My students need an LCD projector, an HP printer, and a printer cartridge so that they can print out the reports and essays they will complete using our new technology!
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I have a small SMART Board I inherited from a school downstairs in our building, a wonderful projector screen I found on E-Bay last year, a set of Power Point presentations on everything from the Big Bang Theory to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and no projector to show all these wonderful technological things to my students!! I teach 10th, 11th, and 12th grade science at the only all-girls public school in my district, and because we are a small school with a tiny budget, I am the only Physics and Earth Science teacher in my school. Last year, a friend with a job in corporate America was able to secure an LCD projector for me to use in my room, and I did almost daily, but this year it was needed at his job and I was left without one. As a science teacher, I rely on technology to demonstrate the processes scientists use in their daily work, not to mention to show pictures of their amazing findings.
My job as a science teacher in my school is about so much more than teaching science. I have a unique opportunity to influence the most under-represented group of Americans in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; Minority Females. Because all of my students identify as either Latino or Black, and because my school services only females, it is essential that we take advantage of this opportunity to open their eyes to STEM careers. However, because my school has a very small budget, is young, and has little to no laboratory equipment, the dream of introducing these ladies to STEM careers sometimes seems far off. It is important to outfit my classroom with technological basics, so that my students are exposed to these advancements, and I work hard to do so. But the loss of my projector has set me back quite a bit! I need this tool to demonstrate visually and analytically the various areas of the sciences I teach.
I have requested a small LCD projector and a printer for my room because these are the "missing links", or the "connecting wires", needed to bring my classroom into the 21st century. The LCD Projector will allow me to use my SMART board, which in turn will completely revolutionize the pace and organization of my lessons and lead to higher student achievement. It will allow me to show electronic versions of lab experiments where we don't have the materials to do them hands-on, and to show pictures from Hubble and SEM microscopes to make science come alive. The printer will allow the students to print out their lab reports, study guides, worksheets, and other projects they type up at the computer on my desk, and will save endless amounts of class time otherwise spent running back and forth to the office to print out materials. In short, it will make my classroom a tiny mirror of the technologically advanced world I want my students to be a part of in their futures.
For many of my students, this is the last chance to influence their lives and help lead them towards science and technology careers in college. Further, for those who choose to pursue these careers, it is the last chance to give them the basic building blocks so that they will be successful once they do enter those college classrooms. If a student has never seen a picture of an exploding Super Nova, or the surface of the sun, or the quarks that make up a proton, they are at a significant disadvantage when they enter their Freshman Physics class in college. If they have never bothered to type a lab report because they had nowhere to print it, are they really getting an equal chance at success? The reality is, we live in a technologically reliant and savvy society, and I believe that should be a part of my students daily experience in the classroom.
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