Remember how your favorite teacher, Miss Packard, encouraged your fascination with tree frogs? Log on to
www.donorschoose.org and help the current crop of Miss Packards inspire the next generation. The website posts requests from teachers in underfunded public schools for donations to cover supplies, such as $56 for scissors and glue in the Bronx or $1,081 for an amphibian habitat in North Carolina. Donors receive thank-you notes and photos from the kids (better than the usual address labels).