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Ms. Shirman from East Boston, MA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Joyful Learning with Our Document Camera

My students need a document camera so that we can show off our writing and share texts and books.

  • $236 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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

Friendships, Greek gods, insects, immigrants, and activists...these are a few of the topics that my second graders and I will investigate this year. I am excited to guide them through these explorations and participate in their growth as readers, writers, artists, storytellers, and individuals.

Our goal as a bilingual second grade community is to foster our students' development linguistically, academically, culturally, socially, and emotionally.

We want our learning environment to be a supportive, collaborative, and engaging space, where students can develop their individual voices and have the confidence to share their thoughts and ideas.

As a teacher, I constantly grow and learn with my students, as together we explore new worlds, new skills, and new relationships. This wondrous process can occur anywhere and anytime, but with the necessary supports, it can be more fluid and constant, laying the foundations for lifelong engagement in learning and discovery.

My Project

My wonderful students love hearing new stories and learning new facts from great books. They love to engage in conversations and share their points-of-view about characters and events in these texts; however, it can be rather difficult at times to share texts and find all the important details when we use small-scale books. A document camera would allow us to zoom-in and enlarge important sections of text so that we can truly delve into our analyses and discover new layers of comprehension.

These amazing students also love to share their written work- from personal narratives of last weekend's events to an invented 13th labor for Hercules- and with a document camera they could not only read it aloud, but also show off their wonderful writing and magnificent art!

This will be an added incentive for students to truly focus on their writing and create beautiful, shareable work. Looking at their work under a microscope in this way will also help students model, learn, and inspire each other.

Ms. Shirman Mario Umana Academy Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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East Boston, MA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

45 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
IPEVO VZ-1 HD VGA/USB Dual-Mode Document Camera (CDVU-05IP) • Amazon Business $139.00 1 $139.00
Ipevo Scan Kit for P2V, Ziggi and VZ-1 USB Document Camera (MESX-07IP) • Amazon Business $29.00 1 $29.00

Materials cost

$168.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$200.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.39

Total project goal

$235.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $235.91

2 Donors

-$157.96

Donations toward project cost

-$134.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.69

match offer

-$77.94

Match offer toward project cost

-$66.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.69

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 $0.00

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