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Mr. Kyle Smith from Kansas City MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Us Learn to Draw the World Around Us

Help me give my students a resource for learning to draw what they see around them in the world.

  • $286 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are starting their own digital marketing agency for the Kansas City area and need your help to be competitive. The students at our high school are from low-income areas and attend schools that have difficulty finding teachers and resources. Our school is a technical branch that buses students from their high school to ours in order to learn practical job skills.

My classes will specifically focus on digital marketing and video production for local businesses in the Kansas City area.

Our objective is to teach students the skills they need to work for an advertising agency or corporate digital marketing department. Another important objective of our class is to promote locally owned businesses and charities in our area. We will be managing the businesses and charities as our clients.

We will be creating email marketing campaigns, social media posts, and videos to capture the essence of being a locally owned business in Kansas City. Help us make our space bright, creative, inspiring, and technologically capable. The investment we make now will empower our students for years to come in the workforce or when they open their own business.

My Project

I've been focused this year on building a classroom library and this section of our classroom library will be for learning to draw things in nature and things constructed by humans. My students want more art reference books and specifically want more how-to-draw books.

We want to be better artists every day and these books will help our students learn step-by-step instructions for practicing their illustrative eye-hand coordination.

Every day we start out sketching on paper and these step-by-step books were how I learned to draw. I am hoping my students will someday look back at these books as the building blocks of their ability to draw on paper and on the computer.

Mr. Kyle Smith
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
How To Draw: Drawing And Sketching Objects And Environments From Your Imagination • Amazon Business $27.49 1 $27.49
Drawing Wildlife • Amazon Business $24.95 1 $24.95
The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals: How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets • Amazon Business $20.13 1 $20.13
The Artist's Guide to Drawing Realistic Animals • Amazon Business $19.09 1 $19.09
The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and More • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Draw Buildings and Cities in 15 Minutes: Amaze your friends with your drawing skills • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Drawing: Birds: Learn to draw step by step (How to Draw & Paint) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Drawing: Dogs & Puppies: Learn to draw step by step (How to Draw & Paint) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Great White Sharks, Killer Whales, Barracudas, Seahorses, Seals, and More... • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Castles and Cathedrals, Skyscrapers and Bridges, and So Much More... • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Drawing: Trees with William F. Powell: Learn to draw step by step (How to Draw & Paint) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
How to Draw Woodland Animals In Simple Steps • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell: Learn to draw step by step (How to Draw & Paint) • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65

Materials cost

$206.06

Vendor shipping charges

$3.89

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$243.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.89

Total project goal

$285.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$285.93

2 Donors

-$126.62

Donations toward project cost

-$126.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$136.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.42

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.54

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.34

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$0.00

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