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Ms. Doughty from Farmingdale ME is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the #1 classroom funding site for teachers.

19th Century Time Travelers

Help me give my students an opportunity to step back 150 years in time to 1870s rural Maine!

  • $1,946 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our student group comes from Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale, Maine. The group ranges in grade-level with freshmen, sophomores, and juniors signed up to attend this phenomenal learning experience. Our high energy students are inquisitive and are eager to step away from their technology-filled lives to partake in a “time travel” journey that includes interacting with cows instead of cellphones. As teachers, we are looking forward to this too.

Our students are of diverse backgrounds, some of whom live on farms and are looking forward to being able to use old-timey equipment at the Living History Center, while others in the group have spent most of their lives living in or near Maine’s larger cities.

As a whole, our group of students is enthusiastic and looks forward to digging into this learning experience with open hands, hearts, and minds.

My Project

At the Living History Center, our group of students will join in a 24-hour live-in “time travel” experience to the past in which they will learn about family and farm life in rural Maine in the 1870s. Activities include working the farm, attending to chores, cooking on a wood-fired cookstove, preparing meals as and performing tasks without the aid of modern technology, and experiencing learning in a one-room schoolhouse, 1850's-style. Students will also learn about the important role of the Washburn family in US history, particularly about their role in support of abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln, and preserving American democratic values.

We have framed our journey around the essential questions:

How does where we live impact how we live?

What choices did our ancestors make that affect the way we live today?

What can we learn from rural living traditions of the past?

Ms. Doughty
Grades 9-12
More than a third of students from low‑income households

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53 donors53 donors have given to this project.

This project will reach 9 students.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Component Company Total
Activity Washburn-Norlands Living History Center $1,600.00

Trip cost

$1,600.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

State sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$24.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,654.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$291.88

Total project goal

$1,945.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,945.88

52 Donors

-$1,739.29

Donations toward project cost

-$1,505.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$234.04

match offer

-$175.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$148.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$31.59

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Doughty and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

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