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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
We’ll start close to (my) home, with “Cruise the Forest”<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 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<\/a>. <\/p>\n That’s just one of the 11 proposal left uncompleted in my challenge entry<\/a>, so if you don’t like forestry, you can always pick something else…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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… Continue reading DonorsChoose: Cruise the Forest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,48,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-environment","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n