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. McCollough's Classroom Edit display name

  • Forest Hills Middle School
  • Wilson, NC
  • Nearly all 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. McCollough 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. McCollough's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. McCollough 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. McCollough can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/5714301 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
One of the big pushes in academics is STEAM or STEM for students. My special needs students greatly enjoy hands-on learning and the school district I work for purchased LEGO Education kits for several exceptional needs classrooms to help the students with their story writing skills and programming skills. The tablets we have are outdated and no longer allow LEGO Education apps to work on them. We need new iPads to access this curriculum. My students were very disappointed last year when we discovered the tablets no longer allowed updates for our LEGO kits, limiting their hands-on learning in science and language arts. In language arts to get the students to work together more effectively and help with their writing skills, I would have them make scenes and type out what was happening to tell a story. This helped the students that struggled to form complete sentences to get their ideas down then build a sentence to tell their story. In science, we spend a great deal of time discussing types of energy. I found the students learned about the different types of energy when they were learning and using the terms by building things with LEGO and applying the knowledge of different types of energy to the project.

About my class

One of the big pushes in academics is STEAM or STEM for students. My special needs students greatly enjoy hands-on learning and the school district I work for purchased LEGO Education kits for several exceptional needs classrooms to help the students with their story writing skills and programming skills. The tablets we have are outdated and no longer allow LEGO Education apps to work on them. We need new iPads to access this curriculum. My students were very disappointed last year when we discovered the tablets no longer allowed updates for our LEGO kits, limiting their hands-on learning in science and language arts. In language arts to get the students to work together more effectively and help with their writing skills, I would have them make scenes and type out what was happening to tell a story. This helped the students that struggled to form complete sentences to get their ideas down then build a sentence to tell their story. In science, we spend a great deal of time discussing types of energy. I found the students learned about the different types of energy when they were learning and using the terms by building things with LEGO and applying the knowledge of different types of energy to the project.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":5714301,"teacherId":5714301,"teacherName":"Ms. McCollough","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5714301_orig.jpg?crop=1893,1893,x1370,y261&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1572818790529","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21251810,"followAbout":"Ms. McCollough's projects","teacherVerify":1099501917,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. McCollough","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/5714301","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=5714301","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":12},"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.