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Ms. Deimel from Philadelphia, PA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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An Overhead Projector: An Essential Factor In Good Teaching

My students need an overhead projector so that I may effectively model worksheets, graphic organizers, and more for them.

  • $347 goal

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My students need your help- badly. I teach 7th and 8th grade English at a small K-8 elementary school in a high-need inner-city community. While the school staff is great, we just can't get all the materials our kids need from the funding that we get.

I have bright students and I really want to be able to teach them effectively, and a key tool for doing so is being able to model for students how to fill in worksheets, graphic organizers, and take notes. I have attempted to move kids through a guided reading worksheet and students were unable to follow on their worksheets as I merely read questions aloud.

Having an overhead projector would completely alleviate this problem. My students would easily be able to follow where I am on any worksheet or organizer that we are completing together, and this will allow them to learn better to complete their own. Additionally, transparencies are resources that can be used again and again; while I could copy some worksheets or organizers onto chart paper, this would be a serious waste of resources. However, I can't use transparencies until I have a projector to put them on; this one piece of technology would truly revolutionize learning in my classroom.

Your help will ensure that my students receive the best education possible. They are smart kids and I know they will be able to learn everything the state requires (and more!), but they cannot do that without the proper tools. An overhead projector is one tool that is essential to have in an English classroom; with your help, my students can have this tool so that they can become better readers and writers this year.

Ms. Deimel Tanner G Duckrey Elementary School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

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

65 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
OVERHEAD PROJECTOR 3000 LUMEN -- Apollo 3000 Lumens Overhead Projector • Quill Corporation $224.99 1 $224.99

Materials cost

$224.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.50

Sales tax

 $13.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$284.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.34

Total project goal

$346.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $346.34

3 Donors

-$334.12

Donations toward project cost

-$284.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.22

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 $0.00

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