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Ms. Knowlton from Milo, ME is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read And Writing History (And Herstory, too!)

My students need colored paper, 12 stopwatches and a variety of paired books, fiction and non-fiction, to explore eras of US History. After reading, they will create 'foldables' that represent a timeline of the US.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Knowlton's classroom raised $826

This project is fully funded

My Students

When you were a kid and the teacher said, "Take out your Social Studies books," did you want to just crawl under your desk? Did you find history dreadfully dull? One year I was privileged to have a teacher who taught history through stories and that is when my love of history began.

My students attend a small K - 5 elementary school in a rural Maine town.

The poverty level is very high in this area, but our children are bright and promising, and they will make a difference in this town and in this state someday. Edmund Burke said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." Sadly, Social Studies has been taking a back seat to reading, math and science in our schools. There is so much pressure to raise test scores in these areas that there is little time left to spend on history or other social studies strands. I have found that students take an interest in history when they read historical fiction, the characters help make the history real and relevant to them. The facts in the book begin to make sense. Often while they are reading they want to know more about the history. Why did these things happen as they did? Why did the leaders make the choices they did? How did that impact the individual? ...the community? ...the world?

My Project

I plan to integrate history and reading and make it come alive through stories. I would like to purchase pairs of historical fiction and non-fiction books on the same topic. I will be teaching the skills of reading and comprehension and students will also be learning and discovering their past. As they read they will take notes, write mini-essays, and create maps and diagrams of the historical event they are studying. They will preserve and present their work in lapbook form. A lapbook begins as a file folder. The folder creates a base for students to attach their 'foldables' and mini-books. Foldables are created from colored paper, they could be 'lift the flap' or 'waterfall' or even a 3-dimensional pop-up. The foldables provide lots of writing surface in a very small space. Each historical event they study over the course of the year will have its own lapbook and, eventually the lapbooks will be combined to form a student-made timeline of American History

I know from experience that fifth-graders love to learn, especially when they are have creative ways to share their work.

They love to ferret out facts independently and impress the adults with what they have learned. Pairing fiction and non-fiction and integrating Social Studies with reading and writing just makes sense in today's busy classroom. The students will get the direct instruction they need in reading and writing and while also being self-directed learners in social studies. Win! Win!

Ms. Knowlton Milo Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Resources Active Play Simple Stopwatch • Quill.com $8.81 12 $105.72
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler''s Shadow • AKJ Books $16.05 3 $48.15
Black Potatoes • AKJ Books $7.26 6 $43.56
The Revolutionary War Home Front • AKJ Books $6.56 6 $39.36
Amazing Grace • AKJ Books $6.25 6 $37.50
We March • AKJ Books $12.40 3 $37.20
Wausau 24-lb. Astrobrights Colored Paper 8-1/2x11", Letter Size, Assorted Carton • Quill.com $36.89 1 $36.89
The Lions of Little Rock • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Quill Brand Economy Letter-Size Manila File Folders 1/3-Cut Tabs • Quill.com $6.99 5 $34.95
The Trail of Tears • AKJ Books $5.80 6 $34.80
Harmonica, The • AKJ Books $5.80 6 $34.80
To Be a Slave • AKJ Books $5.10 6 $30.60
Hiroshima: A Novella • AKJ Books $4.37 6 $26.22
Hitler Youth • AKJ Books $21.90 1 $21.90
The Horse-Riding Adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary • AKJ Books $6.53 3 $19.59
Amistad • AKJ Books $2.91 6 $17.46
Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II Mar • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
Tell Them We Remember • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40

Materials cost

$630.67

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.53

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$701.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$123.82

Total project goal

$825.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $825.48

82 Donors

-$756.60

Donations toward project cost

-$654.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$102.54

Matching donations from our partners

-$58.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$49.30

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.88

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