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Mr. Valdes's classroom raised $611

iCommunity. . . Podcasts Through My Neighborhood And Beyond

My students need 6 iPod Shuffles to share their community podcasts.

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Mr. Valdes Joseph Le Conte Middle School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 6-8

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.

Take an audio tour of your neighborhood and realize the history and community impact your neighbors and store fronts have on your environment and school surroundings. That's what my 6th grade Special Education students who attend a high-need community in California propose to create. The tour doesn't stop there. . . what if future classes of 6th graders were able to listen to podcasts of what students in their prior years learned while in the same math and science classes?

Investment in your community can sometimes be difficult because you don't know where to start. My students and I will take walking field trips around our school, take detailed notes, make podcasts from those notes and create exciting audio tours of their neighborhood. To get a little more ambitious, our vision is to have students then check out the iPods with the podcasts and take walking audio tours around their neighborhoods with their families. It's a project that promotes being active in your community while sharing and spending time with the family.

Having six iPod shuffles to loan out will not only be quite exciting for the students but also a way that they can share projects they have created with their families. They can actually take the project they made and have their parents listen to it.

Your help will ensure that my students have an opportunity to be creative while at the same time learning about how important it is to be active in their community. Your help will also offer them chances to spend time with their families that they might not have had before.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

23 students impacted 7 donors
Mr. Valdes Joseph Le Conte Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

23 students impacted 7donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
iPod shuffle 2GB (Pink) • Woodwind & Brasswind $69.00 3 $207.00
iPod shuffle 2GB (Green) • Woodwind & Brasswind $69.00 3 $207.00

Materials cost

$414.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $41.40

Sales tax

 $30.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$500.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.89

Total project goal

$610.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $610.52

4 Donors

-$305.25

Donations toward project cost

-$250.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.94

match offer

-$305.27

Match offer toward project cost

-$250.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.95

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 $0.00

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