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Ms. Sears from Burns, WY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Tantalizing Teaching Tablets

My students need three Amazon Fire tablets to use in the classroom during reading centers for developing QR code skills, watching Brainpop Jr, and much more.

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My Students

We are a typical Title I school set in a rural, farming town in Wyoming. I want my students to love learning and be engaged while also being prepared for the world outside. Technology is not the entire answer, but it is a great tool for learning!

My students are bright, funny kids who are eager to learn.

Most live on farms or ranches. Being a Title I school, we have a majority with socio-economic challenges. Technology exposure is limited sometimes, but I'd like our students to have the same advantages as the big town schools. We have a Computer Lab, but we have no iPads or tablets in our school. I have been using my own personal iPad in the classroom, but it has been difficult for the students to get the full effect of the learning when having to share it and play a game or scan QR code movies with 3-4 other students.

My Project

We would use these tablets during our two hour Reading Centers. Each group of 3-4 students would have access to a tablet for 20 minutes. Some days we would use them for QR code scanning projects where we learn about various Science and Social Studies facts and ideas. Other times the students would use them for online apps such as Brainpop Jr. which is an app that covers all educational areas that coincide with our curriculum or Tumblebooks which is a story reading site. The students could use the tablets to do their research projects on animals. To be honest, the sky is the limit. With additional technology that each individual student can use, the possibilities go through the roof!

My students' exposure to the real world is sometimes limited to the rural Wyoming ranching lifestyle.

I want to give them the opportunity to see the places we talk about. I want them to have headphones on and be lost in the moment of learning, not distracted by working in a group of chatty First Graders. I want my students to have all the advantages of other First Graders across the country in bigger cities when it comes to the perks of technology.

Ms. Sears Burns Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Burns, WY View local requests 16 students impacted 7donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fire Kids Edition, 7" Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB, Blue Kid-Proof Case • Amazon Business $79.99 3 $239.97

Materials cost

$239.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.28

Total project goal

$321.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.85

6 Donors

-$160.92

Donations toward project cost

-$136.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.14

match offer

-$160.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$136.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.14

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 $0.00

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