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Mr. Matias from Chula Vista CA is requesting Instructional Technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Students Need Color in the Classroom to Help Them Learn

My students need a printer and ink for colored worksheets to stimulate learning, whether it's a simple worksheet, some homework, a file folder, velcro sheets, or PECS icons!

  • $279 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Hey there! We are a great, litte classroom! We are a class of 9 students with a lot of energy. It's a Special Day Classroom that needs constant help. Our main goal in the classroom to make learning more than just fun, but meaningful. Our most important need for learning is through some fun interactions with each other, adults, or our surroundings.

We are all students that need every type of learning there is.

We benefit from kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learning.

My Project

​Different colors, their combinations, and their placement can have an effect on attention, memory, feelings, and behaviors of students. A color printer will provide my students the chance to look at the classroom with better interest. It's biggest use in the classroom will be through our PECS. Students with disabilities sometimes needs different ways of communication. A PECs(picture exchange communication system) chart can help determine a student's needs and desires before it gets too frustrating for a student.

A colored PECS table can make it easier for students to distinguish between the bathroom symbol and the "I want" symbol more than the actual words.

On top of that, PECS can also be distributed throughout the classroom to label items so that there's an opportunity for students to make the connection between the word and the picture

In this classroom, we use file folders a great deal. File Folders can help students practice their ABCs, Numbers, Shapes, and emotions. If the colors on the file folders pop out, we will be able to hold the attention of my students far longer than having simple black and white file folders!

Mr. Matias
Grades 3-5

This project will reach 9 students.

4 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon PIXMA TS5120 - multifunction printer (color) • Best Buy Education $86.83 1 $86.83
Canon CL-241 - color (cyan, magenta, yellow) - original - ink cartridge • Best Buy Education $27.94 2 $55.88
Canon PG-240 - black - original - ink cartridge • Best Buy Education $22.06 2 $44.12

Materials cost

$186.83

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$236.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.77

Total project goal

$278.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $278.49

4 Donors

-$278.49

Donations toward project cost

-$236.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.77

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