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Mr. Goldberg from Brooklyn NY is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Make Virtual Reality an Actual Reality for My Students!

My students need VR headsets and mobile devices for immersive learning experiences.

  • $4,573 goal

This project expired on September 19, 2018.

This project expired on September 19, 2018.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I like to think of our school library as "The Little Library That Could." Housed in a converted classroom fitted with a circulation desk, air conditioner, and water fountain, the library provides a cozy, joyful retreat for students as they discover and explore the world of children's literature.

My school serves Pre-K through 5th grade students in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Many of our families are first generation residents from the West Indies struggling to make ends meet. Eighty-seven percent of our students are eligible for free lunch. The economic downturn has hit our school community particularly hard. Poverty and unemployment are unacceptably high, while our budget continues to tighten. Further, we must compete with new local charter schools possessing greater resources and more attractive, state-of-the-art facilities. Our dedicated teachers work tirelessly to engage students as these new schools aggressively market themselves to our best and brightest.

Too many of our students come from homes with few books to call their own, yet I am heartened by the tremendous enthusiasm and joy the children express as we explore a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction books together. Students beam as they leave my library with borrowed books to read.

My Project

Imagine guiding students on an active and immersive tour of Machu Picchu, the International Space Station, the surface of Mars, and inside the human bloodstream all from the comfort of a school library! These are some of the amazing learning experiences now available using Virtual Reality (VR) headsets coupled with VR apps and VR platforms like Google Expeditions.

VR is entering classrooms around the world and taking pupils on field trips to the most inaccessible corners of the planet.

Not only does this new technology boost engagement, particularly for students who have special needs, but it has been shown to lead students to ask higher numbers of more complex and analytical questions than when learning from text and still images alone.

Amazingly, VR experiences of places like war-torn Syria or Ancient Rome, can even promote higher levels of empathy in students! If you have ever experienced VR (and if you have not, you should!) you know how immersive, exciting, and powerful the experience could be for students.

Mr. Goldberg
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Google Expeditions VR Classroom Kit 10-student pack with case • Eduporium.com $3,799.87 1 $3,799.87

Materials cost

$3,799.87

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$57.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,886.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$685.92

Total project goal

$4,572.79

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