large population of immigrant families who benefit from the welcoming support of well-established families in town.

We are an elementary school where we try to instill a love of STEAM at an early age.

Science fires students' imaginations and helps them begin their life-long journey of learning. Our students love technology, science, and engineering and love STEAM class. As a STEAM teacher, this is a great opportunity to get our youngest students started in technology and electronics.

STEAM brings my students together, regardless of religion or specials needs. Students who succeed help other students, and that builds confidence and relationships.

My Project

RootVue will expand our existing gardening education program in a very meaningful way. Students love planting, weeding and watering in our school garden. The garden is perfectly aligned to our life cycles curriculum, and, along with books and the internet to teach how plants grow, I would like to show our students what's happening underground with the roots systems. With RootVue, students can actually watch the root system of several vegetables (onions, radishes and carrots) grow in real time in their classrooms, bringing science into their lives in a very real way. Students will be so excited to peek at the growth progress.

Ms. Opdenberg Elementary School 2 Grades PreK-2

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Little Falls, NJ View local requests 200 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ROOT-VUE FARM. • Ward's Science $146.41 1 $146.41

Materials cost

$146.41

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$178.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.52

Total project goal

$210.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $210.13

4 Donors

-$197.39

Donations toward project cost

-$167.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.40

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.25

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 $0.00

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