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Ms. Livingstone from Durham, NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Color Splash Markers

My students need 20 packs of dry-erase markers to use with personal marker boards.

  • $368 goal

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My Students

We use our personal marker boards every day for organizing ideas, working out problems, playing games, and writing sentences. Our marker boards are inexpensive, low-tech classroom resources. So, what's the problem? We need dry-erase markers to use with them!

My urban middle school students, many of them English Language Learners, begin the year reading years below grade level.

My students are hard-working and cooperative. We read and write every day. In our multi-grade Language Arts class, we work hard on basic literacy skills to prepare for high school success.

My Project

Our personal marker boards are created from sheets of building material cut into 1-foot squares by a local building supply store. We use them every day. When we are working with a new language structure, students create original sentences on the boards and hold them up to share. When we are playing games, students in pairs and groups record their answers on the boards. We use the boards to organize ideas for writing essays and for generating solutions to problems. Our marker boards help us conserve paper. With a quick swish of a dry cloth, the boards are ready to reuse again and again. They are a fantastic classroom resource, but they don't work without dry-erase markers. Unfortunately, our district is running out of money and our future marker supply is now uncertain.

These little marker boards make learning fun!

My students enjoy trying to outdo their classmates by crafting the most entertaining sentences and sharing them with the class. There is nothing fancy or high-tech about our homemade marker boards; they simply work for my students. A donation towards dry-erase markers will allow us to continue to use them even when all the district supply money has dried up.

Ms. Livingstone
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers Chisel Tip, Black • Quill $13.04 7 $91.28
Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers Chisel Tip, Blue • Quill $13.04 7 $91.28
Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers Chisel Tip, 12-Color Set • Quill $11.99 2 $23.98
Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers Fine Tip, 8-Color Set • Quill $8.99 2 $17.98
Expo Low-Odor Dry-Erase Markers Chisel Tip, Red • Quill $13.49 2 $26.98

Materials cost

$251.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.52

Sales tax

 $19.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$312.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.13

Total project goal

$367.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $367.54

11 Donors

-$182.96

Donations toward project cost

-$156.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.76

match offer

-$183.78

Match offer toward project cost

-$156.21

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.57

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.80

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 $0.00

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