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Ms. Camp from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Nonfiction Classroom Library

My students need engaging nonfiction books to read about various subjects in science and math.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Camp's classroom raised $419

This project is fully funded

My Students

Many of the books that children will encounter throughout their educations will be nonfiction. In order to become proficient readers of informational text, they need to be exposed to a rich variety of books in this genre. Sadly, my students do not have access to many interesting nonfiction books.

My students attend public school in a large urban district.

The majority of them come from immigrant families for whom English is a second language. 55% qualify for free or reduced lunch. The families at our school believe education is important and help impart this belief to their children. As a result, the students work hard to do well and be successful. With the right tools, they would soar. Unfortunately, lack of funds means that they do not always have access to quality tools.

My Project

Children learn by taking in pieces of information and storing them. As they get older, their brains learn to organize, classify, and think critically about this stored information. Unfortunately, many children are not reading enough nonfiction material, are not reading it well, or are not retaining the information that they do read. By the time they get to high school and college, the stores of information they have to work with are limited, and as a result, so are their chances for success. The best remedy for this is practice: reading a lot of nonfiction text from an early age. With a classroom library full of interesting informational books to read, my students will get the practice they need to prepare themselves for their future educations. The more knowledgeable they are, the greater their chances for success will be.

It is well-known that the United States falls behind many other countries in its math and science education.

One way to help remedy this is to ensure that children are exposed to math and science information from an early age. This project will provide my students with a rich and varied amount of texts to read in these subjects. It will not only help expose them to the greater world, but will help prepare them for the challenges they will face in the future.

Ms. Camp R Louis Stevenson Elementary School Grades 3-5 San Francisco, CA 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
The Water Cycle • AKJ Books $5.14 1 $5.14
Birds Philippe J. Dubois, Valerie Guidoux, Gilles Martin (Ph • AKJ Books $14.02 1 $14.02
Eyewitness Bird David Burnie • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Electricity • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Awesome Experiments in Electricity & Magnetism • AKJ Books $5.14 1 $5.14
Electricity and Magnetism • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
The Shocking World of Electricity with Max Axiom, Super Scie • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
The Attractive Story of Magnetism with Max Axiom, Super Scie • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Baby Birds • AKJ Books $4.40 1 $4.40
Bird Eggs • AKJ Books $4.40 1 $4.40
Birds • AKJ Books $5.14 1 $5.14
Smithsonian Handbooks Reptiles and Amphibians • AKJ Books $14.80 1 $14.80
Baby Reptiles • AKJ Books $5.14 1 $5.14
Reptiles • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
I Wonder Why Snakes Shed Their Skin • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Amphibian • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
The Worst Earthquakes of All Time • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Earthquakes! • AKJ Books $4.40 1 $4.40
Water, Water Everywhere (Discovery Readers Series): A Book a • AKJ Books $3.66 1 $3.66
The Life and Times of a Drop of Water: The Water Cycle • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Mammals • AKJ Books $14.80 1 $14.80
A Mob of Meerkats : and Other Mammal Groups • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
Polar Mammals • AKJ Books $5.14 1 $5.14
Classifying Mammals (2nd Edition) • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
What Are Earth''s Biomes? • AKJ Books $6.62 1 $6.62
Many Biomes, One Earth • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Digestion • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Digestion and Excretion • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Pump It Up: Respiration and Circulation • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
The Circulatory System: Why Does My Heart Beat? • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Circulatory Story, The • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
The Circulatory System • AKJ Books $6.62 1 $6.62
The Digestive System: What Makes Me Burp? • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
A Journey Through the Digestive System with Max Axiom, Super • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
The Respiratory System: Why Do I Feel Out of Breath? • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Plant Plumbing • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Plant Packages • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Amazing Plants • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Alice in Pastaland • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Graphing in the Desert • AKJ Books $6.81 1 $6.81
Mummy Math • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Grapes of Math • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
The Multiplying Menace Divides • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
A Gebra Named Al: A Novel Wendy Isdell • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91

Materials cost

$294.27

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.93

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$355.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.75

Total project goal

$418.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $418.36

2 Donors

-$418.36

Donations toward project cost

-$355.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.75

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