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Experiencing History Hands-On!

My students need subscriptions to Scholastic Scope magazine, various books, basic supplies like markers, and a document camera to help examine primary sources.

  • $936 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

What do you remember about your history classes? Were they engaging, filled with exploration, questioning, and observations? Or, were they simply centered around a bunch of facts you had to learn? My goal is to help my students examine the U.S. in a way that is engaging, exciting, and lasting.

My 8th graders are curious and hopeful students; however, they come to school with many challenges already standing in their way.

It is my goal to provide my students with the very best education possible. That is what every child deserves. However, poverty is a real challenge for many of my students, and they are affected by it every day. About 96.8% are eligible to receive free school lunches, and they are often lacking the resources needed to become successful students. As a teacher who is about to start my second year, I am still building my classroom to be full of rich resources and documents to help my instruction. Teachers are given very few resources to help create the classroom that students need to be successful. I would be letting them down by not providing them with the kind of education they deserve. These resources will allow me to implement many of the activities and experiences I envision for my 8th graders. Please help me provide the very best for my students!

My Project

My students need subscriptions to Scholastic Scope magazine, various books, basic supplies like markers, and a document camera to help examine primary sources. The largest request is a document camera. All of these resources, together, help to create my vision of a classroom that makes history come alive! I like to start the year off with my students with this quote by James Baldwin, which speaks to what can happen when students learn history hands-on: "I would teach him [or her!] that the press he reads is not as free as it says it is---and that he can do something about that, too. I would try to make him know that just as American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it, so is the world larger, more daring, more beautiful, and more terrible, but principally larger---and that it belongs to him." This quote speaks to the importance of exposure to primary sources in a way that allows students to question and take control of their own learning in the classroom.

This project will help me welcome my students at the beginning of the year with essential resources to help them learn through discovery.

My goal is to help my students understand our country as well as their place in it. The document camera (and the activities that I am so excited to implement) are so important for the classroom culture that I hope to build, one of exploration, engagement, and agency. Thank you for your consideration and support!

Mr. Mintz Intermediate School 219 New Venture Grades 6-8

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Bronx, NY View local requests

Nearly all 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

125 students impacted 14donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Holocaust • AKJ Books $26.60 1 $26.60
M. Scholastic Scope , Grades 6-8 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $8.75 12 $105.00
Educational Impressions - Us History Document-based Activities • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $15.95 1 $15.95
Esselte Corporation - School Grade Twin Pocket Folders 100 Per Box • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $31.00 1 $31.00
CAMERA PORTABLE GOOSE NECK PC AND MAC • School Specialty Inc. $351.49 1 $351.49
PAPER CHART 24X36 1IN RLD SW PACK/100 SHEETS • School Specialty Inc. $10.44 3 $31.32
MARKER DRY ERASE EXPO ORIGINAL ASST BOLD PACK OF 16 • School Specialty Inc. $23.74 2 $47.48
Eyes on the Prize: America''s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 (Season 1) DVD • AKJ Books $51.79 1 $51.79
World War II • AKJ Books $35.11 1 $35.11

Materials cost

$695.74

Vendor shipping charges

 $58.69

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$794.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$140.27

Total project goal

$935.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $935.14

11 Donors

-$765.14

Donations toward project cost

-$650.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.77

match offer

-$170.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$144.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.50

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