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145,037 |
p020993
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722a3456b9defdf7d50d5da596d8d325
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Mrs.
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NY
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2016-08-21 22:00:36
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Grades 3-5
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Music & The Arts
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Visual Arts
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Let's Paint Like the Masters!
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Our students are inquisitive and enthusiastic about art. They come to class with anticipation despite the challenges many of them face; living in foster homes and homeless shelters, in an impoverished neighborhood in Brooklyn. \r\n\r\nThey are eager to have new experiences in art.\r\n\r\n Their smiles boast a newfound confidence, when they have mastered a new art technique and have discovered the beauty they can create. Being that we are a title 1 school, we are in constant need of resources. \r\n
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Our past year together, our students found a whole new love for painting. They're eager to get better at it! However these materials will also help with their development of fine motor skills so much of them really need. We plan to sculpt figures, bas relief tiles, and rediscover the magic of printmaking with texture rubbings, collographs and frottage.\r\nThis year we hope to expand our knowledge of color theory by painting portraits and landscapes, and in the process of try various painting techniques such as color blending. \r\n Despite all circumstances painting is the one peaceful refuge away from it all. The art room became the safe haven for fun, discovery and learning new things about the world through art.\r\n
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My students need painting supplies such as watercolor and tempera sets as well as heavyweight watercolor paper, texture plates for preliminary printmaking , scissors for left hands and mirrors for portrait drawing.
| 0 | 0 |
76,660 |
p142087
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fb58354b7e4244621b07a9462cd96619
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Mrs.
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TX
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2016-09-01 00:15:18
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Foreign Languages, Literacy
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KIDS IN NEED OF FLEXIBLE SITTING ARRANGEMENTS
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Seeing kids learn and grow is what I look forward everyday. I teach in a school where the majority of the kids come from low income families. This are students that come to school to find a safe place to be.\r\n\r\nkids can fall in love with learning if they know they have a meaningful relationship with their teacher.\r\n\r\nMy students love coming to school and everyday I try to get the best out of them. I can not control what is going on at home but we develop our own sense of family and community within our classroom.
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We are a class of first graders in the Dual Program. We have students working in cooperative groups to help each other acquire a second language. \r\n\r\nIt is important for the students to get a choice in how they want to learn. With flexible sitting students can decide where and how they want to learn and provides a constant opportunity for kids to move in the classroom.\r\n\r\nMy students are becoming bi-literate and bilingual and providing them with the correct flexible environment will help them focus in acquiring a second language through content in the most comfortable and friendly way.
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My students need a classroom carpet, beanbags seats, a relax station, reading pillows and wobble chairs to allow for flexible sitting.
| 0 | 0 |
144,294 |
p199039
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59b9debed20a4c2b5736cecaf3b50605
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Ms.
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MI
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2016-04-27 13:18:30
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning, Music & The Arts
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Early Development, Visual Arts
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The Outdoor Classroom
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My students have two 45 minute outdoor learning times in our schedule every day. Some children want to extend their learning outside.
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My school serves low income students and families. My children are very creative and enjoy expressing themselves by creating art and building structures. Our playground only has a play structure. The way the playground currently is doesn't allow children the opportunity to be creative.
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These materials will allow my children the ability to paint and draw outside. They will be able to build in the sandbox. These materials will extend the classroom outside by affording children to participate in activities beyond just playing on the playground equipment.
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This project will change my students' lives for the better because it will allow them to be creative in an outdoor environment. They will be able to paint while in fresh air. They will be able to explore the playground with the binoculars. They will be able to create and build with the modeling sand.
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My students need an outdoor art easel, paint, paper, sand table, and modeling sand to extend their play during outdoor time!
| 0 | 1 |
99,352 |
p101526
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5380851867616d6d662dfe4314dc5410
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Mrs.
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AL
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2016-10-25 11:12:14
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literature & Writing, Mathematics
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3rd Graders Becoming 21st Century Learners
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As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I am looking to keep things simple and provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences.\r\n\r\nI love watching them learn through their excitement on their faces as they are learning through technology. This year I hope to implement technology in each subject area. This will allow them to learn in a whole group environment and individual atmosphere. \r\n\r\nMy students are not capable of providing their own device due to financial hardship.
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I am always looking for new ways to implement technology that will encourage their speaking and listening skills as well. I believe this grant would help with my need. \r\n\r\nThe devices we are requesting will help us becoming collaborative learners. This project will not only help us become digital learners but it will also help my students learn collaborative conversation and how to share with each other. The skills they will gain will go beyond academics. \r\n\r\nOur classroom would incorporate the devices in math, science, reading, and writing. The devices would allow us to incorporate websites and devices that are designed for my students.
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My students need devices to use in each subject area. We are incorporating technology into each subject to to encourage student learning. I am preparing students to incorporate this into their future jobs and lives.
| 2 | 1 |
16,117 |
p143910
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184eb0f8ff46f6688a5b9dccc422803d
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Mr.
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IL
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2016-08-25 10:17:12
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Grades 6-8
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Music & The Arts
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Music, Performing Arts
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Clarinets Needed To Start A School Band!
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How many of you remember playing in the school band? So many of my students are eager to play instruments. Why not help make their dreams come true by providing three flutes?\r\n\r\nPresently, I teach elementary/middle school music (4-8) at a high needs public school in Illinois.\r\n\r\nDue to budget cuts, the school is unable to fund a music program for the school. Music, being an interdisciplinary subject, encompasses all subjects students encounter during their education. The students at this school are very enthusiastic about music and should have a top-notch music program. This can only be possible with your help!
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My students need clarinets and reeds to start a school band. The students will learn how to work together in an ensemble which encourages team work. They will also receive the satisfaction of learning how to play a musical instrument. Music is very entertaining and allows for freedom of expression. My students deserve the opportunity to express themselves through music, and playing the clarinet will provide that foundation.\r\nMusic is the universal language, and provides an experience that will allow the students to appreciate the creative process, and develop a commitment to excellence.\r\nYour donations will help the students to experience music on a greater level through their performance.
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My students need 3 clarinets in order to start a school band.
| 28 | 1 |
63,927 |
p010982
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caa1403dafa543d4b73bd14273b8ea94
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Ms.
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GA
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2016-12-30 15:06:02
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literature & Writing, Mathematics
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Technology Fun
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My students are amazing and diverse 5-6 year olds that are excited to learn and explore. We are a STEM school, and my students have fully embraced the STEM mindset of problem solving, designing, and creating. We are in need of some additional technology to assist us on our learning journey. We are a lowest income, Title I school with a very diverse population. We need as many experiences and tools in our classroom to engage students and give them the fullest learning experience possible.
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My students are excited and eager to explore. They have embraced the STEM focus of our school and are excellent problem solvers, creators, and risk takers. The Osmo kits would help students expand their STEM mindset. The kits will help with creativity, problem solving, and sharpen coding skills. The two cases will help protect our class ipad minis that were teacher funded. The google home is something we are excited to use to assist with all of their curiosities and in research and writing projects. We are excited and interested to use the google home to help assist with their ever curious minds.\r\n
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My students need Osmo kits to explore and create on our iPads. We also need cases to protect our iPads. We want a google home to help with research and writing projects.
| 0 | 1 |
7,305 |
p189401
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d13b0282e3fd580b3e9da27ccfae8933
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Mr.
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NY
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2017-03-03 09:08:03
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Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy, Literature & Writing
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High Interest Books Requested by High Achieving Students!
