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Ms. Reeves from Chicago, IL is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Illinois History Field Trip

My students need transportation to Starved Rock State Park.

  • $579 goal

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My Students

Inner city students have few experiences in their neighborhoods, yet seldom leave the couple of blocks where they live. To most of our children this is what the whole world is like.

Our school is in a low income neighborhood in a large urban area in Illinois.

We have 98% free breakfast and lunch. This is a math and science intensive public school, but have found that students have few experiences to draw on when we discuss ecosystems, landforms, historical cultures, and agriculture. They have never seen an eagle soar, watched a barge move down a river, marveled at a field of corn, or stood on top of a sandstone cliff.

My Project

We want our students to see that there is more to our state than the big city. Our visit to the Historical Society presents information about community life on the prairie at the turn of the century. Students learn in a one room school house, watch a blacksmith work and participate in a demonstration of tools used on a farm. The museum itself provides information on how our state grew and prospered through its communities. The story of Starved Rock includes information on Native American communities, and how their beliefs and problems were not that different from those that still exist today in all communities. The Waterway Museum provides information on how our state is connected to the world through the barges traveling on the Illinois River to and from the Mississippi. While this learning may be possible from books, a "seeing for yourself" field trip embeds the information. This is a trip these students will never take for themselves.

Agriculture is an important part of our state's economy, but to city children "farm" does not have much meaning.

Driving past acres of corn and soybeans, as far as the eye can see, gives a demonstration of that fact. The waterway museum provides exhibits that demonstrate the history of water transportation to farmers and how they provide sustenance to the world. This field trip will provide such learning as these children never experienced. They will be awed by our great state's bounty and beauty

Ms. Reeves Claremont Academy 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.

Equity Focus

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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Chicago, IL 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

35 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Component Company Total
Transportation O'Neal Bus Company $450.00

Trip cost

$450.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$491.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.78

Total project goal

$578.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$578.53

1 Donor

-$578.53

Donations toward project cost

-$491.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.78

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$0.00

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