Help me give my students a library of engaging books to read that will motivate and interest them to delve deeper into topics that we are learning about in the classroom, and projects they are completing.
The diverse students in our rural K-8 country school are eager to learn! They ask engaging questions and are curious to learn more. In particular, my 5th - 8th-grade science students love independent, student-driven projects, researching, and presenting their work.
Currently, they have very limited access to engaging, non-fiction books that will expand their curiosity about the subjects in science that interest them the most.
They enjoy reading the magazines and other materials that I have available, but I would love to expand the selection to include books on a wide variety of science topics that can be checked out to them.
My Project
My classroom lacks a good reading library of non-fiction science books that are engaging and high interest for students. I am committed to building up a library for my students that they can use to read more deeply into topics that we are learning in class and to support their student projects.
This year, they will be working together in small groups on a service project around the issues of plastic pollution.
We will be learning about the impacts of pollution on our oceans, and we will be using the albatross as a case example. Many of the selected books support this topic.
Thank you for your consideration of this donation request! Supporting student's natural curiosity by providing a library of interesting books has been a goal for my classroom, and this will help achieve this goal!
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Ecological Disasters)
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$30.75
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$30.75
Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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$29.20
1
$29.20
Let's Investigate Plastic Pollution: On Land and in the Oceans (Get Started With STEM)
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$28.50
1
$28.50
Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution
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$19.09
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$19.09
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
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$16.97
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$16.97
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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$16.22
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$16.22
Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
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$15.95
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$15.95
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
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$15.88
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$15.88
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them
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$15.29
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$15.29
Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands
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$14.99
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$14.99
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
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$14.82
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$14.82
Holy Moli: Albatross and Other Ancestors
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$14.73
1
$14.73
Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
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$14.23
1
$14.23
A Perfect Day for An Albatross
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$12.84
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$12.84
I Like To Move It! Physical Science Book for Kids - Newton's Laws of Motion | Children's Physics Book
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$12.45
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$12.45
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
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$12.19
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$12.19
How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time
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$12.00
1
$12.00
Save the Ocean
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$11.77
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$11.77
What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet
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$10.82
1
$10.82
Wisdom, The Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and other Disasters for over 60 Years
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$9.99
1
$9.99
Albatrosses: Amazing Photos & Fun Facts Book About Albatrosses (Amazing Animals Facts)
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$9.99
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$9.99
Plastic Pollution (Hot Topics)
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$9.51
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$9.51
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion (Graphic Science Biographies)
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$8.99
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$8.99
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series)
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$8.42
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$8.42
World Without Fish
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$8.21
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$8.21
Trash Vortex: How Plastic Pollution Is Choking the World's Oceans (Captured Science History)
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$7.59
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$7.59
Pesky Plastic: An Environmental Story
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$7.00
1
$7.00
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe (Scientists in the Field Series)
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$5.82
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$5.82
The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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$4.99
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$4.99
Materials cost
$399.20
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.99
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$435.19
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$76.80
Total project goal
$511.99
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$511.99
5 Donors
-$426.99
Donations toward project cost
-$362.94
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$64.05
match offer
-$85.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$72.25
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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