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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books That Build in 2021 and Beyond

Help me give my students STEM books to challenge my students and grow as future STEM leaders!

  • $830 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

We seriously have some of the best students in our small-town elementary school.

My students are always ready to try something new and because of that, I want to be a better teacher everyday.

I want to grow with them!

Our school includes over sixty percent free or reduced-price lunch recipients. Together our community, parents, and staff work to get us everything we need. I am so grateful to have wonderful people like you also partnering with us to help get our students everything they so deserve.

Although this year may look a little different whether in person, online, or a mix of both, I know we'll build our classroom community and become the family we always are.

Next year I will be teaching four sections of STEM classes and many of these books will inspire students at four different grade levels.

My Project

Books are such an important part of every classroom. Books inspire. They bring joy. Books teach and continue to excite our learning.

Books take children on adventures and to places they never imagined going.

I continue to make a list of diverse books, including STEM books, recommended by teachers I am motivated by, my digital professional learning community. This project contains a lot of those amazing books!

These books will add many books about different cultures, careers, and many important people. It will also add many books about believing in yourself and inspire new ideas in STEM.

I want my students to be exposed to a variety of books. Reading, for fun, is the most important thing a child can learn at school. I want to be sure we have many different types of books available. Thank you for your support of reading in my classroom.

Plus, next year I am moving to a new STEM position and I want to have a wide variety of books for my middle school students to read.

Mrs. Melissa Smith Spooner Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) • Amazon Business $50.33 1 $50.33
Wildlife of the World • Amazon Business $37.61 1 $37.61
Harry Potter: Exploring Diagon Alley (From the Films of Harry Potter) • Amazon Business $25.99 1 $25.99
The Way Things Work Now • Amazon Business $22.50 1 $22.50
Ocean!: Our Watery World as You've Never Seen it Before (Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
Twinderella, A Fractioned Fairy Tale • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers • Amazon Business $17.94 1 $17.94
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home (Bloomsbury Sigma) • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
Knowledge Encyclopedia (Updated and Enlarged Edition): The World as You've Never Seen It Before (Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $16.46 1 $16.46
How to Code a Rollercoaster • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Amazing Visual Math • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Eye to Eye: How Animals See The World • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Careers: The Graphic Guide to Planning Your Future • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
National Geographic Kids Everything Robotics: All the Photos, Facts, and Fun to Make You Race for Robots • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
101 STEM JOKES • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
To the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
How to Code a Sandcastle • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
See You in the Cosmos • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader's Edition • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
The Amazing Work of Scientists with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science and Engineering in Action) • Amazon Business $8.10 1 $8.10
A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $8.10 1 $8.10
The Illuminating World of Light with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $8.10 1 $8.10
The Powerful World of Energy with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $8.10 1 $8.10
The Incredible Work of Engineers with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science and Engineering in Action) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Attractive Story of Magnetism with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Investigating the Scientific Method with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Shocking World of Electricity with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sir Cumference and the Fracton Faire • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom Super Scientist: 4D An Augmented Reading Science Experience (Graphic Science 4D) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
National Geographic Kids Why?: Over 1,111 Answers to Everything • Amazon Business $7.45 1 $7.45
The Story of Amelia Earhart: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Jim Henson: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Albert Einstein: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Frida Kahlo: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Abraham Lincoln: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Anne Frank: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Marie Curie: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Harriet Tubman: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Benjamin Franklin: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Neil Armstrong: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Rock Star #1 (Jada Jones) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Malala Yousafzai: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Fred Rogers: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Thomas Jefferson: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of the Wright Brothers: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of John Lewis: A Biography Book for Young Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Gandhi: A Biography Book for New Readers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Dancing Queen #4 (Jada Jones) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Simone Biles: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of George Washington: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Sleepover Scientist #3 (Jada Jones) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Class Act #2 (Jada Jones) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Helen Keller: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Jane Goodall: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, 2) • Amazon Business $6.76 1 $6.76
Difficult Riddles For Smart Kids: 300 Difficult Riddles And Brain Teasers Families Will Love • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48

Materials cost

$665.17

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$705.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.44

Total project goal

$829.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $829.59

17 Donors

-$413.74

Donations toward project cost

-$353.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.26

match offer

-$413.73

Match offer toward project cost

-$351.67

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.12

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