Hillsborough Education Foundation School and Classroom Enrichment Grants
Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.
Sylvia Pheneger & Michael E Pheneger; Richard J Ellis - $1,041.00
Our goal this year is to take our butterfly, bird, and vegetable garden you helped us build last year to the next level. We would now like to make it a true outdoor classroom. We would like to add a composter, a drip water system, a rain barrel, and some hydroponic gardening. We have also added an afterschool gardening and birding club to our schoolwide outdoor classroom we created last year in which all 750 students use. We would like to make this area more sustainable and echo friendly. We'd like to add a few more bird feeders for classroom investigations, and replenish a few of butterfly plants that didn't make it through the summer heat. Most are still flourishing. We'd like to add a few tools to do some soil investigations as well this year. Our goal is to keep our outdoor classroom growing and young scientist learning.
Our project benefits 750 students from Pre-K through 5th grade including Access students. All students have access and availability to our garden through science and outdoor classroom time. They have access to planting in the garden during school with their class, observation at recess, and afterschool with our garden /birding club. This year is phase two adding in composting for classes, our rain barrel, drip watering, hydroponics, hatching chicks, and much more thanks to your grant.
Students will also participate in the Cornell University FeederWatch Program.
Our expected outcome is to have our kiddos so excited about life science and outdoor learning they can't wait to plant and eat seed to table. They can't wait to come up with investigations to create new ways to cultivate soil and new watering systems. We will have such creative little scientists we won't be able to contain them. Thank you in advance for helping us with our project.
To complete our project this year we are asking for $1,041 to complete our outdoor classroom. This would buy our supplies to hatch our chicks, buy our composter, grow our hydroponic plants, create our drip watering system, replace our butterfly plants, and add our rain barrel. This will service 750 students from pre-K to fifth grade. Thank you in advance for helping us. =o)
| # | Item Description | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain Barrel | $110.00 |
| 2 | Composter with Crank | $218.00 |
| 3 | Hydroponic Growing System | $131.00 |
| 4 | Drip Water System | $42.00 |
| 5 | soil probe | $15.00 |
| 6 | incubator | $150.00 |
| 7 | flat bird feeders | $50.00 |
| 8 | butterfly plants | $200.00 |
| 9 | bird seed | $100.00 |
| 10 | mulch | $25.00 |
| Total: | $1,041.00 |
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