You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Heather Lundergan’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Hanson Park Elementary School
  • Chicago, IL
  • More than three‑quarters 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Heather Lundergan a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. Heather Lundergan's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Heather Lundergan a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Ms. Heather Lundergan can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/567065 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
The use of computers is a daily activity in my classroom, especially in math and reading. Using a laptop allows me to blast their lessons on a projector for the whole class to see as all of our lessons are interactive through computer programs. This allows me to teach and interact with the students at the same time. The problem is that with an antiquated desktop computer, the program loading and internet connection is so slow that students lose focus thereby losing all attention in the lesson and silliness ensues. It is so important to keep focus and attention once you have it. Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and...is distracting for many of my students who have focusing issues and they lose interest easily. By having a newer, faster laptop, students will be able to avoid the distraction and focus on increasing their learning! By donating to our project, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement. Students will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and not whether the computer is going to stall or not. Plus in this technology literate world, any interaction with updated technology will increase their skills as well as their desire to learn.

About my class

The use of computers is a daily activity in my classroom, especially in math and reading. Using a laptop allows me to blast their lessons on a projector for the whole class to see as all of our lessons are interactive through computer programs. This allows me to teach and interact with the students at the same time. The problem is that with an antiquated desktop computer, the program loading and internet connection is so slow that students lose focus thereby losing all attention in the lesson and silliness ensues. It is so important to keep focus and attention once you have it. Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and...is distracting for many of my students who have focusing issues and they lose interest easily. By having a newer, faster laptop, students will be able to avoid the distraction and focus on increasing their learning! By donating to our project, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement. Students will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and not whether the computer is going to stall or not. Plus in this technology literate world, any interaction with updated technology will increase their skills as well as their desire to learn.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":567065,"teacherId":567065,"teacherName":"Ms. Heather Lundergan","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp567065_orig.jpg?crop=555,555,x0,y35&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1567562796116","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21017769,"followAbout":"Ms. Heather Lundergan's projects","teacherVerify":-1305581242,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Heather Lundergan","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/567065","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=567065","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":4,"numSupporters":29},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.