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Ms. Ormsbee from Staten Island, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Kickstart Critical Thinking With STEM

My students need the Lakeshore Learning Stem Bundle, sixteen headphones, and two headphone storage units.

  • $920 goal

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My Students

I teach in a diverse Title One school where the children mainly rely on their teachers for information. My students live in an impoverished neighborhood where each of them receive free lunches. Within my classroom, there is a mixture of students with disabilities and general education students.

My students come to school each day with a thirst for knowledge and the need to feel successful.

These are children with attention deficits, speech and language issues, as well as, reading disorders. My students struggle, but they desperately want to learn. They want to understand and successfully apply their new skills.

My Project

The Lakeshore Learning Stem Bundle and headphones will open new doors for my students. The bundle will bring aspects of our reading curriculum alive by connecting the scientific texts to hands-on activities, like designing a house to withstanding an earthquake. The headphones will allow all types of learners access to the texts by listening to them on the computer. They will also be able to research a variety of scientific topics covered in the stem bundle and listen to those texts being read aloud to them. The headphone holders will allow the students to organize the headphones in an orderly way with no tangled wires.

Katherine Patterson once wrote, “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Something that will stretch their imaginations-something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” Help engage my students with hands-on activities and challenge them to become critical thinkers!

Ms. Ormsbee PS 13 M L Lindemeyer Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Staten Island, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

65 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KT6343 - STEM Bundle - Gr. 4-5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $370.35 1 $370.35
FN2924CX - Listening Center Headphones - Set of 8 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $115.00 2 $230.00
GG819 - Read-Along Storage Unit Only • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 2 $139.98

Materials cost

$740.33

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$781.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.90

Total project goal

$919.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $919.33

1 Donor

-$322.61

Donations toward project cost

-$305.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.89

Matching donations from our partners

-$559.66

Match offers toward project cost

-$475.71

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$37.06

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 $0.00

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