My students need a DVD player, a digital camcorder, and mini DVDs to capture my 2nd grade scientists hard at work now and to come. In addition to the previous mentioned items a program to manage and edit digital recordings would help us publish our work.
$492 goal
This project expired on March 1, 2010.
This project expired on March 1, 2010.
I have the privilege to work with and inspire 2nd graders in one of Oregon’s tough socio-economic areas. I teach my kids to envision themselves as something much great than they have ever though possible. You'll often hear me in my classroom giving directions like, "Now Writers, finish you last thought", or currently something like "Meteorologists I we are going to take a weather walk outside, observe today’s weather with your 4 sense ( we don’t use taste in our science class) and be prepared to forecast once we get inside!”
During science time our students experience many phenomenal things like capturing amazing cloud coverage, balancing paper crawfish cutouts, and engineering luge like tracks to monitor motion but there is no way for us to document our findings. Modern forms of media to document our results would add a sense of professionalism because we can put student work into a digital portfolio.
Our school has been written off by many but for those in our learning community that drive instruction, we are seeking to prove ourselves among the best. Not only to other k-8 programs in the state but nationally. Modern equipment would take our instruction to new levels and make us more competitive. Competitive in the sense of attracting school aged students in our school’s boundaries which has become one of my school’s leading statistics – highest attrition rate, lowest capture rate for a community school.
That means families that have the chance to choose what school is best for their students are simply not choosing us. We need your assistance to become competitive and modern technology would send us toward the front. Our second graders are able to be the next doctors, engineers, meteorologists or Nobel Peace Prize winners like George Washington Carver who created over 300 different uses for the peanut. Thank you for helping our second graders become life long scientists.
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
50 students impacted
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