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Our students are bright, thoughtful, wholehearted young people who have real dreams! Our school is located in the South Bronx. The neighborhood struggles with extreme poverty, despair, and being under-served by public services. Students and their families cannot afford books. This includes essential fiction books for reading in and out of school. Of course, libraries are free but many families cannot take advantage of them because of location, time of parents work, and other complex access issues.\r\n\r\nStudents in our learning community tremendously value books!\r\nThey take excellent care of books and treasure them! The students in our classes are avid readers and writers. However, they do not always have access to great books to read once they have gone through our classroom libraries. Our voracious readers need regular refreshes to keep them on the bright trajectory they are building by reading incessantly. To do that we need great books for them!
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Day one these books will be utilized for our book club work. Students read in book clubs which creates the space for discussion around concepts such as theme/plot, author's craft, vocabulary, characters, setting, and genre. These clubs function better when the books are engaging and keep students riveted to the pages and longing to share with their classmates! These books have been requested by students. Students have a sense of their own interests and devotions, and tapping into the powerful reservoir of energy and motivation of student interest can go a long way to helping students continue on their academic journey! \r\nThese books will call to our students and push them to go farther with their reading!\r\nFresh books enliven the classroom and bring a new initiative and a burst of motivation to continue our work. Thank you for giving us a chance to start of 2017 with fresh books and fresh goals to keep our reading growing stronger!
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My students need a total of 43 volumes including Michael Vey 5 & 6, the Answer, Brave New World, Dunkirk, The Maze Runner, Dork Diaries, Justin Bieber, and other special requests by students!
| 228 | 1 |
12,529 |
p181074
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82b24ab7f40382465e7a38904f7e2ba9
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Mr.
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IL
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2016-08-02 10:46:12
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness
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Pedometers for OUR School, Please!!!!
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We teach in a smaller community of students from low income families. They are eager to come to school and excited to learn. We are focusing our goals on getting off the couch and getting fit. We want our students to live long and healthy lives. \r\nOur students work hard and try to be successful in school, their families are so proud of them when they accomplish great things!\r\nWe want them to just as proud of themselves on becoming strong and dependent adults!
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My students are requesting pedometers so that we can walk and exercise. Wearing a pedometer or fitness tracker and recording your daily steps and distance is a great motivating tool. You can wear a pedometer all day, every day and record total steps. Or you can wear it just when you go out for a walking workout.\r\n\r\n Well, my students love to move and some days we will wear them all day to see who gets in the most steps in the day!\r\n\r\nOn rainy days we have a square corridor and we walk the square. I want the kids to see that the steps add up to miles when they keep going.
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My students need pedometers to monitor our steps and keep track of our exercise!
| 1 | 1 |
180,298 |
p125707
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118bda683fadeaf169a22f2a08fa179c
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Ms.
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NY
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2016-06-14 12:44:00
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Grades 9-12
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History & Civics
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Civics & Government, Social Sciences
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Be an Effective Advocate for Yourself and Your Community!\r\n\r\n\r\n
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My students are working to overcome academic, social and economic challenges. Despite their challenges, they are thriving. They have won debate championships, national contests involving best expression through art, and a New York City essay contest on the importance of a landmark Supreme Court decision. \r\n\r\nContribute to the continued success of students who struggle daily to overcome academic, social, emotional and economic challenges. My school site is in a neighborhood that is considered to be one of the most dangerous and economically disadvantaged communities in the nation. However, our school is an example of how education is the great equalizer. We expose our students to competitive debate opportunities, use of outside resources such as class trips to colleges, federal court for debate competitions and also interviews of high level public officials. We prepare them to be effective advocates for themselves and their community.\r\n\r\n
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Laptops for my students will allow them to fact check and research the evidence behind the rhetoric of various current event issues and political campaigns. My students enjoy debating current event \r\nissues. As their debate team coach, I stress the importance of looking behind rhetoric and opinion to dig for supporting facts and credible evidence. This skill and practice will not only contribute to their debate success, but will also contribute to their role as responsible citizens, future voters and advocates for themselves and their communities.\r\n\r\nHelp me prepare students to be savvy and responsible citizens, who look behind political rhetoric and news sound bites and who have the skills needed to be effective advocates for themselves and their community. I will use the laptops for research projects and debate preparation.
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My students need eight (8) laptops for their research and debate preparation.
| 0 | 1 |
65,583 |
p135108
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e7d120ae79badd6b0ed85e6d0f9b9c3b
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Mrs.
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MI
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2016-07-12 09:43:49
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning
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Early Development
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Toys For ACTIVE PLAY!
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I work in a diverse school with 80% qualifying for free and reduced lunch. Although we have many preschool programs in our city, many of my students have never experienced school or being in a structured learning setting. Over the past three years, I am experiencing more and more students that have had some sort of traumatic event in their young lives that shapes their brain and their ability to learn.\r\nPlay is an important part of a young child's learning experience. There are many reports and research done in the area of play and how important it is to brain development, social skills and content area learning. Unfortunately, most of my toys are second hand, garage sale type toys and are not built for durabilty and the amount of different children that play with them. \r\n As a kindergarten teacher I am the \"front line\" in educating these students and their parents. I love my school, the students and their families. These children become like my own and I feel a part of their family.
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My students are generally students who come from racially diverse, economically challenged, single parent households. So many have not received any kind of pre-school or prior structured experience before kindergarten. When asked what they play at home I get game systems, apps, and violent games played on their television or computer. My young students need to learn how to imagine, how to create, how to play with other children. Play is so important in young children's lives. \r\nPlay encourages imagination, problem solving and healthy brain development. I am hoping with the funds I receive through Donor's Choose that I will be able to provide that for my students for years to come.
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My students need active, durable, play toys. They especially need wooden block sets and dramatic play materials such as dress up clothes, mailbox, ethnic dolls and toys that help them develop their creativity, encourage sharing.
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22,410 |
p132941
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b2cf12115b89d4660bbd1fbf109b9f40
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Mrs.
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TX
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2016-08-02 12:39:18
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports
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Health & Wellness
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Rocking and Rolling to ENERGIZE Our Brains
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My kindergarten class is very full of energy and ready to explore. They come to me with the eagerness to learn something new every single day. They try their hardest and always do their best to meet our class expectations. \r\n\r\nTheir minds are constantly churning and have a deep desire to learn. \r\n\r\nWe live in a small, yet developing town in Texas. Our class is culturally diverse and we have many different personality types in our class. Just like any children they love to play, laugh and learn.
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My students love to move. Many of them have entered Kindergarten and have been at home until they step through our classroom door. The students have inspired this idea because of their constant need, as children, to move their bodies. After two school years of watching little ones fall out of chairs and choosing to sit on the floor or fighting over my glider- they have inspired me to change up the seating in the classroom. These flexible seating options will be used every day during independent work, small group work, and some may use it during our whole group carpet time. \r\n\r\nStudies have found benefits of flexible seating include: burning more calories, an output of excess energy, improving core strength, increasing oxygen to the brain and the list can go on and on. With all of these benefits of flexible seating it is no surprise that those benefits lead to better academic performance and more on-task behavior! \r\n\r\nThe benefits of flexible seating will increase and support peer to peer learning by helping the children focus on their learning objectives instead of focusing on how they can move around. Children that have that internal need to move will have that need satisfied with these seating options and they will be able to focus on the tasks at hand. \r\n\r\nThese seating options will help the students become active for more than 60 minutes per day because most of our days are spent in small group work, learning stations, and independent work. During these times the children will be able to utilize the flexible\r\nseating options which means that instead of just sitting in a hard plastic chair- they will be able to MOVE AND LEARN!!!! Burning more energy and FUELING their brains! This is such an exciting time in education!
