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Ms. Gratz from Charlotte, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Translate Science To Success

My students need dictionaries for many languages, subscriptions to Weekly Reader, and books like "Nervous System" and "The Heart: Our Circulatory System" that promote the use of scientific vocabulary to enhance their English.

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Can you imagine sitting in a classroom in a foreign country and learning Science at the same time? My English as a Second Language students do so on a daily basis and aspire to become doctors, meteorologists, and scientists. With these resources in our class there is no doubt that they will excel!

I teach 7th grade Science to 85+ students at a Title I FOCUS School in North Carolina.

Each student I teach is considered to be working towards English proficiency and my classroom consists of students that speak over 13 different languages. Despite the language barrier, my students are creative and investigative critical thinkers that dream big. A large majority of my students are economically disadvantaged and would highly benefit from dictionaries, books, and relevant magazines that help build vocabulary skills. Although my students face a variety of obstacles at home, they still come to school with a positive attitude and an urgency to learn. Not only do they have to learn Science, but they must continue to build their English on a daily basis.

My Project

For some English speakers, scientific vocabulary may seem daunting at times, however, for my students, scientific vocabulary seems daunting the majority of the time. Not only do my students have to learn Science content, but they also must learn English at the same time. With resources such as dictionaries, books like "Nervous System" and "The Heart: Our Circulatory System", and a subscription to Weekly Reader magazine in our classroom, the language barrier will become a thing of the past. The dictionaries will be used to help translate new words, while Current Science and Health subscriptions from Weekly Reader will provide relevant vocabulary and language reinforcement. In addition, the books will engage them and encourage them to believe that reading in English is fun! By infusing literacy into our classroom, each of my students will be able to not only learn Science content, but they will also be able to gain confidence in their use of English. Their confidence will then translate to success in Science!

My students deserve to have the resources that will help them excel in the classroom and reach their goals.

By having these resources in my class, my students will be able to learn English through the Sciences. With these dictionaries, magazines, and books my students will have the tools they need to translate Science into success.

Ms. Gratz Eastway Middle School Grades 6-8

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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

90 students impacted 13donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Larousse Student Dictionary: Spanish-English English-Spanish Editors of Larousse (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $7.48 2 $14.96
Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Arabic Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro • Barnes and Noble $16.88 1 $16.88
Oxford-Duden Pictorial Spanish and English Dictionary Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford • Barnes and Noble $22.32 1 $22.32
Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Vietnamese Jayme Adelson-Goldstein (Editor), Norma Shapiro (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $15.27 1 $15.27
NTC's Vietnamese-English Dictionary Dinh-hoa Nguyen, Inh Hoa Nguyyen, Nguyen Dinh-Hoa (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $17.82 1 $17.82
Hindi-English DK Publishing, Saloni Talwar (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $8.85 1 $8.85
Urdu-English/English-Urdu Dictionary and Phrasebook Nicholas Awde, Asmatullah Sarwan (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.32 1 $11.32
Hindi-English/English-Hindi Concise Dictionary Todd Scudiere • Barnes and Noble $12.14 1 $12.14
Spanish-English Dictionary: Diccionario Espa ol-Ingl s Staff of Barron's, Contribution by Jeremy Berg, Contribution by Lucia Borrero • Barnes and Noble $8.87 1 $8.87
Forces of Nature, Tornadoes: A Vocabulary Skills Text Linda Diane Wells • Barnes and Noble $14.48 1 $14.48
Current Health 2 (For Orders of 2 9 Subscriptions) • Weekly Reader $14.35 2 $28.70
Current Science (For Orders of 2 9 Subscriptions) • Weekly Reader $14.21 2 $28.42
The Heart: Our Circulatory System Seymour Simon • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
The Visual Dictionary of the Human Body (Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries Series) DK Publishing, Deni Bown, Bucaille • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Brain: Our Nervous System Seymour Simon • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Alive: The Living, Breathing Human Body Book DK Publishing, Jilly MacLeod (Editor), Philip Fitzgerald (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $24.35 1 $24.35
Open Me Up DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $20.29 1 $20.29
Digestive System Christine Taylor-Butler • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93
Respiratory System Christine Taylor-Butler • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93
Nervous System Christine Taylor-Butler • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93

Materials cost

$287.38

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.71

Sales tax

 $22.42

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$354.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.62

Total project goal

$417.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $417.44

8 Donors

-$205.07

Donations toward project cost

-$176.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.51

match offer

-$209.72

Match offer toward project cost

-$178.26

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.46

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

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