Seeds of Hope to Saving Our 'Royalty'

School:: Cypress Palm Middle
Subject:: Stem
Teacher:: Anita Saunders
Students Impacted:: 850
Grade:: 6-8
Date:: July 20, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

A Champion For Learning - $1,265.43

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 850

It is imperative that we provide students with experience in real-world conservation programs. This allows the students to take an interest in the world around them and become an active member in helping our planet. Discussion of the plight of the Monarch butterflies, something that resides in our own back yard, was a huge revelation for my students. Empowering the students the ability to collaborate with their peers to discuss how to educate the public about the plight and provide seeds to the public so they can plant and grow the Monarch butterflies only food source…the Milkweed plant, has been an excellent project. Students created home-made, environmentally friendly recycled-paper tags with seeds embedded in them. They also provided directions on how the public can just drop one of these seeded tags into the soil at their home and simply water them to raise their own Milkweed plants for the Monarchs. We hope to create our own school butterfly garden next year and hopefully can participate in the raising and the tag/release program and data-collection offered by monarchwatch.org

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

To help spread awareness and seed dispersal to our community, so that we can provide assistance in helping our endangered Monarch butterflies have the food resources they need in our area.

What will be done with my students

Students will make recycled paper and cut them into a variety of labels and stationary.
Students will attach Milkweed seeds to all their paper creations.
Students will sell these products at the annual Winter Extravaganza and Spring Fling.
Students will have a table to educate the public about the importance of the Monarch as a pollinator as well as why they are now on the endangered list. They will also discuss what we can do to help the Monarch.
Students will explain how people can just drop the environmentally friendly recycled-paper creation with seeds embedded into soil and simply water them to raise their own Milkweed plants for the Monarchs.

Benefits to my students

Students will actively engage in a real-world conservation program. Students will be empowered to take an interest in the world around them and become an active member in helping our planet. Not only will they collaborate with their peers, but also community members and organizations that are experts in Monarch butterflies. Future goals will be raising Monarchs and participating in the tag/release program and data-collection.

Budget Narrative

Item #1- Purchase from http://www.livemonarch.com/
Items#2-12- Purchase from Walmart

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Variety Milkweed Seeds-Livemonarch.com	$100.00
2	Ninja® Professional Plus Blender with Auto-iQ® and 72-oz.* Total Crushing Pitcher & Lid	$476.15
3	Large Sponges	$77.60
4	40 QT underbed storage box	$174.95
5	5-Tier Flat Drying Rack	$73.96
6	Shammy cloths	$108.00
7	7 pack of picture frames-8x10	$89.95
8	Elmer's Liquid Glue	$34.57
9	Cotton Terry Towels	$50.80
10	4x6 Tarps-5qt.	$47.94
11	Tent Stakes	$17.99
12	16oz Rubber Mallet x 4	$13.52
	Total:	$1,265.43

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