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Mr. Honson from Chicago, IL is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Through Art

Help me give my students art supplies for a curriculum that improves evidential reasoning and critical thinking.

  • $314 goal

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My Project

In my classroom, I use art to teach visual literacy, thinking, and communication skills. How do I do that? Using a facilitation method called Visual Thinking Strategies, I challenge students to look at art and discuss what's going on in a picture, provide evidence to support their ideas, and relate what they see to their everyday lives.

"Art is the essential first discussion topic because it enables students to use existing visual and cognitive skills to develop confidence and experience, learning to use what they already know to figure out what they don't; they are then prepared to explore other complex subject matter alone and with peers."

But how do I make sure that my less engaged, shy, or non-English speaking students are able to participate? By encouraging students to put pencil to paper to share their ideas. I'm asking for your support to provide my first-grade students with sketchbooks and charcoal/graphite supplies to use throughout the upcoming school year. Their sketches, inspired by the artists we're studying, will complement the rich conversations we're having in the classroom.

Mr. Honson
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
GIFTEXPRESS Bound Spiral Premium Sketch Book Sketch Pads Set, 4 pads x30-Sheets, 8.5" X 11" Side Wire Bound, white 120 Paper Sheets for Pencil Ink Pastel (4) • Amazon Business $12.49 7 $87.43
General's Kimberly Graphite Sticks - Class Pack of 144 • Blick Art Materials $79.24 1 $79.24
Blick Studio Vine Charcoal - Canister of 144 • Blick Art Materials $66.54 1 $66.54

Materials cost

$233.21

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$266.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.07

Total project goal

$313.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $313.78

7 Donors

-$299.07

Donations toward project cost

-$266.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.71

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