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Ms. Audam from Aurora, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing Back Books!

Help me give my students a Grade 5 Hands-On Science Kit, Who Was? nonfiction books, and a variety of other books for classroom use.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Audam's classroom raised $943

This project is fully funded

My Project

COVID-19 slowed down learning for so many of our young people at a very crucial stage. They were stuck every day on the computer trying to learn and keep up, when many of them still learn better with hands on learning and reading an actual book. Our school doesn't have a library and I teach science and social studies to an extremely diverse multilingual/leveled group of fifth graders. I chose a variety of books and labs for a class library that they could relate to, be engaged with and still learn standards while having fun. The science labs are a direct link into our Colorado state standards and cover three of my units. They will give my students the extra interaction that they need, while collaborating and learning/working through things as a team. Especially since my science curriculum is almost all computer based. My students are still learning key social skills that should have been taught when they were younger that Covid prevented. These labs will really benefit them and their understanding of the concepts/topics.

Ms. Audam Lotus School for Excellence - Middle & High School Grades 3-5

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Meet the Standards Hands-On Science Kits - Gr. 5 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 1 $179.00
Who Was? Nonfiction Collection - 24 Book Set • AKJ Education $117.28 1 $117.28
10 Book Bundle - Lee & Low Anti-Racism Collection (Grades 3-5) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $110.00 1 $110.00
What Was...? Collection - 15 Book Set • AKJ Education $73.20 1 $73.20
Multicultural Biographies Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $71.50 1 $71.50
Science Comics: Solar System • AKJ Education $9.48 2 $18.96
Under My Hijab Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning Materials $18.95 1 $18.95
More to the Story • AKJ Education $5.83 3 $17.49
The Proudest Blue A Story of Hijab and Family • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Your Name is a Song (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Ada Twist's Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Science Comics: Dinosaurs Fossils and Feathers • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Science Comics: The Brain • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
The Who Was? History of the World • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Lord of the Flies • AKJ Education $7.18 1 $7.18
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (a Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Dynamic World of Chemical Reactions With Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
The World of Food Chains with Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
What Was Ellis Island? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Who Was the Voice of the People?: Cesar Chavez • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Kids' Guide to the American Revolution • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
What Is the Civil Rights Movement? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Great Depression? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Boston Tea Party? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Holocaust? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$748.12

Vendor shipping charges

$12.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$801.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.41

Total project goal

$942.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$942.75

1 Donor

-$942.75

Donations toward project cost

-$801.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$141.41

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