Earth Day: Exploring & Celebrating With Virtual Reality Field Trips
My students need various virtual reality viewers, cellphone devices, and a digital camera to engage in Virtual Reality Digital Earth Day.
$2,163 goal
This project expired on August 10, 2018.
This project expired on August 10, 2018.
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 are in sixth, seventh, and eight grade. All of my students have special needs and are in the lowest 25% of their grade level. Their various disabilities range from Learning Disability in Reading and math coupled with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), to Intellectually Disabled, to Autism Spectrum Disorder. More than three‑quarters of students are from low‑income households. Regardless of their hardships, they all show a desire to learn and aspire to be successful. As their teacher, I provide them with specialized instruction in mathematics language arts, reading, writing, U.S History, and essential social skills that are critical for long-term success.
My students need Virtual Reality Headsets and refurbished cell phones for an Earth Day tour around the world.
I need to do all I can during school hours to engage, motivate, and inspire my students to learn, so they can become well-developed, independent, and productive young men and women. Please help me provide my students with a fun an engaging way to appreciate the world without leaving the classroom.
My Project
For students with various learning disabilities, preferable learning styles and modalities, showing works better than telling. Students learn better, and retain information longer when they are taught through tasks that are based on visuals such as tutorials, apps, and videos. For students with disabilities, Virtual Reality gives the opportunity to travel outside of the classroom to places that they would not normally experience first hand.
Taking a Virtual Reality filed trip on Earth Day, will connect Special Needs Students to nature and environment in a fun, safe, and free of limitations.
My goal is to take my students around the world and experience nature in a whole new way. With the aid of the virtual reality viewers and smartphones, students will have options of devices based on level of comfort and knowledge, have control over the amount of stimuli they are presented with, be able to modify their experience to meet their own auditory and visual cues, and have a valuable opportunity to experience the environment and never leave the classroom. Students will virtually explore a forest via the UPM Forest Life, and create digital presentation of their experiences. The digital cameras will make learning more interesting for students by taking pictures of completed projects, activities, that will be shown during parent conferences and open houses. This project will not be short lived. These resources will enhance our learning about environmental issues, geography, and will evolve into on-going interactive lessons. Students will experience nature and environment using programs and apps such as the NY Times virtual reality, Google Expeditions, and PBS Nature, while integrating technology into our daily classroom routine. This is part 2 of my Earth Day project. In part 1, I am requesting various whiteboards and technology that will assist us with going paperless for a month.
Apple iPhone 6S 64GB GSM Unlocked, Silver (Certified Refurbished)
• Amazon Business
$264.99
2
$529.98
Ricoh THETA V 360 4K Spherical VR Camera with Power Bank and Tripod Bundle
• Amazon Business
$396.99
1
$396.99
Ricoh Theta S Digital Camera (Black)
• Amazon Business
$296.99
1
$296.99
Nokia 2 - 8GB - Unlocked Phone (AT&T/T-Mobile) - 5" Screen - White (U.S. Warranty)
• Amazon Business
$99.00
2
$198.00
5.5" Fusion5 Gen II Dual Sim-Free Unlocked 4G Android Mobile Phone 6.0 Marshmallow Fingerprint Sensor Touch Screen Smartphone
• Amazon Business
$79.97
2
$159.94
Pocket 360 - Compact Virtual Reality Viewer for iPhones and Android smartphones - WWGC Certified by Google (Yellow)
• Amazon Business
$9.99
10
$99.90
Homido Mini Virtual Reality Glasses for Smartphone Foldable VR Headset Compliant with iPhone & Android Cell Phone Vr Games and 3D Movies
• Amazon Business
$9.98
10
$99.80
Materials cost
$1,781.60
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$26.72
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,838.32
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$324.41
Total project goal
$2,162.73
Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.
DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Michles and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.
