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Mrs. Schmidt from Gardena, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Visualize The World We Study

My students need some books about mapping, state symbols and holidays, 25 class subscriptions to Time For Kids and DVDs about important people to help them learn social studies.

  • $885 goal

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Mrs. Schmidt has another project! Donate to New Books for New Readers! to help her classroom.

$378 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

Do you remember what it was like to read a social studies text book? It can be hard to grasp events and people's lives from so long ago without being able to relate to them. Help bring social studies to life with these materials that will help them understand a time long ago.

My students are excited about school they come to school nearly everyday, even when they are sick, with an open mind and the desire to learn something new each day.

Our school is in an area with very little means, we have a wonderful new principal who is very supportive but she can not give us money to buy extras because there just is not any money to give. Our limited resources leave us with little to bring our textbooks to life.

My Project

My students need some books about mapping, state symbols and holidays, a subscription to Time For Kids and DVDs about important people to help them learn social studies. These resources will open my student's imaginations to be able to time travel to an era from the past and relive what it would have been like to live and be the people we study. I can remember a college professor I had who made social studies real for me threw photos, movie clips and Rellia of those times we were studying. I would love to be able to give my students the chance to really understand the lives and times we are studying.

This donation would bring these bright eyed, curious little people into a world that is hard to understand and give them an understand of why and how life became as it is today!

The students will fall in love with the past and look forward to the future with this project.

Mrs. Schmidt 153rd Street Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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 three‑quarters 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

25 students impacted 11donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
RA527 - Celebrating Holidays Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
TIME For Kids - Grades K-1 • Time for Kids $3.98 25 $99.50
HH723 - Holidays & Festivals Resource Box - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE222 - Landforms & Mapping Resource Box - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE221 - United States Resource Box - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE422 - Landforms & Mapping Literature Library - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $36.50 1 $36.50
HH523 - Holidays & Festivals Literature Library - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $35.50 1 $35.50
EE421 - United States Literature Library - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.50 1 $27.50
Alexander Graham Bell Interactive DVD • Amazon $26.95 1 $26.95
Benjamin Franklin Interactive DVD • Amazon $26.95 1 $26.95
The Wright Brothers Interactive DVD • Amazon $26.95 1 $26.95
Christopher Columbus Interactive DVD • Amazon $26.95 1 $26.95
George Washington DVD • Amazon $12.95 1 $12.95
Abraham Lincoln - Inspiring Heroes DVD • Amazon $11.46 1 $11.46
Harriet Tubman - Inspiring Animated Heroes • Amazon $11.46 1 $11.46

Materials cost

$652.14

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $59.67

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$751.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$132.63

Total project goal

$884.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $884.22

8 Donors

-$884.22

Donations toward project cost

-$751.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$132.63

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