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Learning About Our Community and Government With Photography

My students need 2 digital cameras, photo paper, a digital picture frame, journal prompts, guides to DC, and a printer.

  • $917 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 Students

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -- Dr. Seuss.

My students are children of immigrant families who do not have many resources.

Our school is a 'Title 1 school' where 95% of the population is receiving free and reduced lunches. The students understand that their families have limited resources, but they don't understand "yet" that one person's voice can make a difference at home and in the community.

My Project

My students need cameras and associated materials for a year-long photo project that will help them understand their community, and how they can impact or change their community. Students' will journal through photography about their community during a nine month project that will wrap up in a letter writing campaign to policy makers. My students walk to school and they pass liquor stores; sometimes they encounter an occasional person who has had too much to drink, on their way to and from school. They often see broken beer bottles on our school grounds. These kids live in our nation's Capital, but why is their community so different than that where our President lives just a few miles away? This social studies project will enable students' to learn about local government and the government of Washington D.C. Students will learn to advocate for themselves and the community that they live in. They will use the digital cameras to take pictures of their community. We will print the pictures and use the pictures as an inspiration for journaling about our community. Our project will wrap up with a letter writing campaign to our local politicians in order to make a difference in policy changes that will affect the community.

If students cannot learn that they too can make a difference in their community, or schools, they will become apathetic.

I would like to empower them to think that they can be a catalyst for change and that it starts at home.

Ms. S. Bruce - Monroe Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Washington, DC View local requests 50 students impacted 41donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KODAK C182 DIGITAL CAMERA, RED -- Kodak Digital Cameras; EasyShare C182, Red • Quill $119.99 2 $239.98
KODAK G200 PHOTO PAPER KIT -- Kodak Photo Paper and Color Cartridge Kits; G200 • Quill $52.19 1 $52.19
KODAK EASYSHARE EX811 DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME -- Kodak EasyShare EX811 8" Digital Picture Frame • Quill $199.99 1 $199.99
JOURNAL PROMPTS, GRADES 1-3 -- The Mailbox 730 Journal Prompts; Grades 1-3 • Quill $13.04 1 $13.04
Kids Guide To Washington D.C. • AKJ Books $12.21 4 $48.84
Washington D.C.: A Scrapbook • AKJ Books $6.06 5 $30.30
COMPUTERS COMPUTER PRINTERS SNAP SHOT & PHOTO 8901076 • Best Buy $149.99 1 $149.99

Materials cost

$734.33

Vendor shipping charges

 $17.05

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$797.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$119.15

Total project goal

$916.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $916.54

36 Donors

-$916.54

Donations toward project cost

-$797.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.15

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