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Mrs. Frederick from Charlotte NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Empowering Fourth Grade Girls Through Technology

My students need a multimedia projector in order to facilitate maximum learning for visual and auditory learners.

  • $675 goal

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My Students

Title 1 (high poverty) schools are constantly faced with the challenge of limited resources and technology. The height of technology in any classroom at my school is between one and three computers to be shared among an average of 25 students.

This will be the first year my school has implemented an all girls, single gender classroom.

The fourth grade girls who will be in my class this fall (2010-2011) come from various cultural, economic and racial backgrounds. My goal is to empower them as learners and build their self-esteem by studying positive female role models both past and present and implementing strategies in the classroom that lend themselves to the unique learning styles of girls. We will be working on creating a strong classroom community that fosters cooperative learning and that will ultimately send them to fifth grade as independent, self-motivated young women leaders.

My Project

Because of the high-poverty background of many of my students, I am often faced with the challenge of filling an information gap. A great number of my students come into fourth grade lacking the background knowledge to fully comprehend and process new material; for example, while completing a reading unit on Karen Hesse's "Out of the Dust," none of my students knew what the Great Depression was or its impact on their own and history. As a teacher, it isn't enough to present students with books and worksheets. By having technology like a multimedia projector in my classroom, I will be able to make faster and fuller life-to-text connections and aid struggling learners with a resource for engaging in new material.

Each year my students complete a service project to teach them the importance of giving back to their community and their world.

They understand and appreciate what it means to give without receiving. Donations towards this projector will not only allow us a resource we wouldn't have access to otherwise, but will put my students on the receiving end of a network of people who care about them and their future.

Mrs. Frederick
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EPSON EX21 MULTIMEDIA PROJECTOR -- EPSON. EX21 Digital LCD Multimedia Projector • Quill $499.99 1 $499.99

Materials cost

$499.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $39.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$586.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.64

Total project goal

$674.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $674.13

15 Donors

-$670.68

Donations toward project cost

-$586.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.19

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.45

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