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Mrs. Fowler from Lewiston, ME is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Visual Learning Has Impact on ELL Learners

Help me give my students enhanced visual support. With a document camera to project onto the whiteboard, students can interact with any text that we are using to support their learning.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Fowler's classroom raised $349

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are inquisitive, eager learners who want to be successful and strive to improve daily. As English Language Learners, having the proper supports and scaffolds for learning is so important and truly impacting. I am the Grade 2 English Language Learner teacher for an elementary school in an impoverished urban area. I teach students who come from many cultural backgrounds with many different languages. Our common ground is learning English. I seek to support their learning with a variety of teaching techniques and tools to provide the most successful learning environment possible.

My Project

Having a document camera is a necessity for teaching today in any classroom. However it is even more critical to have one when teaching students who are trying to learn a new language while also learning grade level standards.

This document camera will allow me to project learning materials such as literature, images, activities and worksheets onto a whiteboard and enable students to interact with white board markers directly on the projected image on the whiteboard.

Providing visual supports and scaffolds is necessary for ESL students to be successful in not only learning a new language but also attaining academic content at their grade level.

Mrs. Fowler Montello Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lewiston, ME View local requests

Nearly all 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

32 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lumens DC125 Ladibug 30fps HD Lightweight Document Camera • Amazon Business $249.99 1 $249.99

Materials cost

$249.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$12.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$296.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.28

Total project goal

$348.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$348.52

5 Donors

-$348.52

Donations toward project cost

-$296.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.28

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$0.00

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