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Mr. R. Ballard from Petersburg VA is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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History With iPad!

Help me give my students more visual and technology usage in the classroom with History. With a class iPad this would help us with many projects and showing my students alot of visuals involving history.

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In Petersburg, Va our students are not always given the best but we as a staff we make it work all the time. There are a lot of visual learners in this generation and with an iPad as a teacher I can do so much to allow the students to understand their history but fun and engaging ways of presenting it through an iPad and it’s features. This is my first year teacher I have tried a lot of different methods in engaging my students such as blending history with today’s culture. Today’s culture involves technology and I have discovered that can be very beneficial in the classroom.

Growing up in Detroit we didn’t have much resources so I understand.

We had to learn the old fashion way which I’m thankful for everyday but times changes and our scholars are changing as well. We must be able to adapt to different learning methods for our students. My goal is to make history fun again for all students because history is for all of us and it can be very fun! I want my students to learn everything from laws, wars to their rights as humans in such a trouble time. I hope someone or a few can help me at this time to achieve such a goal of making history fun for all students in Petersburg that takes my class!

Thank you

Mr. R. Ballard
Never Before Funded Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple - 10.9-Inch iPad - Latest Model - (10th Generation) with Wi-Fi - 64GB - Yellow • Best Buy Education $449.00 1 $449.00

Materials cost

$449.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$485.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.72

Total project goal

$571.46

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