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The Age of Exploration

Help me give my students access to books on the Age of Exploration for reading groups and instruction.

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In order to help my students develop wonder in their lives and an interest in school, books on the Age of Exploration would help to make our reading block a time of great discussion, inquiry and learning while focusing on reading skills based on the state standards. Our basal reading book and standards-based text lessons do not lead to natural wonder and curiosity but stifle the interests of my students.

I would like to make our reading lessons engaging while incorporating history into our school day.

Our schedule does not give us much time to cover history and without an anchor to the past, students are not learning about the history of Western Civilization. Having access to high interest books based on time periods from the past would help my students to learn about the past while learning reading skills at the same time. It is my desire to help my students learn about Western Civilization and to develop natural wonder and curiosity in what they are learning in class. These books would help me to teach my students about the Age of Exploration in an engaging way and get them excited about what they are learning in class.

Mrs. DeLong Peralta Trail Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan • Amazon Business $9.99 12 $119.88
What Was the Age of Exploration? • Amazon Business $7.19 12 $86.28
European Explorers for Kids (History for Kids - Traditional, Story-Based Format) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Explorers Who Got Lost • Amazon Business $15.35 1 $15.35
The Renaissance Explorers: With History Projects for Kids • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
National Geographic Timelines - World Made New, The - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Explore With Francisco Vazquez De Coronado (Travel With the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore with Henry Hudson (Travel with the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore with Jacques Cartier (Travel with the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore With Ponce De Leon (Travel With the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore with John Cabot (Travel with the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore with Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Travel with the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore With Vasco Nunez De Balboa (Travel With the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Explore With Ferdinand Magellan (Travel With the Great Explorers) • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
Discovery of the Americas, The (American Story) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Travel With the Great Explorers - Explore with Hernando de Soto - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? • Amazon Business $6.85 1 $6.85

Materials cost

$387.95

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Sales tax

 $27.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$451.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.68

Total project goal

$531.19

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 $531.19

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