Help me give my students Chromebooks to bring their research and writing into the twenty-first century!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Jess's classroom raised $2,334
This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
My Students
The students at my school are creative, passionate and curious. My school serves a diverse population and is part of a diversity pilot project in NYC. We strive to maintain a racial, ethnic, and economic mix because we believe that integration and equal access benefit everyone. Students with special learning needs are fully integrated into the classroom, and everyone's learning benefits as a result.
The kids in my class this year are bursting with questions about the world around them.
Anything they hear or read about, they want to know more. They have a wide range of learning needs and I want to make learning fully accessible to each and every one of them!
These kids care a lot about social justice and making the world a welcoming place for everyone. They are passionate about topics such as sustainability, politics, school integration, and feminism, to name a few! Each year they dig deep into two big integrated units of study that combine social studies, science, reading, and writing. In fourth grade, they study New York City and think hard about ways to improve it for future generations. They are the change we want to see in the world!
My Project
Picture this: a classroom of fourth-graders, hard at work, bent over Chromebooks, busily researching about the First Nations people who first inhabited New York City. An excited hum pervades as children exchange ideas, find new facts and race to jot down information in their research notebooks. This is my classroom, hard at work on their nonfiction research projects for the Eastern Woodland Museum.
Chromebooks will give us access to current information that students need for their research projects.
With the facts they learn from the Chromebooks (and Google), they will build museum exhibits and publish creative museum placards about a topic of their choosing (such as lacrosse, dugout canoes, or medicinal herbs). This is truly personal education driven by student interests and curiosity.
Fourth grade is all about New York City history in my classroom. We engage in our study through reading, trips, learning from visiting experts, building models, role-playing and finally, through writing. Learning about historical events is grounded in a deep study of the lives of the various peoples who lived in and around New York. The study then goes on to examine the interactions between these different groups of people and the impact they had on each other. In the last few months of the school year, students use all they have learned in reading, writing and social studies to create an original character who might actually have lived in or around New Amsterdam in the 1600s. They incorporate historically accurate details, dialogue and information to write a series of letters that tell a simple story that teaches about the time period. The use of a Chromebook to complete this project greatly enhances my students' ability to organize, revise and edit their work.
More than a third 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
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