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Ms. Sicherman from New York, NY is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Kids Experience Immigration and Labor History at the Tenement Museum

My students need help covering the fees for a guided tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and a session of their program, Sweatshop Workers.

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My Students

My incoming fourth grade students, whom I also taught as third graders, attend a small elementary school in New York City. They are an extremely diverse group, in terms of ethnic background, socio-economic status, native language, and special education needs.

I am lucky to be working again with this group of enthusiastic, creative, lively, hard-working, and inspiring kids!

I am also lucky to be working at a school that deeply values hands-on learning and the amazing, unique field trips that are available to us as New Yorkers.

My Project

This project will cover the costs so I can take my fourth graders on an unforgettable field trip to New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This unique site is a real tenement building, with apartments restored to show how tenants lived at different points in 19th and 20th-century history.

Showcasing the lives of immigrants from places like Ireland, Germany, and Turkey, the building provides an authentic and memorable glimpse of the struggles and joys of new Americans at a pivotal point in immigration history.

My students will also get to participate in a powerful program called Sweatshop Workers. In this activity, students learn about the work that many turn-of-the-century families did at home to make a living. They will actually spend some time doing similar work in order to get a taste of what it might be like to spend hours every day making artificial flowers or sewing clothing, as many tenement-dwellers did.

In past visits, students have found this a highly memorable experience that has supported our curriculum in ways that only a field trip can.

Ms. Sicherman Children's Workshop School Grades 3-5

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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

Where your donation goes
Component Company Total
Activity Tenement Museum $380.00

Trip cost

$380.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$415.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.36

Total project goal

$489.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $489.06

7 Donors

-$453.20

Donations toward project cost

-$415.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.86

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 $0.00

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