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Ms. Nadia from Washington, DC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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5th Graders Learning About Innovation and Inventions

Help me give my students books to learn more about famous Black inventors.

  • $166 goal

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My Project

My fifth-grade students will be starting a new literacy unit at the end of February on innovation and inventors. During the study, students will be learning about inventions like the toilet and innovators like the Wright brothers.

With so many inventors in our history, I want my classroom library to have a foundation of books centered around Black inventors.

My students this school year are passionate about their Black identities. We have connected Black history throughout our literacy units as we learned about Westward Expansion, the Civil War, and space exploration. I look forward to the questions and wonderings my students will have as we explore this new unit together.

Ms. Nadia Plummer Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight (Volume 7) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $18.41 1 $18.41
Sweet Dreams, Sarah • Amazon Business $16.30 1 $16.30
Have You Thanked an Inventor Today? • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Making Inventions: Women Who Led the Way (Super SHEroes of Science): Women Who Led the Way (Super SHEroes of Science) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Lonnie Johnson: Nasa Scientist and Inventor of the Super Soaker (Smithsonian Little Explorer: Little Inventor) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Lewis Latimer: The Man Behind a Better Light Bulb (Smithsonian Little Explorer) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Madam C.J. Walker: The Woman Behind Hair Care Products for African Americans (Little Inventor) (Smithsonian Little Explorer) • Amazon Business $6.67 1 $6.67
Garrett Morgan (Historically) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$103.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $6.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$140.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.87

Total project goal

$165.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $165.81

1 Donor

-$165.81

Donations toward project cost

-$140.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.87

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