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Ms. Zepeda from Los Angeles, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Art Is Essential To Learning

Help me give my students Construction Paper to use for various art and craft activities.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Zepeda's classroom raised $187

This project is fully funded

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My Project

Our classroom is a special needs class and in order to better reach our students we use various art and media in our lessons. This helps our students by allowing their learning to become more hands on. Hands on learning is essential for the students in our classroom because it helps our students who struggle with fine motor skills. Construction Paper is used for almost all our projects in the classroom.

Construction Paper is essential to our classroom as we frequently use it for various lessons and crafts that help our students better visualize and understand their lessons.

For many of our students having lessons taught to them in various forms of media is much more impactful and further reaching than a traditional take on lessons. Our students all learn at different paces and in different ways however art is one way they can all learn together at the same pace.

Ms. Zepeda Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School Grades 9-12

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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

23 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Crayola Construction Paper, 240 Count, Bulk School Supplies For Kids, 2-Pack School Paper • Amazon Business $16.59 4 $66.36
Prang (Formerly SunWorks) Construction Paper, 10 Assorted Colors, 12" x 18", 100 Sheets • Amazon Business $12.37 4 $49.48

Materials cost

$115.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $10.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$158.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.91

Total project goal

$186.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $186.09

1 Donor

-$93.03

Donations toward project cost

-$79.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.95

match offer

-$93.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$79.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.96

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 $0.00

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