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Ms. Jaimes from Castle Rock, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Jaimes's classroom raised $577

Journeys: Children on the Move

My students need books, both fiction and informational text, to help them understand and empathize with the challenges faced by others, so that they can begin to see how they might create meaningful and positive change.

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Ms. Jaimes Flagstone Elementary School
Castle Rock, CO Grades 3-5

My Students

On the cusp of adolescence, the students I have the privilege of learning with, come to school with amazing potential and energy. Tucked away in a quiet and safe bedroom community, twenty miles or so from a major metropolitan area in the center of our country, they have an intense curiosity about the wider world.

To engage vibrant minds we reach out to the wider world, engaging in inquiries into international initiatives like the U.N's Global Goals for Sustainable Development, environmental education through the National Bluebird Project, and through smaller initiatives like March Book Madness, Global Read Aloud, and the Global Math Task Twitter Challenge.

Tools like KidBlogs, Twitter, and Skype allow us to tell our stories and hear the stories of others from all around the world.

We are a classroom of avid readers. Books play a central role in helping us learn about the world, developing empathy and appreciation for people, places, and cultures we wouldn't otherwise know. Books offer a uniquely immersive experience, where we can enter another world and see through the eyes of another, if only briefly.

My Project

Globally, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, and usually more than half of any refugee population are children.* Helping my students to empathize with the journeys refugee children must endure, and understand the causes and challenges of the crisis as a whole, lays a foundation that will encourage and empower my students to take action on one of our most critical global issues.

Recent research has shown that when readers are immersed in a story, their brains process the experiences of the main characters as their own, leaving readers' brains more tolerant and empathetic.

With the help of this grant, groups of six students and their teacher will read both a fiction and a nonfiction book about a current refugee crisis, exploring the text in greater depth through book club conversations. Students will then have the opportunity to join their new knowledge with that of their classmates to construct a more comprehensive understanding of children on the move throughout the world today.

These book clubs will be one component in a larger study of Journeys, which will include journeys of refugees, journeys of water in the water cycle, journeys of birds in migration, and journeys of cultures across space and time.

*worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org

25 students impacted 7 donors
Ms. Jaimes Flagstone Elementary School Grades 3-5 Castle Rock, CO View local requests 25 students impacted 7donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Refugee's Journey from Syria (Leaving My Homeland) • Amazon Business $8.95 7 $62.65
A Refugee's Journey from Iraq (Leaving My Homeland) • Amazon Business $8.95 7 $62.65
How I Became A Ghost - A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story (Book 1 in the How I Became A Ghost Series) • Amazon Business $7.76 7 $54.32
A Refugee's Journey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Leaving My Homeland) • Amazon Business $6.78 7 $47.46
A Refugee's Journey from Afghanistan (Leaving My Homeland) • Amazon Business $6.78 7 $47.46
The Red Pencil • Amazon Business $6.30 7 $44.10
Iqbal • Amazon Business $6.00 7 $42.00
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $4.28 7 $29.96
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey (Arabic and English Edition) • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The Journey • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey • Amazon Business $9.86 1 $9.86

Materials cost

$426.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.27

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$489.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.42

Total project goal

$576.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $576.13

5 Donors

-$287.18

Donations toward project cost

-$245.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.58

match offer

-$287.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$244.11

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.08

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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