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Connecting Current Events to the Classroom!

My students need these Junior Scholastic magazines to use in class for current events discussion as well as a bi-weekly classroom debate around an important topic.

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My Students

I am a social studies teacher in Queens, NY. My students love talking about current events and they are always trying to connect what we learn in class to the world around them.

World history can be difficult at times for students because they have a hard time relating to the material.

They do not see how it relates to their lives today. I am always trying to tie in current world issues with the regions that we study which helps to bring the history alive. My school is also located in one of the most ethnically diverse urban areas in the world. As a result, students come from all over. This makes classroom discussions very lively and spirited. Some of the best days we have in class are when students share about where they are from, and make connections between the material and their home countries.

My Project

We will use these magazines to help bridge the gap between the ancient world and the modern world. Junior Scholastic is a current events news magazine that features engaging nonfiction about national and international news, U.S. and world history, debates, geography, and more. These magazines will be used in class to learn about what is happening in the part of the world today that we are studying the history of in class.

Students will also learn about both sides of an issue and then form an opinion using evidence from the text.

Each issue has a debate topic that students will read about, research more in depth and then present and defend an argument in front of the class. These are useful skills to learn.

And lastly, the issues will be available to students to read during independent reading time as another non-fiction source to choose from.

With this project, students will be able to engage in conversations around current events and will help students learn about the world around them. Overall the project will help create global minded citizens.

Mr. Peters Intermediate School 141 the Steinway Grades 6-8

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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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Junior Scholastic, Grades 6 - 8 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 16 Issues / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grades 6–8 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $8.49 15 $127.35

Materials cost

$127.35

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.74

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$172.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.35

Total project goal

$202.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $202.35

3 Donors

-$187.00

Donations toward project cost

-$172.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$15.35

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 $0.00

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