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Students will plant flowers from seed while they are in the detention center (usually for 21 days) and tend a tiny garden with a small native citrus tree and existing flowers from previous students. Seeds can be grown in peat pots with each students' name so they can take ownership of care.

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Roses from Concrete*

School:
Detention Center West 
Subject:
Character Development 
Teacher:
Randy Grenon 
 
100283 
Students Impacted:
250 
Grade:
K-12 
Date:
August 12, 2024

Investor

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Hillsborough Education Foundation - $325.00

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Goal

Students will plant flowers from seed while they are in the detention center (usually for 21 days) and tend a tiny garden with a small native citrus tree and existing flowers from previous students. Seeds can be grown in peat pots with each students' name so they can take ownership of care. 

 

Category

Other -  

 

What will be done with my students

In addition to teaching some basic botany lessons, these plants can give incarcerated kids something to look forward to on a daily basis. Additionally, this project lends itself discussion of legacies and how actions taken now may have long term consequences. This is certainly a message that is important for my type of student to hear. 

 

Benefits to my students

Students will enjoy planting flowers and seeing something beautiful in what is by nature a very sad and depressing facility 

 

Budget Narrative

The rest of the gardening supplies are things that I already have. No further assistance would be necessary 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 10 bags topsoil $50.00
2 variety of flower seeds $20.00
3 shovel $30.00
4 peat pots for incoming students $25.00
5 potting soil for seed starting $50.00
6 established FL citrus tree $150.00
  Total: $325.00

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