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Ms. Emerson from Bronx, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Emerson's classroom raised $276

3rd Grade Media Marvels Making Social Change

My students need a camcorder to create video projects in literacy, social studies, and all subjects!

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Ms. Emerson Pharos Academy Charter School
Bronx, NY Grades 3-5

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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

As my students become community members in our classroom, we will work on how to be a positive community member in the world. We all have the responsibility to make improvements in our neighborhoods. Using multimedia is perfect for my students as they make change in artistic ways!

My students are a dynamic group of 3rd graders in the South Bronx.

The school possesses a mixture of Hispanic and Black students. In our arts-integrated school, we have a group of incredibly energetic and enthusiastic students. In a school with a strong focus on academics and attending college, I want my students to remember where they are coming from and how they can make positive change in the world wherever they go. Many are Spanish speakers and receive English Language support. Currently, the school is K-8 and growing into K-12 over the next several years. 79% of our students are eligible for free and reduced lunch, which is often used as an indicator of poverty. However, our test scores have deemed us one of the 4 "high performing" schools in the Bronx according to New York State.

My Project

While the camcorder would be used in a multitude of ways by our 3rd graders, there are two ways that stand out. For one, the students will use it as a significant piece in social action projects geared towards bettering our immediate community. The power of media is growing and students have the ability to partake in that. This coming year students will search their neighborhood for something they want to improve. Using the camcorder they can document it and form an action plan of how to make social change. It is intended that the project and how it is used specifically come from the students and their passions. Given that we are also an arts-integrated school, the art projects possibly with a camcorder in the room multiply! The camcorder will be used to strengthen literacy skills by creating vocabulary-based skits, which can then be recorded on the camcorder. These various projects lend themselves perfectly to a donated camcorder and to the creativity the students possess!!

The camcorder is critical in the classroom given where we are situated in technology development.

Using computers and technology is a skill ALL children need to have going forward. Those fast growing areas are the future and possessing media literacy will be pertinent to the students' overall success. The social change the students can create when a camcorder is placed in their hands is invaluable. Nothing is more important than showing these young scholars that change and power are possible.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

50 students impacted 3 donors
Ms. Emerson Pharos Academy Charter School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Bronx, NY 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

50 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
FLIP VIDEO ULTRAHD CAMCORDER -- Flip Video. Camcorders; UltraHD, White • Quill $199.99 1 $199.99

Materials cost

$199.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$239.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.86

Total project goal

$275.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $275.85

2 Donors

-$133.00

Donations toward project cost

-$120.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.00

match offer

-$137.92

Match offer toward project cost

-$119.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.93

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.93

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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