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Ms. Faison from Jersey City, NJ is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing Innovation Into the 21st Century Classroom

Help me give my students have a memorable, exciting, and interactive year by helping them to receive MERGE Virtual and Augmented Reality Headsets and tablets.

  • $782 goal

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My Students

I teach a culturally diverse learning group of 14-15 year old urban youth at a local high school in Jersey City, NJ. My students come from an intellectually diverse background as well, but their all united in one common trait, curiosity. Because these urban high school students attend a school that aims to provide a STEAM education and because many students are already heavily motivated by performing activities involving technology, the goal for my class is for students to engage in scientific research and data collection using technology. As a science teacher it is my duty to provide lessons that will serve to satisfy student curiosity, student needs, and, at the same time, student learning via the sciences.

The high school students I teach desire a fun and technologically advanced way to learn science subjects even more.

They are heavily video game and computer science-driven, which indicates that they definitely, as a whole, represent the 21st century learner in America whose proclivity is almost 100% computer technology. In turn, the high school students I teach need an appropriate education that reflects this and that involves exploration and challenge.

My Project

The Next Generation Science Standards indicate that high school science students need to engage in three-dimensional learning, which involves the elements of scientific inquiry and, very often, integration of technology. The problem is that for the fairly new high school where I teach that has only been in existence for the last five years, the school has not had much time to accumulate technology or science equipment, other than having some computers that students need to share, some test tubes and beakers, and a classroom whiteboard. On a national scale, the high school youth where I teach, are also losing momentum in regards to interest in science due to the lack of making lessons come to life and really making lessons relevant to their world. Finally, our high school is declining in annual school enrollment because of these factors. In turn, if my students are permitted to receive MERGE Virtual and Augmented Reality Headsets and if they are supported by the purchase of Fire 7" Tablets from a good samaritan, this will definitely push them into an exciting, positive, and interactive reality, in which they will come to love appreciate science and technology the way they should.

Nevertheless, the MERGE Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Headsets will allow students to create virtual 3-D models of atoms and molecules.

The headsets will also allow students to play scientific games and go on virtual field trips. The requested Amazon Fire 7" Tablets will endorse student scientific investigations via the program Google Science Notebook. Using the notebook students will measure during lab investigations using virtual temperature and conductivity probes and they will record and graph data using the virtual notebook, as well.

Ms. Faison
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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MERGE VR Headset - Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Headset, Play Educational Games and Watch 360 Degree Videos, STEM Tool for Classroom and Home, Works with iPhone and Android (Moon Grey) • Amazon Business $29.99 12 $359.88
Amazon - Fire 7 2019 release - 7'- Tablet - 16GB - Black • Best Buy Education $53.06 5 $265.30

Materials cost

$625.18

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$664.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.28

Total project goal

$781.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $781.84

2 Donors

-$522.00

Donations toward project cost

-$443.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.30

match offer

-$259.84

Match offer toward project cost

-$220.86

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.98

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