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Ms. Aiello from Oakland, CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Photographs as a Teaching Platform

My students need a digital camera, a photo printer and photo paper.

  • $1,056 goal

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I am a fourth year Kindergarten teacher in a low-income public school in Oakland, Ca. Over 90% of our student population qualifies for the federally funded breakfast/lunch program. I teach a variety of students from a multitude of different cultures: Philipino, African American, Chinese, and Hispanic. I am a photographer by nature and use photographs and visual aids daily to document and teach across the curriculum. I also use photographs to show the process of a lot of our projects so that the students can go back and see all the steps leading up to a completed project and their successes and challenges along the way.

Help, OUR DIGITAL CAMERA WAS STOLEN. Over the summer we had a theft and our classroom camera was stolen. I have been using my personal camera in the classroom but would like to have one for the students and me to use on a daily basis. We document our daily life in the classroom with the camera and use the photos as research and reflection about certain units in our class. Currently we have discovered caterpillars in our garden and want to document their life cycle! (teachable moment!!!) We need a camera for photos and a printer to print out our photos of this process and MANY MORE TO COME!!!

We need a digital camera, photo printer and paper to document daily life in the classroom, projects, science, art, our specific English Language Arts Units, and Math. This project will allow the students to look back and reflect on the processes of projects, daily life in the classroom and school, see how science, math, art and language are a part of our daily existence. It will benefit future Kindergarten students and it will get students to look at their world from a whole new perspective!

You will make it possible for my students to see how the world works! It will enable them to see the beauty and learning processes around them and give them a greater appreciation of their environments.

Ms. Aiello Emerson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
HP PHOTOSMART PRO B8850 PRINTER -- HP Photosmart Pro B8850 Photo Printer • Quill $494.98 1 $494.98
HP 110 SERIES GLOSS PHOTO VALUE PACK 4X6, US -- HP 110 Series Photo Value Pack • Quill $42.29 1 $42.29
HP ADVANCED PHOTO PAPER, 8.5X11 GLOSSY, 50 SHEET -- HP Advanced Photo Paper; Glossy, 8-1/2x11" • Quill $21.86 1 $21.86
DIGITAL CAMERA -- Sony Digital Cameras; Cyber-Shot W220, Silver • Quill $161.99 1 $161.99

Materials cost

$721.12

Vendor shipping charges

 $72.11

Sales tax

 $52.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$865.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$189.95

Total project goal

$1,055.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,055.29

1 Donor

-$1,055.29

Donations toward project cost

-$865.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$189.95

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