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Ms. Hales from Ogden UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Non-Fiction Books for Bigger Brains!

Help me give my students high quality, engaging, nonfiction books featuring diversity and important history.

  • $333 goal

This project expired on September 5, 2022.

This project expired on September 5, 2022.

My Project

My students are incredible. They are bright and curious, but I have noticed that they lack background knowledge about people, places, and historic events. Unfortunately we don't get many opportunities to teach much social studies during regular class time.

Having access to engaging and non-intimidating informational texts will increase their knowledge and also inspire them to learn more.

I am especially excited for them to learn about influential and important people of color. I plan to require students to read at least one non-fiction book per quarter, and I hope that once they start learning about new topics, that their thirst for knowledge will increase and they'll want to read more.

Ms. Hales
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Who Is Cristiano Ronaldo? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Were the Roaring Twenties? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Is Juneteenth? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Alexander the Great? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Marie Antoinette? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Where Is the Parthenon? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Where Is Chichen Itza? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Where Is Easter Island? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Winston Churchill? • Amazon Business $5.89 1 $5.89
Who Was Jesse Owens? • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
What Is the Civil Rights Movement? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Where Is Niagara Falls? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Napoleon? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Where Is Area 51? • Amazon Business $5.31 1 $5.31
Who Was Queen Elizabeth? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Was Queen Victoria? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
What Was the Vietnam War? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
What Was Ellis Island? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
What Was Pompeii? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Was Roberto Clemente? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
What Was the Hindenburg? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Was Frederick Douglass? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Where Are the Great Pyramids? (Where Is?) • Amazon Business $5.19 1 $5.19
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
Where Is the Colosseum? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Where Is the Taj Mahal? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
What Is the World Cup? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
What Was the Ice Age? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Who Was Coretta Scott King? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Louis Braille? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Abigail Adams? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Claude Monet? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was William Shakespeare? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Maria Tallchief? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was George Washington Carver? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Sojourner Truth? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Where Is Stonehenge? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Is Temple Grandin? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Great Chicago Fire? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs? • Amazon Business $3.98 1 $3.98
Where Is the Kremlin? • Amazon Business $2.99 1 $2.99
Who Was Marco Polo? • Amazon Business $2.99 1 $2.99

Materials cost

$249.24

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$282.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.94

Total project goal

$332.92

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