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 live in the worst area, of a large city, in Maryland. Sometimes, just getting to school is a struggle. For most, school is the only constant in their lives.
Our school is in the bottom ten percent, in the entire state of Maryland.
This means that our students get a lot of services. Unfortunately, although the services do help, my students lack motivation. Therefore, I am constantly looking for ways to constantly engage my students. Any resources will assist our educational community.
My Project
Many of my students love science but they do not like to read much because they say that the selections that are currently available are boring. That is why I selected these books to increase interest in reading about science.
These books were selected because they are fun.
Also, many of the students are one or two grade levels behind in reading. Therefore, with these invigorating titles, their reading levels will increase.
In the book The Way Things Work Now, students will learn how things work now as opposed to how they worked when they were first introduced.
In the Science Book, students will be able to reference ideas in science and the big ideas will be simply explained.
In the book, National Geographic Kids Why, the students will learn why things happen and the ideas behind them.
There are a few students who are on grade level. For those students, I selected a science trilogy. The trilogy mentions concepts we are learning. Therefore, the students will make the literature and science connection.
The Science Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
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$21.45
3
$64.35
Photographic Card Deck of The Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table
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$20.04
3
$60.12
Space! (Knowledge Encyclopedias)
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$17.49
3
$52.47
Science Encyclopedia: Atom Smashing, Food Chemistry, Animals, Space, and More! (Encyclopaedia)
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$17.49
3
$52.47
Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have: 50 New Robots, Dragons, Race Cars, Planes, Wild Animals and Other Exciting Projects to Build Imaginative Worlds
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$13.59
3
$40.77
How Things Work: Discover Secrets and Science Behind Bounce Houses, Hovercraft, Robotics, and Everything in Between (National Geographic Kids)
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$13.49
3
$40.47
National Geographic Kids Why?: Over 1,111 Answers to Everything
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$13.46
3
$40.38
Awesome Science Experiments for Kids: 100+ Fun STEM / STEAM Projects and Why They Work
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$12.11
3
$36.33
Epic Zero Series: Books 1-3: Epic Zero Collection
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$17.99
2
$35.98
One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!
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$11.67
3
$35.01
National Geographic Kids Just Joking: 300 Hilarious Jokes, Tricky Tongue Twisters, and Ridiculous Riddles
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$5.26
3
$15.78
Materials cost
$551.26
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$33.08
3rd party payment processing fee
$8.27
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$622.61
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$109.87
Total project goal
$732.48
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$732.48
1 Donor
-$732.48
Donations toward project cost
-$622.61
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