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Ms. Caluza from San Francisco, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Focusing Students With a Document Camera

My students need a document camera.

  • $612 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My class is populated with diverse learners whom all have learning disabilities. A majority of the students have auditory processing difficulties, which makes it hard to take in information just by hearing it. They do much better to see everything they learn about.

An overhead projector, standard fair for an elementary classroom, can only display photocopied or hand written transparencies. At my school, that means no color photos and distortions when looking at selections from books. My students do not get a rich experience when interacting with this material.

A document camera would allow me to display for my entire class, using our existing CRT television, full color 2D (books, brochures, photos and maps) and 3D (rocks, leaves) specimens. I could set an actual quartz specimen next to an article in a science textbook and zoom in while telling them about it.

This tool will allow my students to see the world and learn in new ways. I can reach all of my students at once with engaging, true to life images that will stick with them. They will keep those images longer than the plain overhead projector images we have today.

Ms. Caluza El Dorado Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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San Francisco, CA View local requests

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

11 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Buhl VP20M Document Camera- - --*Comments* • Teachers' School Supply Inc. $415.00 1 $415.00

Materials cost

$415.00

Vendor shipping charges

$41.50

Sales tax

$30.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$501.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.15

Total project goal

$611.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$611.96

11 Donors

-$579.04

Donations toward project cost

-$501.81

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.23

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$32.92

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$0.00

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