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My students need rocking bowls and a teeter popper to use as flexible seating options in our classroom. These flexible seating options provide students a way to move and not interrupt other student's learning.
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32,848 |
p123446
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e96791c383a8ee093bb15f5615cec0d1
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Ms.
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CT
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2016-09-21 13:21:25
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Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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Nonfiction: Opening Students' Eyes to the World Around Them
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On the first day of school this year, my students searched the fiction section of our classroom library with awe in their eyes. A chorus of, \"These are all ours!?!?\" \"We can take them home!?!\" \"Can I check this out now?!\" rang through my classroom immediately. Shortly after, I watched the awe deflate from my eager readers, as they found our lack-luster non-fiction section. They were clearly disappointed.\r\n\r\nMy students are eager readers and learners. Unfortunately, many of them do not have access to experiences outside of their neighborhoods or their families. I believe literature can be used to fulfill my students' desire to explore the world that they may not have a chance to explore otherwise. \r\n\r\n
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This year, we are focusing our independent reading on genre study. Students will be analyzing all different genres at different points of the school year, including the non-fiction genre!\r\n\r\nNon-fiction has become such a booming genre, with texts spanning a huge variety of topics, written at a highly engaging level. It is my duty to expose my students to non-fiction beyond textbooks and boring encyclopedias! I believe this will expose them to the world outside of themselves. Who knows what new interests and passions they will find!!\r\n\r\nMy students will use non-fiction texts to study the new and improved genre and widen their perspectives of the world they live in.\r\n\r\n
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My students need highly engaging nonfiction texts to explore the world and ignite new passions!
| 0 | 1 |
9,443 |
p245800
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cf06fb892ee8f4296f81ae831d2fd66a
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Ms.
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CA
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2017-01-12 15:36:55
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Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language
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ESL, Literacy
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Chromebooks for Refugees
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My students are English Learners - refugees from the Middle East and Africa, as well as immigrants from South America. They are dedicated to learning and developing their English skills. Any time they are able to spend on using computers helps to improve their reading, listening, and speaking skills. At my school, there are seven different languages spoken among the students. Simple communication is very difficult; when they are newcomers to our country, they speak very little English. Technology helps them communicate their needs with me and vise versa. \r\nMy students have no technology at home and little formal education. They leave their countries with next to nothing. It's important that they use technology as much as possible because not much can be done without it. These Chromebooks will help them to succeed in school, and apply for college and jobs in the future.
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My students are still adapting to American customs and culture, while also being asked to learn more than they've ever been expected to before, in a formal setting that they are unused to. Unfortunately, our school has few resources and we can only use school computers once a week. This is simply not enough. \r\n\r\nThese Chromebooks will enable my students to become stronger readers and writers. They will be able to do reading programs, as well as improve their typing, a skill which all of them lack. Many of the reading programs have listening activities, which the headphones will enable them to do. They will also be able to work on various projects for school; writing essays, research, and presentations. I will also be able to give my students time to work on other subjects, such as Social Studies or Science, where their understanding and ability to communicate is often more difficult than in my class.
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My students need Chromebooks for developing their English skills and adapting to an unfamiliar culture that is now their own.
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179,685 |
p209727
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b7320b0d3bab082044812c6a059af95a
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Mrs.
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KS
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2016-10-05 17:07:00
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports, Special Needs
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Health & Wellness, Special Needs
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Movin and Groovin
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I have 24 students with all abilities. Some grade level achievement, many below. Often times the below grade level is due to the lack of focus and being distracted. When given they are allowed to learn in an environment that they are comfortable in, can move as they need to, or that provides a different place to be, they choose to more engaged in their learning. \r\n\r\nOur principal and building is trying to provide the best learning environment possible for students of all levels to achieve at their highest potential.
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My students started the year with a variety of places to work. We have discovered that we need more places. WE looked together at many different options, and chose those listed. This is their homeroom and we have many needs that the current seat arrangement is not meeting.\r\n\r\nMy classroom enjoy taking the responsibility of choosing where they set that will provide the best opportunity to learn. With the use of the ball chair the students will be able to move as they are engaging in learning without the distraction. The wobble stools allow them to have movement at a higher table. The stable stools will allow students to move around the room easily due to the light weight stool. The table can be adjusted to fit whichever option they choose. The wiggle cushions allow easily distracted students to move around in their seats as they work.
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My students need a variety of working environments to allow them to wiggle as they work to keep them focused.
| 0 | 1 |
170,376 |
p103672
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9d5c80293630ec31115caa20d2ecdbba
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Ms.
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IL
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2016-05-06 14:44:47
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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ESL, Literacy
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Creating an Inviting Learning Space
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\"You have to learn to make the best of every situation\" relates to my project. Space at our school is very limited and we have converted unusual spaces into instructional areas. It's important to make the best of our situation by creating an organized and attractive learning environment for kids.
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I am a bilingual/ESL teacher in Chicago Public Schools. I have 58 ESL students in grades K-8. They are highly motivated and come to school every day ready to learn. The majority of my students are Latino. Most of them are in the bilingual/ESL program for 3 to 5 years. Therefore, I have the wonderful opportunity of working with them for multiple years and seeing them grow. \r\nOur school is relatively small. We have approximately 400 students. Our students come from various parts in the city because we are a good school. Our teachers work very hard to provide students with a high quality and rigorous education. Our parents are extremely involved and fund-raise all year long to fill the gaps in our budget. One of the most extraordinary things about our school is that we encourage our students to be kind to one another. Our hope is they will display kindness, at every opportunity they are able to do so.
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The space in our school is very limited. We have been forced to find creative ways to use small spaces. I work with 58 students throughout the week in small groups. I have been given a small room in which to work with my students. Although, the space is small, I value it tremendously because it is a quiet place where a great deal of learning has taken place. I am requesting various things such as a book shelf, a tabletop easel, storage cart, and mailboxes. I would like these materials because I want to make the space attractive and inviting for students. I have many beautiful picture books which we read together. However, they are all in boxes and not easily accessible to students. I also have lots of supplies and materials for students to use. Most are stored in my desk drawers. I want there to be designated space for all books and materials we need for class. I also have requested a classroom mailbox and hanging folder slots where each student can store their journals and folders.
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Our tiny room is too small for student desks. I want to make the most of the space we have been given. I want my ESL students to visit the room and feel like it is their classroom. I want them to have a place to store their learning materials. I want them to browse and read our books. I want them to know where they can find pencils, paper, scissors, and crayons when we are working on class projects. I know my students would be very excited and happy if we had a warm and colorful new classroom.
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My students need a bookshelf, supplies carts, and wall pocket chart so they can have an designated area where to store and find instructional materials.
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12,555 |
p103604
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9c93a0955e8ee4b70ab097c50e8c58fd
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Ms.
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SC
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2016-07-16 13:29:37
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Mathematics
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Little Military Troopers Need Incentives and Rewards
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As a former military woman, I am honored to teach the children of men and women who are protecting our country.\r\nI teach second grade at a school located within a proud military community in South Carolina. My students love school and strive to do their very best. For the most part they are well disciplined and self motivated. However, they are still children and really enjoy being rewarded for their outstanding work and good behavior. Unfortunately, a very tight budget is limiting the amount and type of supplies that are available. The school will be terribly underfunded this year, and there is no room in the budget for our much wanted and needed incentives and rewards. The school is fortunate enough to have supportive parents who try to help out whenever possible, however money is tight for these hard-working parents as well.\r\n
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The incentives and rewards that I am requesting will be used to encourage the students to do their very best in school. These rewards will be used academically as well. The children will receive classroom cash for outstanding work and good citizenship. They will then use their math skills to count their money. The students will learn to make change by purchasing prizes from a classroom store. The store will be run maintained and run by the students. Education is the key to success. Please help us obtain these supplies for our classroom store and experience the joy of learning.\r\n\r\nThis project is important because it will help prepare our children to be the leaders of tomorrow.\r\nOur children need and deserve to have the very best education possible. Your donation to this project will be an investment in your future and the future of our children. These children are at an age where they love learning. These incentives and rewards will enrich that love of learning. Your kind donations will help my children get the very best education possible.\r\n
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My students need incentives and rewards, such as toy cars, balls, toy jewelry, and novelty fish for outstanding behavior and good citizenship to use in our class store.
