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Mr. Dusenberry from Saint Charles MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Smarter Together: Chromebooks for STEM Classroom

My students need four chromebooks for our online science curriculum that goes along with our STEM classroom.

  • $1,225 goal

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My Students

I am a 5th grade teacher who teaches three 2 hour blocks of math and science. I would like my students to be more aware of STEM education and be able to do more STEM activities but lack of technology in the classroom is holding us back. "Technology makes the world a new place."- Shosana Zuboff.

My students are extraordinary people.

We have students from all different backgrounds (culture, socioeconomic, race, etc.) and they all truly care about each other's well being. My students love to play sports, to craft, and to read. In my classroom specifically they love doing whiteboard problems in math and labs and activities in science. I work for an amazing school district at our intermediate school (grades 5 and 6). My school was built in the early 1970's so we do not have the most updated building. We have had to do a lot of renovating and re-wiring in order to add computer labs and school wide wifi. Due to my school being older we have to budget in money toward maintaining the building which lowers our technology budget. For my classroom, out of 25 students, I only have 6 chromebooks. To share those between 25 students is near impossible. Especially when our curriculum is through Discovery Education which is online.

My Project

My students will be using these Chromebooks daily for educational purposes. As I stated earlier, our science curriculum is all online. Students have their own log ins and passwords. I am allowed to assign them readings, activities, online labs, and quizzes through Discovery Education. Due to the lack of Chromebooks, I can only have 6 students on at a time, while the other students have to do "boring" work involving the lesson. With your help by getting these extra resources, I will be able to pair up students on a Chromebook each day for the lesson and not just every other day. Right now we do not get to utilize our science curriculum and STEM projects as much as we would like. By adding more Chromebooks, students will have more of an opportunity to dive into their own learning. They will learn about force and motion, simple machines, space, and countless STEM projects connecting math and science. The students see Chromebooks as something that is fun and interests their learning.

Donations to this project will improve my classroom because I will be able to incorporate more STEM and science activities through technology.

STEM careers are taking flight all over the world. It is the fastest growing job market out there and I would like these students to get exposed to that at an early age. With your help, these students would be able to get more individualized time dealing with technology. The more familiar they are with technology the more successful they will be later on.

Mr. Dusenberry
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
2015 Newest Dell Chromebook, 11.6inch HD Non-Touch LCD, Intel Celeron N2840 up to 2.58 GHz, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC SSD, Black Cover (Certified Refurbished) • Amazon Business $249.00 4 $996.00

Materials cost

$996.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,040.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$183.70

Total project goal

$1,224.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,224.64

1 Donor

-$1,224.64

Donations toward project cost

-$1,040.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$183.70

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