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Sustainable Materials - A Look to the Future

My students need a laminating machine, various pouches, a bookbinding machine, and sheets for book binding.

  • $430 goal

This project expired on June 27, 2010.

This project expired on June 27, 2010.

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Mrs. Batista Robert J Fite Elementary School
Sacramento, CA Grades 3-5

I teach 5th grade in a high poverty community within Massachusetts. A majority of the students at my school are identified as low-income and receive free or reduced lunch.

Kids will be kids and kid's hands aren't often the cleanest places. This year I've made many math game cards and most often at the end of the unit, the cards have a slight film of brown dirt and some don't have the ink on them anymore.

I'm a big fan of sustainable resources and reusing materials that I make. The kids like the durable feel of the laminated cards too. We need to have a small laminator and bookbinder in our classroom so I can laminate and bind game cards, papers, and number puzzles. This project will help my students by not having to worry about spilling water around the paper or leaving marks on it.

Your help will ensure that my students will be able to reuse these resources throughout the year without me having to cut all the cards pieces out over and over again. This project will also help students that I teach in the future because I can reuse these game cards. Looking ahead to the future, I'd like to more sustainable and reuse resources as much as possible.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

20 students impacted
Mrs. Batista Robert J Fite Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Sacramento, CA View local requests

More than half of 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

20 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
CV236 - Book Cover Sheets for Bookbinding • Lakeshore Learning $12.95 1 $12.95
CV213BK - 1/4" Plastic Binding - Black • Lakeshore Learning $6.95 1 $6.95
CV215 - Heavy-Duty Bookbinding Machine • Lakeshore Learning $99.00 1 $99.00
XC444 - 11 1/2" x 17 1/2" Laminating Pouches • Lakeshore Learning $39.95 1 $39.95
XC443 - 9" x 11 1/2" Laminating Pouches • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
XC441 - Classroom Laminating Machine & Pouches • Lakeshore Learning $129.00 1 $129.00

Materials cost

$307.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.78

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$352.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.31

Total project goal

$429.51

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