We’re one week into the DonorsChoose challenge for this year, and readers of this blog have already contributed over $2,000 to help school teachers and students. Those of you who have contributed, thank you very much for your generosity.
We’ve still got $4,000 to go to reach the goal for the challenge, though, so there will be more than a few posts coming up to try to solicit new contributions. Today, I thought I would try to highlight a couple of the proposals in the challenge, to suggest some more concrete giving opportunities.
We’ll start close to (my) home, with “Cruise the Forest”, a proposal from Walton, NY, a district I used to play sports against in high school. The district is right on the edge of the Catskills, which offers a great opportunity for a teacher to get kids interested in the environment… Provided they have the right supplies:
I am an agriculture teacher in a small rural school in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. As part of the curriculum, I have a wonderful 110 acres section of Bear Spring Mountain to “cruise”. I utilize this curriculum piece in 3 courses: AP Science, Environmental Science and Forestry.
I am slowly working to increase the amount of forestry equipment I have available to my students. As numbers in the program increase I am forever trying to equipment them all. I am currently seeking a field microscope, 5 hardhats, 5 compasses and a clinometer for field studies. I will utilize the requested equipment year around and it will serve approximately 100+ students.
There’s a good, solid science connection here, and this project sounds like a great opportunity for the students. They need another $300– that’s ten donations of just $30, each good for a blog post of your choice.
That’s just one of the 11 proposal left uncompleted in my challenge entry, so if you don’t like forestry, you can always pick something else…