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Mr. Tennyson from Anchorage, AK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Beyond Basic: Integrating Art & Environmental Info & State Reports

My students need 26 books about the states and an assortment of recycled paper.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Tennyson's classroom raised $997

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach in a school that is high poverty, all of our students are economically disadvantaged but we are not a Title 1 school. All my students are eligible for free breakfast and lunch. We have a number of students who are homeless. In my classroom alone I have had over 50% of my class come and go during the school year. Many of my students are the children of deployed military personnel. Several of my students are also here in the United States for the first time, and English is not their first language. The students in my sixth grade class are trying very hard to be successful but they need help. They need interesting, accurate information that is on their reading level. They generally do not have access to technology outside of school. Our classroom library has nothing for them.

I want my students to learn that John Muir was right when he said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

My Project

Every year, my sixth graders research and write state reports. They pick a state and do an informational poster but I want to do something different. I want to make their research more meaningful and purposeful. I plan to have my students to create their own book including information on all the states, not just solitary state. I want them to study about Gaylord Nelson who said "The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is...That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world."

This project has the potential to change the ways in which my students think about the states, the meaning of "development", the types and uses of energy, and how humans have changed the landscape.

This request is the second part of my project. In this one, I am asking for the rest of the books about the individual states for my students to use for research for their creative interactive report journals/books. I plan to have my students work together to create the different landforms and then use digital cameras to photograph their work. I also want them to create illustrations of super fund sites and other ecological disasters for their notebooks.

Instead of the somewhat boring, old, state reports that students do every year and throw out, I want my students enlarge their reports, concentrate on the geologic features of the states and include information about energy consumption and development of natural resources as well as disasters. I want them to use books rather than internet where they can just cut and paste. I want them to dig deep and think.

Mr. Tennyson College Gate Elementary School Grades 6-8

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kansas (America the Beautiful, Third) • Amazon Business $40.00 1 $40.00
Washington, DC (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Wyoming: The Equality State (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Wisconsin: The Badger State (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
West Virginia (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Vermont (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Rhode Island: The Ocean State (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Oklahoma (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
New Jersey (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Nebraska (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Mississippi (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Pennsylvania (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
North Carolina (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Delaware (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
South Dakota (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Michigan (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
North Dakota (United States of America) • Amazon Business $31.36 1 $31.36
Louisiana (United States of America) • Amazon Business $28.26 1 $28.26
Tennessee (United States of America) • Amazon Business $28.26 1 $28.26
Georgia (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.18 1 $27.18
New Hampshire (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.18 1 $27.18
Kentucky (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.17 1 $27.17
Missouri (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.17 1 $27.17
Connecticut (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.17 1 $27.17
Maryland (United States of America) • Amazon Business $27.17 1 $27.17
Virginia (United States of America) • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
Staples Brights, 8 1/2" x 11", Teal, 24 lb., 500 Sheets/Rm • Staples Advantage $7.00 1 $7.00
Staples Brights, 8 1/2" x 11", Yellow, 24 lb., 500 Sheets/Rm • Staples Advantage $6.98 1 $6.98

Materials cost

$790.20

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.50

Sales tax

 $11.85

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$847.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.54

Total project goal

$996.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $996.94

6 Donors

-$456.58

Donations toward project cost

-$456.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$459.78

Match offer toward project cost

-$390.81

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$80.57

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 $0.00

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