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Ms. Kohnert from Glendale AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Life As We Knew It - Integrating Science and Literature

My students need 40 copies of young adult novels, Life As We Knew It, to support integrating science and literature.

  • $360 goal

This project expired on October 30, 2011.

This project expired on October 30, 2011.

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My Students

Reading is an important skill in all aspects of life. I am trying to teach my students a love of reading while integrating science into our literacy curriculum. One of many challenges my students face is access to high interest reading materials that promote cross-curriculum ideas.

My students come from a high need community where food and shelter are priorities at home, not books.

I work hard to provide students access to literature. My students are eager to learn, but many of the texts we have are not engaging enough, current enough, nor rigorous enough to prepare my students for ideas needed in high-school or college. We need access to more exciting and current literature that allows us to integrate science standards while meeting reading standards.

My Project

My students need 40 copies of young adult novels, Life As We Knew It, to support integrating science and literature. In Seventh Grade students learn about space, eclipses, and tides as part of their science standards. I would like to provide them an exciting novel in reading that integrates these ideas as a major part of the plot. I feel this will provide students with an understanding of how information from science can be used to enhance literature. This novel will allow us an excellent opportunity to reinforce science in our reading class.

Your support will help me provide my students with access to an exciting novel.

The book illustrates to students how understanding science is used in other areas of life. This novel provides an excellent opportunity for my students to build literacy for high school while reinforcing science standards.

Ms. Kohnert
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Life As We Knew It • AKJ Books $6.23 40 $249.20

Materials cost

$249.20

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 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$305.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.96

Total project goal

$359.72

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