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Ms. Pederson from Santa Ana CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Thinking Maps on Walls

My students need butcher paper and markers to make Thinking Maps to display on our classroom walls.

  • $365 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

One of my favorite parts of teaching is helping students make connections between ideas, but my most favorite part of teaching is helping students articulate these ideas in order to communicate well with others.

My students attend a large urban high school in southern California.

For most of my students, English is a second language, and although most of them live in poverty, they work hard to increase their language abilities. With help and structure, these students can and do earn top academic scores and increase their school wide academic literacy skills in order to be successful in all of their classes.

My Project

My students have been trained in Thinking Maps, a method of mapping out ideas in order to facilitate critical thinking skills necessary for academic success. In particular, these students become experts in comparing & contrasting, sequencing, cause & effect, classification, analogies, part-to-whole, etc. By using the butcher paper and markers that we are requesting, the students can map out their thinking and place the maps on our classroom walls to help them learn and organize information in a manner that leads to writing and projects.

It has been said that the real poverty in low socio-economic students is the poverty of cognitive skills.

The academic self-confidence these Thinking Maps instill in these students is remarkable. The students use these thinking skills originally in their language arts classes, then transfer these skills to all academic classes. Not only do these Thinking Maps help students in K-12, they carry over to college, helping students to succeed in higher education as well.

Ms. Pederson
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ORIGINAL COLORING MARKERS 8 COLOR----*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $4.74 20 $94.80
BUTCHER PAPER NAT BROWN 36 X 1000- - --*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $65.70 2 $131.40

Materials cost

$226.20

Vendor shipping charges

 $24.88

Sales tax

 $20.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$310.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.74

Total project goal

$364.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $364.91

8 Donors

-$299.17

Donations toward project cost

-$267.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.50

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$15.74

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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