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Mrs. Hanson from Livingston, MT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Biography of a Hero

Help me give my students grade-level appropriate biographies to read and write reports about.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Hanson's classroom raised $458

This project is fully funded

My Students

The fifth grade students at our school are constantly working toward being stewards of our watershed, empowered decision makers, historians and conscientious community members. We are located in south-central Montana, just north of Yellowstone National Park. We are an active, outdoorsy and environmentally aware class. Being engaged with our "backyard" keeps us connected to our watershed.

Our daily goal is to explore learning through personal experience and modeling.

The Fifth graders of our school value the knowledge they acquire in this year of study, and some students reflect upon graduation that it was their favorite.

My Project

My students need access to grade-level appropriate biography materials to read for research information. In fifth grade, students explore the lives of American heroes from the Civil War through Civil Rights. After a year of historical events study, students choose and inspiration hero from our United States timeline. They then write a biography report about the hero's childhood and legacy.

Their final performance of the year is a Musical Timeline presentation and Wax Museum.

This project is truly a rite-of-passage. Students honor another human being by researching, writing, painting, and embodying them. The musical timeline that serves as the opening to the public has brought forth community tears of joy and nostalgia. Students pose as wax figures dressed as their historical hero in front of their backdrops. This project not only embodies the heroes of students, but it embodies the true purpose of the fifth grade total experience.

Mrs. Hanson East Side Elementary School Grades 3-5 Livingston, MT View local requests

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
Betsy Ross And the American Flag • AKJ Education $22.86 1 $22.86
Native Americans in Early America • AKJ Education $20.15 1 $20.15
Queer, There, and Everywhere • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Georgia in Hawaii When Georgia O?Keeffe Painted What She Pleased • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Ida B. Wells Let the Truth Be Told • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Blues Poems • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
Created Equal Women Campaign for the Right to Vote 1840 - 1920 • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Rosie the Riveter • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
African American Soldiers • AKJ Education $8.54 1 $8.54
Friends of the Earth A History of American Environmentalism: With 21 Activities • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Louis Armstrong • AKJ Education $7.67 1 $7.67
Women' s Suffrage Fighting for Women's Rights • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Reconstruction and the Aftermath of the Civil War • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
The Women Behind Rosie the Riveter: Working for the U.S. War Effort • AKJ Education $5.98 1 $5.98
Samuel Morse and the Telegraph • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Philo Farnsworth and the Television • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Elizabeth Blackwell America's First Woman Doctor • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Theodore Roosevelt Bear of a President • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Marie Curie and Radioactivity • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Muhammad Ali: American Champion • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Mother Jones Labor Leader • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Clara Barton Angel of the Battlefield • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
My Name Is Georgia A Portrait by Jeanette Winter • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Snowflake Bentley • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Amelia Earhart • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Martin Luther King Jr. • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Charles Lindbergh • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Steve Jobs • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Babe Ruth • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Profiles #4: Freedom Heroines • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Abraham Lincoln • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Jacob Lawrence • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Grant Wood • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Andy Warhol • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Henry Ford Big Wheel in the Auto Industry • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Edward Hopper • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Dorothea Lange • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Norman Rockwell • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Who Was Babe Ruth? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Is Stan Lee? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Rosa Parks? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Harriet Tubman? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Susan B. Anthony? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Mark Twain? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Great American Story of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang! • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$353.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$389.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.69

Total project goal

$457.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.92

6 Donors

-$343.12

Donations toward project cost

-$314.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.95

match offer

-$88.31

Match offer toward project cost

-$75.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.49

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