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Ms. Holden from Saint Paul, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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STEM Books for Kindergarten and Pre-K!

Help me give my students exciting, educational and relevant STEM read aloud books!

  • $516 goal

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My Project

My students love to learn about new subjects: inventors, scientists, animals, planets and more! STEM read alouds are a great way to introduce new and exciting topics. Through our current read alouds, we have learned about perseverance, teamwork, failure, different ways to create and build, and diversity in the sciences. We have had some great discussions and questions based on the stories we have read in class. Our students deserve to have access to new and relevant science books. I love to foster both a love of science and reading!

Ms. Holden Obama 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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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

60 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
What To Do With a Box • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Bicycle: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Ticktock Banneker's Clock • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Perfect Square • Amazon Business $16.59 1 $16.59
Sophia Sparks (Story Book) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World • Amazon Business $15.18 1 $15.18
11 Experiments That Failed • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Have You Thanked an Inventor Today? • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Amara and the Bats • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Iggy Peck, Architect (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $14.32 1 $14.32
The Curious Garden • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Maxine and the Greatest Garden Ever • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
Burt the Beetle Doesn't Bite! • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Izzy Gizmo • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
What’s That Wombat?: A Funny Rhyming, Read Aloud Picture Book for Kids ages 0-5 (Animals of the World) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Amelia the Mouse: Inventor Extraordinaire • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
What Is Science? • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Weird But True Human Body: 300 Outrageous Facts about Your Awesome Anatomy • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
If I Built a House (If I Built Series) • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Freddy the Frogcaster and the Terrible Tornado • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Weird But True Animals • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Freddy the Frogcaster • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Freddy the Frogcaster and the Big Blizzard • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Weird But True Gross: 300 Slimy, Sticky, and Smelly Facts • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Glasses: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
All About Weather: A First Weather Book for Kids • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Light Bulb: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Oscar and the Cricket: A Book About Moving and Rolling (Start with Science) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69

Materials cost

$401.78

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$437.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.26

Total project goal

$515.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $515.07

4 Donors

-$356.25

Donations toward project cost

-$310.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.94

Matching donations from our partners

-$150.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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