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Mrs. Elliott from Culver City, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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History Loved Through Pictures

My students need historical fiction picture books and interactive stories to help them connect to history.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Elliott's classroom raised $385

This project is fully funded

My Students

Picture books are amazing ways to help teach history and famous historical events in a memorable way that students can connect to. Rather than just using textbooks which can be difficult and tedious, my students can learn to love history through the pictures and the stories these books carry.

Our school is a small public school with students from many different countries around the world, with varied life experiences.

Being small is an advantage, in which all the students know each other well, work together and take care of each other. Parents help in the classroom and the community spirit flourishes. Students share books with one another and discuss what they read in literature circles. Some students have the means to have books at home and others go to the library to get their books. We are currently reading the same books together and studying so many features of text as a group. My students love to read and are making incredible connections to stories we have completed together with ones we are currently reading. I would love to be able to read picture books to my students in the historical fiction genre and have books available for them to read and learn from as well. I would love to have them choose their own paths in history using interactive books.

My Project

I will read these books to my students to supplement our history and social studies lessons. We currently read from a text book but I would love to have historical fiction picture books that they can understand, enjoy and connect to our class lessons. These stories will leave them with a passion to learn more about history. These books will be left in the classroom library that I am trying to build and used to read to reading buddies and to each other. The interactive history books will allow students to choose the paths that they want to take in history and will completely engage them with the concepts they have to learn. My students will learn more about history because they will live it in the interactive texts and connect to the picture books.

My students will leave my classroom loving history and yearn to learn more because of the books that I have chosen.

Instead of solely learning from a textbook or short video clips that come with the program we use, they will have picture books to connect history to and interactive stories to become a part of. These books will improve my classroom because they will show my students that history is exciting, fun, and that amazing stories can be spun from the history of our country.

Mrs. Elliott Playa Del Rey Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Culver City, CA View local requests

More than a third 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 Civil War: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.95 2 $13.90
Pink and Say • Amazon $13.70 1 $13.70
The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale (Tales of Young Americans) • Amazon $13.32 1 $13.32
Lucky Beans • Amazon $12.74 1 $12.74
Baseball Saved Us • Amazon $8.95 1 $8.95
Katie's Trunk • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
Smoky Night • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
Mirette on the High Wire • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
The Butterfly • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
Train to Somewhere • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom • Amazon $7.99 1 $7.99
Grandfather's Journey • Amazon $7.61 1 $7.61
The Gardener • Amazon $7.61 1 $7.61
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Dragonfly Books) • Amazon $7.61 1 $7.61
Under the Quilt of Night • Amazon $7.54 1 $7.54
Night Tree • Amazon $7.00 1 $7.00
The Old Woman Who Named Things • Amazon $7.00 1 $7.00
The Lotus Seed • Amazon $7.00 1 $7.00
Dandelions • Amazon $7.00 1 $7.00
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon $6.99 1 $6.99
When Jessie Came Across the Sea • Amazon $6.99 1 $6.99
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky • Amazon $6.99 1 $6.99
The Wall (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon $6.99 1 $6.99
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story • Amazon $6.95 1 $6.95
The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.95 1 $6.95
Colonial America: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: Historical Eras) • Amazon $6.95 1 $6.95
The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.95 1 $6.95
The Wild West: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.88 1 $6.88
World War I: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.88 1 $6.88
The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.88 1 $6.88
Going West (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon $5.99 1 $5.99
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides • Amazon $5.29 1 $5.29

Materials cost

$264.59

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $24.21

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$326.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.66

Total project goal

$384.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $384.42

1 Donor

-$384.42

Donations toward project cost

-$326.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.66

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