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Mrs. Woodburn from Nashville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Serious Readers Need Social Studies Texts!

My students need non-fiction texts related to our Social Studies curriculum on Early America to develop crucial background for their hands-on projects.

  • $202 goal

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My Students

Imagine trying to learn about Native Americans without having ever met one. Talking about settling in one of the 13 colonies without having every seen the ocean or a farm. My students are lucky that our school devotes a solid amount of time to Social Studies but need more exposure to relevant info.

Many of the students in my class have never been outside of Tennessee -- some have never been outside of Nashville.

As a first-year teacher, I strove to develop my classroom library as many of them do not have access to leveled books that interest them. Looking over the books I collected, I realized I had very few informational texts. As much as I love engaging in conversation about history with them, there's nothing like having them engage with the materials at their own pace in their own time.

My Project

One of the things I love about my school is that we're working on having our assessments be based on hands-on learning experiences and projects. Students will try to capture what it would have been like to live during these periods through various representations. These books are directly related to our Social Studies curriculum. Many of them focus on painting a picture of a daily experience through the life of different people. These books will take the students from the Native peoples of the United States to the explorers they met to the country that they created in the same space.

Our school is piloting this hands-on curriculum as we become a magnet school to try and diversify the students population.

By creating a richer academic experience this year, we will help to spread the word that despite negative stereotypes of the student population, we are smart and dedicated scholars!

Mrs. Woodburn Robert Churchwell Museum Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Nashville, TN View local requests

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 10donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Columbus: The Story of Our Nation from Coast to Coast, from • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
America in the Time of Lewis and Clark • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Pocahontas: The Story of Our Nation from Coast to Coast, fro • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Children of Native America Today Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene • AKJ Books $15.56 1 $15.56
Colonial Life - History • AKJ Books $6.20 1 $6.20
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500- • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure Me • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
If You Grew Up With George Washington Gross, Ruth Belov Gros • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America Anne Kamma, P • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Cherokee Peter Roop, Connie Roop, Kevin Smith (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History J • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
The Boston Tea Party • AKJ Books $4.64 1 $4.64
The Revolutionary War • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure Allison • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
What''s The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Who''s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
You Wouldn''t Want to Be a Viking Explorer!: Voyages You''d Ra • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76
You Wouldn''t Want to Be an American Colonist!: A Settlement • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76
You Wouldn''t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus!: Unchar • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76

Materials cost

$134.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$171.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.26

Total project goal

$201.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $201.76

6 Donors

-$201.76

Donations toward project cost

-$171.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.26

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