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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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Wisdom from the Past, Wisdom for the Future

Help me give my students essential literature as they explore and cultivate opportunities in agriculture, health and environmental stewardship.

  • $1,000 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

My students range from 11-14 years old. They are curious, full of youthful energy, and are fun to be around. Everyday they face a different challenge, whether it be in the school, home, or community setting.

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 story and experiences to share.

These students deserve to make mistakes so they can learn to lead. They deserve to be challenged so they can learn to keep moving forward. They deserve to express themselves.

My Project

Much of the literature requested for this projects, or rather, projects are primary sources of information, written in the time of old in Hawaii. My students will use such literature to support and encourage a year-long journey in the discipline of traditional Hawaiian farming. As novice gardeners, these students will apply knowledge of the seasons, moon phases, and culturally significant plants shared in the thoughts of these pages. In our school garden, students will become novice practitioners and curators of this information. Their learning this year is only the beginning of their journey as stewards of the land for a culturally-centered and sustainable future.

Ms. Handley
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ka Hana Kapa • Native Books Hawii $90.00 1 $90.00
Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo: Ka ʻŌlelo Kumu, Volume 1, The • Native Books Hawii $68.00 1 $68.00
Loulu: The Hawaiian Palm • Native Books Hawii $48.00 1 $48.00
Medicine at your feet: Healing plants of the Hawaiian kingdom • Native Books Hawii $31.95 1 $31.95
Growing Plants for Hawaiian Lei • Native Books Hawii $30.00 1 $30.00
Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians • Native Books Hawii $28.00 1 $28.00
A Native Hawaiian Garden: How to Grow and Care for Island Plants • Amazon Business $25.37 1 $25.37
Nānā I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source, Volume III • Native Books Hawii $25.00 1 $25.00
Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawaiʻi • Native Books Hawii $24.99 1 $24.99
Plants for our healing • Native Books Hawii $24.95 1 $24.95
Hawaiian Herbal Medicine: Kahuna Lāʻau Lapaʻau, Second Edition • Native Books Hawii $24.95 1 $24.95
Hawaii Dye Plants and Dye Recipes - softcover • Native Books Hawii $22.95 1 $22.95
Polynesian Herbal Medicine • Native Books Hawii $22.00 1 $22.00
Nānā I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source, Volume 1 • Native Books Hawii $21.00 1 $21.00
ʻŌpae Ē: The Story • Native Books Hawii $20.00 1 $20.00
ʻO wai ka inoa o kēia iʻa? • Native Books Hawii $20.00 1 $20.00
Ho'oponopono • Native Books Hawii $20.00 1 $20.00
Na Inoa: Selected Hawaiian Personal and Proper Names • Native Books Hawii $19.95 1 $19.95
Place Names of Hawaiʻi Revised and Expanded Edition • Native Books Hawii $18.99 1 $18.99
How to weave Hawaiian coconuts palm fronds • Native Books Hawii $18.95 1 $18.95
How to weave authentic Hawaiian bracelets • Native Books Hawii $18.95 1 $18.95
Plants of the Canoe People • Native Books Hawii $18.00 1 $18.00
Mohala Mai 'O Hau | How Hau Became Hauʻula • Native Books Hawii $16.00 1 $16.00
Super Simple Guide to Creating Hawaiian Gardens: For Kama'aina and Malihini • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Plants in Hawaiian Medicine • Native Books Hawii $14.95 1 $14.95
Ano Lani: Ano Honua - A Heavenly Nature, An Earthly Nature: A Spiritual Guide to the Hawaiian Lunar Calendar • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Coconut Information: A Guide to the Greatest Plant on Earth • Native Books Hawii $10.95 1 $10.95
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Hawaiian Birth Signs: Nā Hōʻailona Hānau The Hawaiian Lunar Calendar • Native Books Hawii $9.95 1 $9.95
tropical organic gardening hawaiian style • Native Books Hawii $9.95 1 $9.95
He Mau Nane Hawaiʻi Hawaiian Riddles • Native Books Hawii $8.95 1 $8.95
Petroglyphs of Hawaiʻi • Native Books Hawii $8.95 1 $8.95

Materials cost

$760.63

Vendor shipping charges

 $13.95

Sales tax

 $33.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$849.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.90

Total project goal

$999.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $999.36

11 Donors

-$969.85

Donations toward project cost

-$849.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$120.39

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.51

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