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Ms. Isbell from Chula Vista CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Who was ... ? Series Non-fiction Books and Biographies

My students need high quality nonfiction books, including biographies which this amazing "Who was ...? Series" provides.

  • $329 goal

This project expired on September 12, 2017.

This project expired on September 12, 2017.

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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 Students

In our classroom there are many 2nd grade readers. Our classroom library could use many more books, especially in the non-fiction and biography genres. These books will help the students continue to grow in reading.

The students always love the "Wax Museum" project that we complete each year and present to parents.

My students would have more options to choose from for this project by having more books to use for their research in the classroom. My having more books to select from, my students can be much more creative with their projects.

My Project

The Nonfiction books from this series will help me teach the 2nd grade History standards. For example, History Standard 2.5: "Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). "

While teaching this history standard, I allow students to choose whichever hero from history they would like to research.

Using these biography books students can research an important person from history. The students will use their research to create a report about the hero. Then on the day of that students presentation their reports, the students will dress up as the "hero from history" that they selected and put on a "Wax Museum" for their parents to come see.

Ms. Isbell
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Who Was? Activity Book • Amazon Business $6.02 1 $6.02
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Genghis Khan? • Amazon Business $5.97 1 $5.97
Where Is the Great Barrier Reef? • Amazon Business $5.84 1 $5.84
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $5.70 1 $5.70
Who Was Gandhi? • Amazon Business $5.66 1 $5.66
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
What Was the Alamo? • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
Who Was Bruce Lee? • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49
Who Was Abigail Adams? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Davy Crockett? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Roald Dahl? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who is J.K. Rowling? • Amazon Business $5.38 1 $5.38
Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien? • Amazon Business $5.20 1 $5.20
Who Was Elvis Presley? • Amazon Business $5.10 1 $5.10
What Was the Wild West? • Amazon Business $5.05 1 $5.05
Who Is Elton John? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.93 1 $4.93
Who Was Princess Diana? • Amazon Business $4.69 1 $4.69
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs? • Amazon Business $4.57 1 $4.57
Who Was Galileo? • Amazon Business $4.57 1 $4.57
Who Was Henry Ford? • Amazon Business $4.56 1 $4.56
Who Was Sitting Bull? • Amazon Business $4.52 1 $4.52
Who Was Paul Revere? • Amazon Business $4.48 1 $4.48
What Was D-Day? • Amazon Business $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? • Amazon Business $4.31 1 $4.31
Who Was Charles Dickens? • Amazon Business $4.31 1 $4.31
Who Is Stevie Wonder? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.27 1 $4.27
Where Is the Amazon? • Amazon Business $4.23 1 $4.23
Who Was Ben Franklin? • Amazon Business $4.20 1 $4.20
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? • Amazon Business $4.20 1 $4.20
Who Was Robert E. Lee? • Amazon Business $4.19 1 $4.19
Who Was Cesar Chavez? • Amazon Business $4.17 1 $4.17
Who Was Alexander the Great? • Amazon Business $4.17 1 $4.17
Who Was Daniel Boone? • Amazon Business $4.14 1 $4.14
Who Was Pablo Picasso? • Amazon Business $4.07 1 $4.07
Who Was Charlie Chaplin? • Amazon Business $4.01 1 $4.01
Who Were The Three Stooges? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.01 1 $4.01
Who Was Mother Teresa? • Amazon Business $3.85 1 $3.85
Who Was Steve Jobs? • Amazon Business $3.85 1 $3.85
Who Is Wayne Gretzky? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.77 1 $3.77
Who Was Maya Angelou? • Amazon Business $3.70 1 $3.70
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • Amazon Business $3.58 1 $3.58
Who Was Betsy Ross? • Amazon Business $3.56 1 $3.56
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • Amazon Business $3.47 1 $3.47
Who Was Andy Warhol? • Amazon Business $3.35 1 $3.35
Who Was Jim Henson? • Amazon Business $2.99 1 $2.99
Who Was Sojourner Truth? • Amazon Business $2.70 1 $2.70
Who Was Maurice Sendak? • Amazon Business $2.60 1 $2.60
Who Was Marie Antoinette? • Amazon Business $2.60 1 $2.60

Materials cost

$225.23

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$20.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$279.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.27

Total project goal

$328.49

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