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40,786 |
p248579
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7602391967674220477c032298aed338
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Mrs.
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MA
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2017-04-27 15:42:58
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Grades PreK-2
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Special Needs
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Special Needs
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Cozy Space for a Social Emotional Classroom
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Welcome to Classroom 207!\r\n\r\nOur Students:\r\nThe students in my classroom present with a variety of challenges - academically, socially and emotionally. The design of my classroom is to provide a therapeutic environment in which students can both feel safe and ready to learn. Every day is a different day for our students with highs and lows of varying degrees - which plays a part into the highs and lows we see in the students on a daily basis. Because of this, the students within this class need all of the benefits and assist. \r\n\r\nA group of children float in and out of a classroom, the times they stay in the room increasing and decreasing based on the day. School adjustment counselors float in and out of the room, offering a break from academics to work on emerging social and interpersonal skills. For some students, knowing how to use please and thank you can take a week of modeling and lessons By using various means of curriculum and integrated services, we help children grades 1-5 to stay on grade level while supporting other social and emotional needs to help students thrive in and out of the classroom.
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My students would benefit from a comfortable space where we can sit and all work together, and practice mindfulness meditation as part of out Social Emotional Curriculum . This space can also be utilized for students to change their scenery while working independently. Sometimes the smallest changes can make a big difference.\nStudent access the SEL classroom when the general education classroom has become too overwhelming. This new cozy and comfortable space would benefit the students by not only providing a great meeting space but it will also act as a flexible seating arrangement. Students often need a small change in space in order to remain forcused and on task.
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My students need a cozy carpet where we can all sit together for morning meetings, group work and mindfulness meditation as part of our social emotional curriculum.
| 1 | 1 |
139,231 |
p069527
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03becc5ac2f9dca539a7549070072cac
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Mrs.
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CA
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2016-08-29 18:41:22
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports
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Team Sports
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
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As a teacher at a Title 1 school, majority of my students qualify for free or reduced lunch. My fifth grade students face many obstacles at school and at home. Despite all the obstacles my students face, they don't let that get in the way of their school work. They are the most hard working students who don't get discouraged or give up. As Nelson Mandela said \"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.\" This quote beautifully portrays my fifth grade students.
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The fifth grade teachers would like to create a flag football team at our school to promote a safe and healthy environment, because SPORTSMATTER. Our school focuses on the 3 B's: Be Safe. Be Respectful. Be Responsible. \r\nBy being a part of a team, the fifth graders would learn responsibility, safety, and respect. First, being part of the team the fifth graders will learn about responsibility because in order to qualify the students must be in good academic standing and come to practice on time. Next, being part of the flag football team the students will learn safety because they will learn to work as a team and follow the rules. Finally, being part of a team the students will learn to respect one another because we will create an uplifting, positive environment where we encourage and support one another. \r\nThe flag football team will be able to represent our school and show others that we can get healthy as we follow the 3 B's. Be Safe. Be Respectful. Be Responsible. Creating a healthy, positive environment is what we strive for at our school.
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My students need a flag football set, a football, and a mesh bag to create a flag football team at our school.
| 3 | 1 |
110,035 |
p081953
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46b093001563e796536cbf2bff20b0d7
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Mrs.
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KY
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2017-04-28 11:03:49
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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Our Students Rising
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Our classroom consist of two teachers. Mrs. Grider is the General education teacher and Mrs. Malone is the Special Education teacher. We enter the classroom everyone ready to see our students and see their excitement for learning. Our students come from many backgrounds. We have students who are Caucasian, Hispanic, and African American. Our students are at all different learning levels, but never cease to want to learn with one another. They are creative within their learning and even outside of their learning. \r\n\r\nOur students are dreamers, thinkers, believers, imagineers, talkers, workers, and questioners. They strive to be successful, to explore their learning, develop their thinking, and create the unexpected. When students find books that they love, whether were reading them as a class or individually, they don't want to put them down. We can catch our students reading in the hallway, at lunch, at breakfast, and on breaks. Our classroom is full of growing learners.
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These books will make a difference in our students learning because it will allow them to finish reading the books and to be able to have their own copy of the book as they move on to middle school. It will help them improve their lives by being able to read and reflect on Esperanza and how she deals with certain situations and how they to may need to be able to change and adapt to certain situations. Our students have already been able to relate situations of judgement and loss in this story to their own lives. They have asked that they be able to have their own copy of this book because they can relate to Esperanza and the different experiences she is having to go through. They too are growing in ways that they don't fully understand.
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My students need the book Esperanza Rising, in order to complete their reading of it. We will be unable to finish the book in school, due to testing.
| 0 | 1 |
93,564 |
p031314
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ee6c7d0cd87934fd65a9f469bf74b50b
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-10-26 20:23:46
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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ESL, Literacy
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Wireless and Engaged Reading
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This school year, I have students with a variety of needs. These students come from a variety of socioeconomic statuses, religions, and ethnics. With all these differences, we build the love of learning in my room. I want my students to all have the opportunity to learn in multiple forms and deepen the knowledge they have. \r\n\r\nEach student is unique in their learning style and goals, especially with reading. I hope to foster a lifelong love of learning within my classroom.
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My students need a way to hear stories independently in the classroom as they learn the skills to read on their own. With this wireless design, my students will be able to work in small group centers without being distracted by other students. \r\n\r\nWe love reading in our classroom, and I want my students to be able to listen and read along with great stories such as the ones I am asking for. These materials will allow my students to hear the words in a story as they follow along. This will also keep my students engaged in reading together.
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My students need a listening center with audio books to follow along with to foster their love of reading.
| 17 | 1 |
173,354 |
p048205
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322865e80d4a69983c6d94fc7305085f
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Mrs.
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IL
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2017-01-29 20:42:06
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literature & Writing, Mathematics
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Google Chromebooks Bring the World to Us! Part 2
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Our fine arts magnet school is located in a vibrant and diverse community. Although we are in a high poverty district, our school has been able to retain our fine arts magnet status. However, it has been a challenge to find the funding for exciting, up-to-date learning materials that fit our 21st century students. \r\n\r\nOne hundred percent of the students who attend our school receive free or reduced-price lunch. We have a highly diverse immigrant population. As a choice school, students from many different backgrounds and countries attend our fine arts program. Our staff works hard to provide them with any materials they need to enhance their learning experiences.
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We are working diligently to become a 1:1 classroom so that each one of my students may have a laptop to work on their individualized reading and math assignments on such great sites as Big Universe, Sumdog, Coreclicks, and Flocabulary. My students could even conduct research on their individual laptops. It is also exciting that my young students will learn to log in using their school emails, to create bookmarks, and completely customize their laptops. I intend to also teach them about all the benefits of using google docs, google slideshows, and more. Look out -here come second grade computer experts!
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My students need two additional Chromebooks so that we can become a 1:1 classroom.
| 146 | 1 |
153,471 |
p153192
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1eb630202070a14078fd7b1c6d905fc2
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Mrs.
