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Seventh Grade Middle Ages Festival

My students need 10 art supplies for their creation of their manors, shields, and table decorations for their Middle Ages unit and all-day festival (for 250 students.)

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My Students

What is the best way help students understand a time period of history? The answer is to give them a chance to role play. The Middle Ages Unit gives them a chance to showcase their talents: art, music, acting, dance. Students assume the roles of royalty, knights, servants, and entertainers.

My classes consist of a total of 125 middle school students that are one of two interdisciplinary teams.

Their abilities are include all levels with talented and gifted, resource, and behavior disabilities mainstreamed. The students come from various economic backgrounds.

My Project

The materials I have requested are for the Middle Ages Unit for both teams, impacting 250 students. This interdisciplinary unit will consist of character research and making of shields in language arts, construction of catapults in science, performance of Medieval skits in reading, and research of Medieval society with the selection of roles in social studies (my class). The culmination of this unit is a day-long festival where students showcase their modern-day talents in a Medieval setting and conclude with a catapult contest.

The donations will allow students on both interdisciplinary teams to create their manors and shields, construct their catapults, decorate the banquet hall, and create props for their Medieval skits.

This type of event is one that students will remember for years to come.

Mrs. Shanstrom Excelsior Middle School Grades 6-8

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Marion, IA View local requests 250 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' PURPLE • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $79.60 1 $79.60
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' SCARLET • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $76.75 1 $76.75
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' BLACK • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $61.65 1 $61.65
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' AUTUMN GOLD • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $80.74 1 $80.74
CONST PPR 12X18 WHITE TRURAY 50 PER PACK • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $3.51 4 $14.04
CONST PPR 12X18 TAN TRURAY 50 PER PACK • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $3.51 2 $7.02
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' LT GRN • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $78.84 1 $78.84
ART KRAFT RL 36X1000' BRITE BLUE • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $79.22 1 $79.22
GLUESTICK ELMER'S CLEAR .24OZ 30-PK • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $12.33 1 $12.33
GLUE STICK EXTRA STRENGTH .88 OZ PK 12 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $14.24 1 $14.24

Materials cost

$504.43

Vendor shipping charges

 $50.44

Sales tax

 $34.55

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$631.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$111.53

Total project goal

$743.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $743.52

2 Donors

-$743.52

Donations toward project cost

-$631.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$111.53

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