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Mrs. Carlson from Royal City WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Water Protectors Unite! - Literacy, Environmental Science & Native Cultures

Help me give my students a class set of We Are Water Protectors to connect literacy skills with environmentalism and Native American culture.

  • 4 donors
  • $224 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Project

My students are bright, inquisitive, and love a challenge. I teach enrichment groups for gifted students throughout my day. Gifted students come in all shapes, sizes, and abilities. I teach some gifted students with reading disabilities as well as bilingual students still catching up on English skills.

Students learn best when they can relate to what they are reading; these engaging science texts teach about the importance of clean water, our duty to be good environmental stewards, and the impact of oil spills while helping students connect to Native American cultures and their sense of wonder about the world around them.

I plan to use these books with my 2nd-grade reading enrichment group. I am trying to incorporate more climate science in with our reading and Native American cultures is one of the major social studies topics for 2nd graders. These books are the prefect jumping off place for discussions about how to be good stewards of the earth. Clean water is especially important in our community since the major industry is farming.

In our rural district, most of the families work in agriculture. Over 80% of our school children are of Hispanic descent, and many of them are English Language Learners. Most students participate in the free lunch program.

Mrs. Carlson
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner) • Amazon Business $11.75 11 $129.25
Somos guardianes del agua (We Are Water Protectors) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99

Materials cost

$145.24

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$12.71

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$190.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.55

Total project goal

$223.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$223.68

3 Donors

-$111.10

Donations toward project cost

-$95.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.41

match offer

-$111.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$94.44

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.48

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$0.00

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