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ID
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2016-12-07 11:02:12
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Grades PreK-2
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Special Needs
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Special Needs
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Fidget Bins / Sensory Regulation Tools
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As a parent, a teacher, or an occupational therapist it is important that we understand the need for fidgets in children’s lives. According to North Shore Pediatric therapy, it is important to understand the root of your child’s sensory seeking behaviors. There are two main types of systems that regulate sensory. The first being met with light touch (tactile) and the second being met with deep pressure (proprioception). An example of a light touch fidget would be different textured material, soft spiky balls, and things easily manipulated during class instruction. An example of deep pressure fidgets would be a foam ball, stress ball, Theraputty, TheraBands, and items that can be squeezed or pulled on like sand or flour filled balls that provide a resistive feedback to the child. \r\n\r\nFidgets can be an effective way of self-regulation for many students. There are several purposes to a fidget, they include: decreasing stress, promoting focus and concentration, increasing tactile awareness in hands and fingers through proprioceptive input and strength building for a student’s hands and fingers. Keep in mind, there are different types of fidgets for students, including some for the feet. Attached are pictures and costs involved to create a fidget bin.
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As an OT in the school setting, teachers are frequently requesting tools and resources for the students in their classrooms that are struggling with sitting still, attention, and negative behaviors due to poor physical and emotional regulation. \r\n\r\nTo help these students, I supply teachers with tools to give students in class such as a fidget to manipulate in their hands, theraband stretched around their desk looks to press their feet into, or a T-stool to sit on instead of a traditional chair. These tools helps students to focus or remain seated for longer periods of time, enabling more potential for learning. \r\n\r\nThese tools and fidget supplies frequently do not make it back to me, and my resources to replenish these supplies are minimal.
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My students need tools for helping their bodies to regulate within the classroom in order to improve attention / learning.
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36,646 |
p210673
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6a6d989e8879539879617ef468721529
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Mr.
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UT
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2016-08-25 19:20:48
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Grades 9-12
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences
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The Physics of Spinning Things
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My students are part of a growing science program at our charter school. Like many Title I schools, we serve a wide range of socioeconomic and ability ranges. All of our students, however, are set to a high standard.\r\n We constantly strive to provide a challenging education experience for all of our students. The students are committed to learning and frequently support each other when learning new things. The students go out of their way to create a safe environment for all students to learn.
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Physics has to be seen and experienced in order for new concepts to be understood. The materials consist of two demos that can be explored to understand the relationship between velocity and the normal force. \r\nMore importantly, the other equipment will provide hands-on lab experiences to students. The materials are robust and wont break, so the labs can be used year after year. \r\nThank you for supporting science education; the more a student is able to conceptually understand difficult physics concepts, the more they will master the rigors of advanced studies. These lab materials will give the students the \"feel\" for rotational motion.
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My students need hands on materials for demonstrations and labs in order to understand rotational mechanics. The bicycle gyroscope wheel allows students to feel the direction of the momentum generated by the spinning wheel.
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120,896 |
p118118
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147ee7f296a0d74a1fba30591774f561
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Mrs.
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ND
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2017-04-12 13:45:40
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning
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Other
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Wiggle While We Work
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Every day students walk into our classroom knowing they are safe, loved, and important. As learners we know we all learn differently. Our classroom is a comfortable, feels like home environment, where students are able to take risks and be themselves.\r\n\r\nWe are a fantastic team of second graders. Our classroom is filled with eager, excited learners. All students know that when they walk into our room they have a voice and choice. \r\n\r\nOur school is unique, as we are a very diverse population. Many students come from low-income homes. Despite the hardships that we may see, all of my learners come to school eager, positive, and ready to learn.
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I'm requesting a couple more seating options for our classroom to continue implementing our flexible seating classroom. This plan allows students to choose a seat that specifically fits their learning style and needs. Students all learn differently and when they have the choice of the type of seat and area of the classroom they can work it will benefit their learning. Donations for this project will help me to further my goals of providing a flexible seating opportunity for my students in our classroom. A space for them to have the freedom and opportunity of choice. \r\n\r\nFlexible seating will help students to build their independence and put their learning into their own hands. My students will be able to be responsible for their education each and every day they come to school. Flexible seating gives students choice in where and how they would like to learn. These donations will help with the environment and culture of my classroom by making it more inviting and comforting for my current students, as well as my future students.
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My students need additonal hokki stools to allow simple, safe movement while learning in our classroom.
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34,145 |
p226722
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c4078592544ff121e4025a880d192257
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Mrs.
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AR
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2016-09-15 15:07:58
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Grades 3-5
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences
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(SIMS) Future Scientists and Engineers
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Within my 5th grade classroom, the students have a wide variety of learning styles and a wide spectrum of academic success. My students come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and cultural influences.\r\n\r\nMy students are excited and engaged to learn about the world around them. They are very diverse. I want to engage students through projects and meaningful experiences in the classroom, for them to experience how math and science are intrinsically connected to each other, to the students, and to the world around them.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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The materials I have requested are a mix of lab equipment, lab kits, mathematics supplies, engaging games and everyday materials that will be used by myself and students on a daily basis. I have requested materials to assist in both mathematics and science. \n\nStudents will use scales and googles along with the science kits and books to measure and graph data during science labs and projects. They will use the engaging science games to enhance student-led learning. Students will dissect an owl pellet and study an owls habitat with the owl pellets. \n\nThe resources I have requested will give my students a memorable classroom experience. The resources will also excite them and encourage them to learn more about science and mathematics.
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My students need scales, safety goggles, owl pellets, lab kits, graphing and math supplies and engaging games to engage in learning and relate science and mathematics concepts to the real world.
| 5 | 1 |
90,360 |
p218593
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9af2b10274f7ef464214490b41d880a2
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Ms.
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VA
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2017-02-14 18:43:19
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports, Special Needs
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Health & Wellness, Special Needs
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Rainbow Stools for Schools!
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Our school is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is a Title 1 school. The area we are located is near a naval base and allows for military and non-military families to attend our school. We come from different backgrounds, but in the classroom we come together and get to teach one another about ourselves and our culture. We are the future and learning is the key to a bright successful life. Happy, healthy, educated students is what we are all about!
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Stools for schools! Why not allow my students to pick where they want to sit and how they want to sit there? My students will use these seats as an option for their desks in the classroom. They can choose to use the seats to build core muscles along with getting their work completed on time. \r\nIf my students need a comfy place to work in order to succeed then I will do everything in my power to help make that happen! These lovely students are the future of our great nation and I have the honor of helping them achieve their goals on a daily basis. If allowing them to choose what type of seat best enhances their education then I will allow them to. I just need your help in making this dream a reality!
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My students need these stools to build up their core muscles along with being able to sit if different styles throughout the day!
| 2 | 1 |
137,135 |
p201249
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b13446f16ef50b0763b5f15875959964
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Mr.
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SC
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2016-09-04 09:26:58
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Grades 9-12
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Applied Learning
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College & Career Prep
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College Acceptance
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My students are a determined and highly motivated group of young people from rural Orangeburg, SC. Many travel long distances by bus to attend the High School for Health Professions. Orangeburg County is entirely Title 1 and 100% free or reduced lunch. These statistics however only work to encourage my students to work towards bettering their futures. By demonstrating this willingness to strive for a better future it is my mission as their teacher to provide them with the support they need to become independent and responsible scholars.
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With these books my students will be able to improve their chances of qualifying for scholarships and getting accepted into institutions of higher learning. Even though my students have attained substantial GPAs throughout their time in high school they, like many, struggle to reach the level of success on standardized tests to enter the universities and colleges they desire. I plan to offer these materials to my students as a way of giving them the extra edge they need to push themselves to the fullest of their potential. My hope is these students will act as ambassadors to motivate others to do the same.
