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Ms. W. from NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading about Evolution is COLORful

My students need 5 Science coloring books, colored pencils, pencil pouches and pencil sharpeners.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. W.'s classroom raised $821

This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember what it is like to struggle with reading? Actually, I don't. My mother is an English teacher, and I slid easily into the text world. I DON'T remember what it is like to not recognize a word when I see it. I don't remember reading whole paragraphs, and not comprehending.

However, this is the case with many of my students.

Only 1/6th of my 133 9th graders read on grade level. As their Environmental Science teacher, I get to avoid some of the frustration of reading by doing experiments and other hands on activities. But this lack of literacy skill comes back to haunt the students when it is time to write up their labs and explain their thinking. To combat this, our 9th grade team decided to focus our year on building literacy. All of the core teachers are embedding literacy strategies into their curriculum. Specifically, the Global History teacher and I are practicing active reading and annotating; we are reading and summarizing; we are reading and questioning... In our planning, we've also re-written many of our assignments to have different reading levels of the same content. Though this is a lot of extra work it seems to be making a huge difference in lowering the frustration and raising the confidence in our students!

My Project

Now, we'd like to take this one step farther! For our next project, we would like to add a COLORING component to their reading activities. The HUMAN EVOLUTION COLORING BOOK is a book of 200+ 1-page articles accompanied by a page where students color matching vocabulary words and images. It may sound silly--but I used the HUMAN ANATOMY COLORING BOOK when I was in college--and it was extremely useful in helping to paint a picture in my head of the hundreds of vocabulary words that make up your body! Also, this requested project is a little bit different, because I would like to GIVE each child 1 pencil pouch with a pencil sharpener and 10 colored pencils--for KEEPS! That way they can work on this project at home--and also use the colored pencils for other classes. I've added THE GEOGRAPHY COLORING BOOK to my cart, and I will share this with the Global teacher--she has said they are struggling with understanding how geographic features affect the development of history.

This project is important because it will allow struggling readers another access point into reading!

We are an Arts & Media school, so by sneaking into literacy the back way (coloring), through something they are interested in--we may be able to start to close the gap! Also, if I were a student and people cared enough about me to donate school supplies, I would feel pretty special! Thanks for your consideration! Help support my amazing students!

Ms. W. Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters 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

133 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
POCKET PENCIL SHARPENER 1'' LONG SILVER • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $1.23 150 $184.50
ELECTRIC PENCIL SHARPENER 4''X8 1/2''X6'' TRANSLUCENT BLUE • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $37.61 1 $37.61
PENCIL CRAYOLA COLORED MULTICULTURAL SET OF 8 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $1.70 5 $8.50
PENCIL CRAYOLA COLORED FULL SIZE SET OF 50 • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $8.32 20 $166.40
POUCH PENCIL SCHOOL SMART • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $0.99 140 $138.60
The Anatomy Coloring Book Wynn Kapit, Lawrence M. Elson • AKJ BOOKS $14.90 1 $14.90
Human Anatomy Coloring Book Margaret Matt, Joe Ziemian • AKJ BOOKS $3.56 1 $3.56
Geography Coloring Book Wynn Kapit • AKJ BOOKS $17.17 1 $17.17
Biology Coloring Book Robert D. Griffin, Lawrence M. Elson • AKJ BOOKS $13.82 1 $13.82
Microbiology Coloring Book I. Edward Alcamo, Alcamo, With Edward I. Alcamo • AKJ BOOKS $14.61 1 $14.61

Materials cost

$599.67

Vendor shipping charges

 $53.56

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$697.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$123.04

Total project goal

$820.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $820.27

3 Donors

-$802.62

Donations toward project cost

-$697.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$105.39

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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