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Mrs. Olberding from Manhattan, KS is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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CD Players Are the Past! MP3 Is Now!

My students need an Apple iPod Touch to use in their listening center to listen and respond to literature during center work. The Belkin splitter allows 2-3 students to use at a time!

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My Students

My students arrive everyday with bright smiles and warm hugs everyday despite the many challenges they face beyond our classroom walls. Our students come from a diverse background with over 60% of students eligible for a free or reduced lunch. Many miss out on the opportunity to be read to at home despite their deep desire to soak in all kinds of literature.

My students love books!

Their engagement can be seen daily during a classroom read aloud where they can barely contain their excitement to share a text-to-self connection or inform me when I read a sight word. I try to provide them with a text-rich environment to help close the gap that can come from lack of exposure to the literary elements needed to become great readers!

My Project

Technology is constantly changing and at a rapid pace. We are requesting need an Apple iPod Touch and splitter to use in their listening center to listen and respond to literature during center work. My students have grown up in the iPad Generation and need very minimal direction on operating one! Many times they end up teaching me a new thing or two each year. I want to incorporate a listening center using a product that many of them are familiar with, but with the ever decreasing funding education sees each year, purchasing is always challenging or non-existent.

The students I teach need more exposure to literature and to being read to.

Listening centers, especially ones that utilize current technology help support all the learners in a classroom. My students will not only benefit from listening to a read aloud, but will also be able to demonstrate their knowledge of content lessons taught during our CORE reading block. Having this technology also allows my students to complete other center activities such as a Listen & Learn activity where students increase their listening skills as they listen to the directions while completing the task directed.

Use of a headphone splitter allows for use of one Apple Ipod Touch among a group of students, which helps keep the cost of equipment down, yet provides students with an engaging, yet purposeful task.

Mrs. Olberding Northview Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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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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

18 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple iPod Touch 32GB Blue MKHV2LL/A (6th Generation) • Amazon Business $244.95 1 $244.95
Belkin RockStar 5-Jack Multi Headphone Audio Splitter (Blue) (F8Z274btBLU) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89

Materials cost

$254.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$306.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.11

Total project goal

$360.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $360.74

8 Donors

-$305.74

Donations toward project cost

-$259.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.86

match offer

-$55.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$46.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.25

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 $0.00

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