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My students need SAT and ACT prep materials in order to qualify for the Palmetto Life and Fellows scholarships.
| 0 | 1 |
72,943 |
p086609
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3fe62334c5d08515eda496d76109e7ee
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Ms.
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MN
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2017-01-08 13:55:06
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science, Music & The Arts
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Applied Sciences, Performing Arts
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STEAM-work Makes the Dream Work
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My students are twenty-three extremely hard working kindergarteners with never ending curiousity. They all want to know how things work and will ask all the questions they can think of to quench their thirst for knowledge. Most of students are coming into kindergarten as their first time in school, but when you talk with them you'd never guess that based on their eagerness to learn and work. \r\nMy school has a strong emphasis around children being at the center of everything we do and does its best to ensure that students are receiving a high quality education to get them to and through college.
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In my classroom, we have designated time at the end of the day where students can engage in hands on active learning. There are always two centers that are focused around STEAM to allow students to engage their creativity and critical thinking skills. \r\n\r\nThe materials being requested will allow students to explore different areas of STEAM such as building bridges, buildings, and extending on literacy by helping popular story characters solve problems and act out stories. \r\n\r\nMy students always ask \"why\" and \"how\" when they are working and want to know more. Access to the materials being requested will allow my students to explore and answer these questions on their own.
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My students need materials that will allow them to further explore STEAM in the classroom.
| 2 | 1 |
123,979 |
p102580
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66787005b573c85e7d6c728a0c95154e
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Mrs.
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IL
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2016-09-25 22:20:19
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literacy, Mathematics
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iTeach: Using iPads to Differentiate
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Over 96% of students from my school are eligible for free lunch. 86% are black and 13% are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. Some of my Hispanic/Latino students come in unfamiliar with the English laguage. \r\n\r\nOur classroom is a strong community, but students face many challenges outside of school, including poverty and gang violence.\r\nThat said, my students arrive at school each day with the optimism and grit they need to succeed. I want to make our classroom a safe place that will support and inspire each of them.
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My students come in at such different places and it is important that I give each student what they need to help make them successful. iPads are a perfect way to support students' instruction with the rigor and pace that is best for them. I plan on using my iPads during several parts of the day, specifically during reading and math small group time. During this time I can pre-record lessons for students to watch to either enrich or re-teach previous instruction. I also plan on downloading several apps that bring engaging ways to review material we are learning in class.
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My students need practice using technology and this would not only give them that practice, it would also provide them a chance to practice with differenitiated, as well as, fun work!
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130,706 |
p126924
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5a8fc536ed55d488e53ada301bbf4fb8
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Ms.
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GA
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2016-08-11 22:01:05
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Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language, Special Needs
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Literacy, Special Needs
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Universally Designed Classroom
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“Autism … offers a chance for us to glimpse an awe-filled vision of the world that might otherwise pass us by,”- Dr. Colin Zimbleman, Ph.D. This is how my students make me feel everyday. Although my job is teach them the academic and functional skills they need to be successful they teach me far more in return. \r\n\r\nI teach a small group of students with autism and I leave work everyday with a smile on my face. My students are working hard everyday to master communication and language skills, social skills, and academic tasks. Everyday they inspire with their determination and positive attitudes.
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I am requesting Bouncy Bands, literacy materials, a color printer and classroom supplies so that I can design a classroom that meets all of my students unique needs. Bouncy Bands will help my students be able to move and seek sensory input while they learn. Leveled books and Scholastic News will help my students have access to grade appropriate text, connect to real world events, and help teach them comprehension strategies they need to be successful. Lamination and a color printer will allow me to make materials that fit each of their unique needs that will last for the entire year.\r\n\r\nMy students all have unique and different needs and they deserve a classroom that will meets all of their needs. These materials will help me to set up the classroom in a way that meets their needs.
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My students need Bouncy Bands to allow them to move and seek sensory input while they learn. They need reading materials to learn more about their world and increase comprehension.
| 0 | 1 |
158,835 |
p244423
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6a9d2f83e61cb164f1751369d18cabe9
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Mrs.
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CA
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2016-09-09 20:55:50
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literature & Writing, Mathematics
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Molding Imaginations With Play Doh
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I am a happy kindergarten teacher in a close knit friendly community. We work together daily to meet both our educational and personal goals. My students are sweet, energetic learners that require a lot of energy and creative ideas! I love writing up projects for my students, so they can have the best hands on materials to further their education. I want to provide the best education for my students, and I know I will learn from them as well.
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Do you remember the excitement of Play Doh as a child! I want my students to be able to enjoy this too. I know that sculpting and imagining with Play Doh helps improve a child's fine motor skills. I will use the Play Doh as a way to reinforce concepts such as letter recognition and math skills. Students will mold letters and create dough balls to count. I know that using clay is a great kinesthetic way to learn, and help imprint important skills. The Play Doh will be used during daily instruction, as well as during independent work time and creative play.
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My students need Play Doh to help develop fine motor skills!
| 8 | 1 |
23,489 |
p065974
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1ca7b89d01fdbf724c34ed6409a45583
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Mr.
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NY
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2016-10-03 10:03:02
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Grades 9-12
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences, Health & Life Science
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Genetic Research of the PTC Trait and Its Evolutionary Importance
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Our school is located on the water's edge. It is a small Title I high school located in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. \r\nWe are sandwiched between two major urban bridges - The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.\r\n\r\nAll of my students are English Language Learners (ELLs). They come from every part of the globe seeking a new life of opportunity and freedom here in the United States. They come with the hope that education will allow them to meet their full potential. As a discipline, science is ever-changing, and offers hands-on learning opportunities that work well with my ELLs.
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Can you taste that? Or are you tasteless? PTC (phenlythiocarbamide) is a chemical that can taste really bad, but only for some. Others cannot taste it at all. The question is why?\r\nOne of our culminating research projects is a long term, multi-year study of genetics of the human PTC gene that began in 2012.\r\nFor the past 4 years, our students conducted a phenotype/genotype research project to test an individual's ability to taste the chemical PTC. This is a well-studied trait that may provide some evolutionary advantage to those who possess it. Our research project is based on an analysis of heredity and genetic expression of the PTC gene as a function of cultural diversity. Although there may be regional differences, ultimately, we are more similar than we are different. \r\nUnfortunately, such projects are expensive. To continue our research project for 2016, we need the PTC DNA extraction and amplification sets, along with additional PTC reagents and HaeIII restriction enzymes.\r\nObtaining the kits and chemical reagents is beyond the scope of my public school. We will not be able to carry out our research without the support of caring individuals like you.\r\nMy job is to do everything in my power to help my students graduate high school and advance to college.\r\nAs a science teacher, my goal is to unleash my students' natural curiosity about the world around us. I cannot show my students the latest advances in the field of biotechnology without your help.\r\n\r\n
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My students need 12 sets of the PTC DNA extraction and amplification kits; PTC reagents and HaeIII enzymes to carry out a multi-year genetic analysis research project.
| 277 | 1 |
173,267 |
p202017
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3065748c6de59577c5b0269cd1888caa
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Ms.
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WA
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2017-01-09 01:32:55
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Grades 6-8
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Applied Learning, Math & Science
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Community Service, Health & Life Science
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West Hills Community Garden Seedling Project
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West Hills STEM Academy is a public school located in the poorest of neighborhoods. West Hills embraces multidisciplinary, relevant education innovations to improve our students' opportunities to learn well and leave school with skills that will improve their academic future. \r\nOne of our strategies is to create projects where student will have real-world experiences with career role models. Our community garden is one of these projects, where students are working with community partners to raise food for themselves and their neighbors. A local partner built 12 garden beds for students to grow food for their families, and we have installed a watering system and had a good harvest last year.
