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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner, WI is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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To Type or Not to Type, That is the Question!

My students need keyboards for their iPads to work on computer science skills, work on projects, and take the Smarter Balanced Assessment.

  • $503 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are intrigued by technology. They are excited to use technology to do just about anything. Currently they are not able to use their iPads to the fullest learning potential.

I teach 17 bright third grade students.

I teach in a school district where 54% are economically disadvantaged. Last year our technology department was able to move funds around and provided our entire third grade with iPads. These iPads have made huge gains for our classrooms in reading, math, computer science skills, and much more!

My Project

Our third grade students are so grateful for the opportunity to have iPads in our classrooms, but we have found situations where keypads to go with our iPads are much needed. We use a computer skill learning program and it would be very beneficial to have keyboards to use it. In third grade we also create a lot of projects using PowerPoint and Word. These projects can be created on the iPads, but would be created much easier if we had keyboards. Also, next year our third grade students will take the Smarter Balanced Assessment and keyboards will make test taking much smoother. With our iPads we don't want our students to loose out on typing and we want to make use of our iPads the best we can.

Receiving our iPads was a dream come true for our students.

Having keyboards for our iPads would be like icing on their dream! These keyboards will allow my students to do everything they want and need to do on their iPads.

Mrs. Melissa Smith
Grades 3-5
    More than half of 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

    This project will reach 105 students.

    78 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Logitech corded keyboard for ipad Lightning • CDW-G $65.17 6 $391.02

Materials cost

$391.02

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$426.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.33

Total project goal

$502.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $502.22

64 Donors

-$440.07

Donations toward project cost

-$409.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.03

match offer

-$21.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.15

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$41.15

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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