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Mrs. Sovine from Hope Mills, NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flipped Math

My students need 5 laptops to access the Internet. They will use them in groups to go online to view introduction videos. This type of scaffolding will preset learning.

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My Students

John Dewey said, " if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." My challenge is to bring as much of tomorrow into the classroom today so that my students are not being left behind.

Our year round school has over 700 students.

This is twice the average size of schools in our district. Because of this, we average 1 computer to every 3 to 4 students. Of those students, I teach 36 of them fourth grade math and science. Of those 36, 1 student demonstrated high proficiency, 3 demonstrated proficiency, 14 minimal level of proficiency, and 11 demonstrated below proficiency in math. The demographics are evenly distributed in makeup for racial diversity, sex, and social economics. About one-fourth of families are military connected with family members deployed overseas. One student lives with a grandfather. In addition, 8 students receive special education services for various reasons to include speech, autism, and cerebral palsy. My students are like other children with varied interests and backgrounds. They like pizza, ice cream, movies, and sports to include karate, soccer, and football.

My Project

These laptops will enable my students to take control of their learning. They will use the Internet to access educationally approved web sites with video math and science lessons. By having students view lessons prior to classroom instruction, they learn the basic concepts, which allows them to spend more time with the teacher for higher order thinking activities. they have more time to engage in activities the encourage application of the skills. In addition, since more students will be engaged in activities applying their learned knowledge, I will have more time to assist those students needing additional time to learn the basics. Through this deeper application of knowledge, students gain a deeper understanding of content which leads to mastery learning. Another thing students learn is that learning is more than just listening to the teacher. By using the Internet, students become adept at using outside resources to learn, thus leading to the idea of life-long learning.

Do you remember when Charlie Brown was listening to his teacher and all he heard was "wa, wa, waaaa, wa?" I'm sure many of my students feel the same way.

Using the laptops to learn will change this feeling. Students need the immediate one to one experience that on-line learning provides. Students will learn based on their needs and not have to sit through lessons they already know. By using the Internet to learn, they can take charge and become responsible for what and when they learn.

Mrs. Sovine Education V. Baldwin Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Hope Mills, NC 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

36 students impacted 39donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lenovo ThinkPad X140e 20BL 11 6 E1 2500 Windows 7 Pro 64 bit 8 Pro • CDW-G $491.78 5 $2,458.90

Materials cost

$2,458.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $191.79

3rd party payment processing fee

$36.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,717.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$479.57

Total project goal

$3,197.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,197.14

32 Donors

-$1,819.49

Donations toward project cost

-$1,689.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$130.42

match offer

-$1,210.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$1,028.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$181.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$167.65

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 $0.00

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