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These materials will be used to grow seedlings to plant in our community garden. The students will assemble the shelves, then set up all the planting equipment in south-facing windows. They will decide what they would like to grow in their garden, using the seeds that were donated by a generous community member. Finally, they will nurture the seedlings, then transplant to the outdoor beds.\r\n\r\nEach year West Hills students will be able to grow their own community garden seedlings. This is an excellent life skill, but also gives the students a way to directly help their community and families by growing healthy food. Having food is a critical issue for many of my students!
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My students need shelves, trays, pots and soil to start their own seedlings for their community garden.
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92,783 |
p014417
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1f7e5f8c5f58047d5ca08372392f535e
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Mrs.
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WI
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2016-09-22 11:49:08
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Grades 3-5
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences
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Dream, Design, Develop..\r\nBringing Technology to Life!
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There are approximately 750 curious, cooperative, and cool students that are enrolled at a large elementary school in Edgerton, Wisconsin. These students come from a small town between Janesville and Madison and many of the children live in close knit neighborhoods and some come from rural sub divisions. \r\n\r\nThese students are motivated to be engaged learners, problem solvers, and tech savvy as they prepare for their future in this fast paced world dominated by technology. The creation of our STEM Center, that will house the Dremel 3D Printer, is bringing students together to foster their critical thinking and productive questioning skills.
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Owning the Dremel 3D Idea Builder will allow over 750 students the opportunity to design and develop structures, explore and solve problems in new and unique ways, and use software that will lead to computer coding. The Dremel 3D Printer is user-friendly and can easily be used by teachers and students to maximize the full potential of this educational machine. \r\n\r\n3D Printing is making a difference in our world today and our students need to be prepared to be productive participants in this change! Bringing 3D printing to our school will help to educate our students in the advancements of technology and our students will have a positive and confident mindset as they confront new projects and curriculum in their future years.
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My students need a Dremel 3D Printer to envision the possibilities!
| 0 | 1 |
63,906 |
p060814
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751484b346d757e2e247ad823dd8dd4c
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Mrs.
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NJ
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2016-08-19 08:40:15
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences, Mathematics
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Todays Explorers, Tomorrows Innovators!
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My fantastic first grade students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. They are part of our low-income and culturally very diverse school district. I focus on their potential and growth to the best of their ability in my classroom. I hope to help them become lifelong learners.\r\n\r\nI am looking to motivate my students and provide them aspiring meaningful learning experiences. Despite the many challenges they face, my students are resilient. Most of them are being raised in single parent households and receive a free lunch based on their socioeconomic status. The students who need the most help, unfortunately get the least help. These things may prevent them from getting enriching learning experience.
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First grade is a crucial learning foundation for Math and Science knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college and modern workforce. As young learners, my students often get lost in the abstract concepts of Math and Science. \r\n\r\nHands-on exploring is a great motivator to inspire my students to develop in depth understanding of Math and Science skills and concepts. Learning centers will enable my students to be creative and instill curiosity to explore and gain knowledge. My students will be able use these learning centers during small group time. This project will make a huge difference in my students learning experience!
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My students need hands-on Science and Math materials which are foundation to attaining concrete knowledge and skills to succeed by exploring through leaning centers.
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103,430 |
p099196
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391e545306c7b5ab20225ec57613ff7b
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Mrs.
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SC
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2016-09-28 13:23:19
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literacy, Mathematics
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Listen and Learn!!
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\"Something is wrong with my headphones!\" This is often what I hear in the computer lab. Many times I end up having to tell the student that there are no replacement headphones. This makes work difficult because it is very hard to concentrate without headphones in a lab full of students.\r\nThey are kind, loving, entertaining, and excited to learn. We are a Title One school, which means that many of our students come from economically disadvantaged households. For many of these students, the time spent on the computer at school is the only time with technology they will receive. Despite their hardships, my students come to school ready to learn every day!
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Our students use headphones to complete various assignments during their computer lab time. Students work on their reading and math skills in a program called Classworks! With headphones students will be able to concentrate and pay better attention to what they are doing. Headphones will allow my students to tune out background noise and focus on the assignment they have in front of them. It will also lessen distractions caused from students raising hands about broken headphones.\r\n Your generous donation will allow my students to hear better on the computer.\r\n Headphones will allow them to concentrate on their work and focus on achieving their very best by drowning out outside noise. \r\n
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My students need a lab set of headphones to complete their assignments in computer lab!
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92,596 |
p147235
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eeefedf0b28af33854716df14d8d93d1
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Mr.
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FL
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2016-12-10 09:01:14
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Grades 9-12
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences
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Color Pops Off the Page for Our Escape Room Activities!
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Remember the magic of science class when you were growing up? Physics opens up a world of wonder and excitement for young minds. While learning important concepts, we get to have fun with the coolest toys in school.\r\n\r\nMy students come from very diverse backgrounds; I try to instill a sense of wonder and awe in science.\r\nThe magic of Physics comes alive in my room with interactive projects, hands-on labs, and mind blowing demos that reveal deep misconceptions most of us have about how things work. On the first day of school my students work together to try to understand how Lenz' Law works (without ever having been taught the concept). It's amazing to see the ideas that sprout forth on that first day. From then on, they are constantly challenged and must defend their positions with evidence.
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I have another project up that deals with acquiring Breakout Edu box materials (google Breakout Edu to see this fun spreading educational movement). This is a secondary project to that one. There will be lots of materials to print out for the activities and I want my students to have the full effect by having them in color. It makes it more exciting and professional. The printer I have is black and white and I don't have access to a color printer. I believe this will enhance the projects and activities we will be doing. The printer will also be available for students that need color prints. \r\nMy students already love the lab activities we do in class and I hope to enhance that with the availability of a color printer. With Breakout Edu activities, there are a lot of materials to print off for each group. The activities have the students working in groups toward a common goal of unlocking a box. It's kind of like an escape room where you are working with each other and against a clock. There is a treasure trove of educational activities I want to use with my classes. I thank you for taking to time to consider this project... with donors like you, my students have enjoyed a much more engaging classroom environment with greater hands-on lab activities. Thank you.
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My students need a color printer and extra cartridges to add the POP of color to documents and materials to be used with our Escape Room (Breakout) activities.
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67,175 |
p232122
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433f3c61024fca12399b911d32fa2e06
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Mr.
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CA
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2017-01-28 16:15:47
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy, Literature & Writing
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Wonderfully Illustrated Books For The Struggling Student.
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CES is a Title One school in the heart of Chinatown, Los Angeles. It has a diverse group of students from many backgrounds including, Chinese, Laotian, Jamaican, African American, Central American, Mexican and Caucasian. The teacher’s are here are incredible, providing a rigorous and interesting academic environment. The students are treated with great respect and our school is looked on as a model with impressive scores and great parent support\r\n\r\nI have some students who struggle with reading and this is an innovative way to invite them into the amazing world of literature. I have students who are curious, enthusiastic and hardworking but some of them struggle with reading. Every third grader LOVES comic books and these TOON Books are a great way to lower the anxiety of children who are not at grade level.
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Toon Books are a wonderful way for the struggling reader to feel included in the class. The love of books can be created in many ways and one way is through the use of Toon Books. They have incredible illustrations and easy to read captions that bring reading into the story.\r\n\r\nMy third grade students love to read, but for some it's a struggle. These incredible comic books bring great stories to life through minimal text and beautiful illustrations. Some are every day stories and some are based on great classics so the students get to experience the wide range of enjoyment that literature offers.
