Virtual Learning To Go Where No Student Has Gone Before
Help me give my students opportunities to visit the world via Virtual Reality Headsets, experience science phenomena that once was only available through text, delve into STEM activities to engineer and design via virtual hands-on experience.
My students, today, aren't much different from when I began my teaching career some 30 + years ago. In fact many of them have a parent I taught when I first started teaching ! My students, like their parents, are caring, inquisitive, and smart. They love challenges and meet them head on with determination to succeed.
My students are high-energy and have the ability to design and create wonderful things.
One obstacle they face is not having the resources needed to support their creativity. Teachers in our district work hard to think "outside the box" to find ways to meet the students' needs the best we can, but the financial needs are greater than most teachers can provide.
My Project
We live in very small, low-economic, rural community. Many students lack life experiences to draw upon when taking high stakes tests at the end of the year. Virtual Reality gives them the opportunity for these experiences. Let's face it, the average citizen is not a world traveler, but through VR, anyone can experience the thrill seeing and learning of new things.
Virtual Reality (VR) can provide my students with experiences they may never have in the real world.
I once had a student that had never been on any type of vacation or trip away from home. Imagine how hard it would be to write about your favorite trip when you never had one. With VR, a student can travel to famous tourist sites or camp under the stars!
Teaching Social Studies, gives me the prime opportunity to combine VR travel with financial literacy. My students will plan travel itineraries and budgets to visit the thirteen original colonies, archeological sites, then take virtual reality field trips via the Leveno Mirage Solo VR headsets. New life experiences are endless with virtual reality.
Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream, Standalone VR Headset with Worldsense Body Tracking, Ultra-Crisp QHD Display, Smartly Designed Mobile Headset
• Amazon Business
$199.68
2
$399.36
Safco Mobile Utility Cabinet, Nebula Gray, 31"H x 27"W x 20"D
• Quill.com
$287.99
1
$287.99
Materials cost
$687.35
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$56.71
3rd party payment processing fee
$10.31
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$784.37
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$138.42
Total project goal
$922.79
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$922.79
1 Donor
-$307.60
Donations toward project cost
-$261.46
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$46.14
match offer
-$615.19
Match offer toward project cost
-$522.91
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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