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My students need TOON books to access literature at a level that is at their ability.
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2,929 |
p194121
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9d88a76afaaf855bf984927b1956f591
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Mr.
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OH
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2016-11-12 19:53:54
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Grades 9-12
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Health & Sports
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Team Sports
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Baseball Practice and Game Essentials
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Our students are some of the best in the city of Cleveland. They must apply to our school and be accepted to come to one of the three small schools we have on campus. They have a desire to be part of our baseball program and be come a successful student athlete. The experience and the skill level of our team varies greatly and all of our players need to grow physically and mentally to become a better athlete and baseball player.
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We have a limited amount of space for most of our practices. We must make the most of it and set up stations so that they can continue to improve their baseball skills and knowledge.\r\nThe items that we need will allow the coaching staff to get more repetitions and exposure for all of our players. The catchers gear is for the protection of our catchers as they catch pitchers and batting practice. Being a part of a team is part of the high school experience and athletes should always try to improve their skills. The practice tee and balls will allow us to help improve our players performance on the field.
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My students need these items to help them out in practice and for their protection.
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172,881 |
p171471
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2d704b97eb123b01e6451144eb55de65
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Mrs.
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UT
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2016-09-02 01:43:03
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literacy, Mathematics
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Room to spare with a pocket for a chair.
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I am a beginning year teacher, in an urban community in Salt Lake City. School has been in session for 2 weeks and I have realized that we could be a little more organized in the classroom (the students and myself). They use totes to keep their supplies in that they keep on their table or on the floor during the day, but I feel like there could be a better way to stay organized while leaving space on the tables for students to work. \r\nWe would love over the chair pockets to keep pencils, books, and other folders and papers that we use throughout the day. These would help our transitions run a lot smoother as they wouldn't have to dig through their tote to get items they need. \r\n\r\nThis donation would be a great benifit to my new classroom and for all the students who learn there.
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As a new teacher I have been learning a lot the first few weeks of school. I learned at a rapid rate that organization is key in the classroom for students to learn and transition with ease. I have been using totes that are good for students to use, but they are bulky, and take up a lot of space, and are difficult for transitions. \r\nOver the chair pocket sacks would be so wonderful to have in the classroom and free up desk and floor space to make room for more meaningful learning and other learning activities, and to make transitions run a lot smoother. It would mean more time learning and less time looking for a book in a tote.
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My students need chair storage so they can be more organized and so transitions can run smoothly.
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178,826 |
p188409
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d1e813eb0f0ffd0d8b82f2481e712b76
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Mrs.
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SC
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2016-06-04 16:20:31
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences, Mathematics
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STEM: Engineers in the Making Through Play!
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My kindergarten students are excited about learning and love to create new things. Walk into my classroom on any given day and you will find us learning through music, movement, collaborative groups and play.\r\nMy students come from many different backgrounds, and come to school with a wide variety of life experiences, but they are all bright, inquisitive, and eager to learn students. \r\nI provide many experiences for learning in different ways, and I want to be able to foster their imaginations by providing them with more hands on learning experiences. \r\n
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By creating a Science Center in my classroom, my students will have the opportunity to learn how to construct, engineer and problem solve together. By using the Fairy Tales Problem Solving STEM kits, my students will learn to design a house that can't be blown down, construct a bridge for the 3 Billy Goats Gruff and build a chair for Goldilocks. The Science Kits will allow my students to explore magnetism and motion as they complete hands on experiments and engineering activities. The Create-A-Chain Reaction kit allows them to create their own crazy contraption, then set off a chain reaction using ramps, pendulums and hammers.\r\n Donations to this project will provide STEM kits and activities that will develop skills in science, engineering, math, critical thinking, problem solving, creative & structural design, support and balance, and fine motor development. \r\n\"Each of these STEM activities naturally inspires learning through trial and error as students work toward solving each challenge-building their confidence as they develop STEM skills need for success in grade school and beyond!\" Lakeshore
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My students need a Lakeshore STEM bundle which includes many of the Lakeshore STEM Kits for our hands on science center.
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154,818 |
p021643
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c8aab31ed8a04ed033d852b2666b136f
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-09-01 22:34:33
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Grades 6-8
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History & Civics
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Civics & Government, History & Geography
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Chromebooks for Collaboration!
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I have the most wonderful, intelligent, and varied students a teacher could ask for. I teach in a community whose families value education and support their kids as best as they can. Kids come to school ready and excited to learn. \r\n\r\nOn the surface, one would think a school in my area would have all the classroom technology that money could buy. We are located in a town that could be labeled as upper middle class. What people don't see is the interesting mix of socio-economic levels that create a diverse and special school community. My students reflect the real world.\r\n\r\nSo, despite the heartfelt support of parents and the enthusiasm of my students, we sometimes are lacking in classroom materials, primarily technology. What we lack in consistent tech is made up for in collegiality and hard work.
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Having consistent access to Chromebooks will improve opportunities my students have to research and collaborate. I currently have an average of 32 students per class, and only have three Chromebooks for kids to share. My goal is to steadily add Chromebooks, a few at a time, to our collection so students have equal access. \r\n\r\nOur school is a Google Apps school, and with that come a variety of apps that allow for students to share documents and projects in real time. We can only fully realize the creative potential these apps provide if more students have hands-on time with tech. This is where the Chromebooks come in!
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My students need consistent access to technology: high quality Chromebooks for research and collaboration.
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78,024 |
p067731
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9eea834b19a826b5f4563eb48b392399
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Ms.
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FL
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2016-06-01 09:58:13
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Grades 6-8
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Music & The Arts
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Visual Arts
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Hands in Clay Part II
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My students really enjoy being engaged in the art classroom and learning new things. They love getting their hands dirty, working hard....and making messes!! \r\n\r\nMy students are very interested in learning about different mediums and how to make art that they enjoy showing to other students and their parents. My students are very proud of their work and of what they can accomplish when they put their mind to it. Being able to introduce ceramics to my classroom will really take the students to a new level of art.
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I previously was funded by Donorschoose.com for a wedging stand for my art students so that we could use clay in our classroom. I did not realize it at the time but I selected just the stand thinking that it was the stand and wedging table together. I would love to get the rest of the table for the classroom so that we can use the stand and create awesome clay projects.\r\n\r\nI want my students to be able learn all of the correct steps to creating ceramic art, completing our wedging table will be a great addition to my classroom.
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My students need the Debcor wedging board to learn to properly wedge clay in our class room so that it will correctly fire in the kiln.
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41,469 |
p085393
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86e72ea86a4e69df826740418f97301f
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Ms.
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NY
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2017-01-27 17:11:49
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Mathematics
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Document Cameras for Math Discourse and Rigorous Read Aloud!
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My students sometimes ask me, \"Can we just do our math instead of recess?\" When the learning is fun enough, the difference between the yard and the classroom becomes inconsequential. As an Expeditionary Learning school, our instruction is based on the principles of character, academic rigor, and high quality work. In the primary grades, we believe in honoring the development of the whole child, and infuse play and playfulness, music, and art into our learning throughout the day.\r\n\r\nMy school is a bilingual elementary school in Washington Heights, a diverse (though predominantly Latino) neighborhood in upper Manhattan. My students are creative, kind, and culturally aware second graders. They can greet you in 5 different languages. They love to sing, meditate, and collaborate. My students learn in Spanish for half of each day, and in English for the other half. While some are learning Spanish, others are learning English -- every child is both a teacher and a learner. With all these wonderful attributes, it bears noting that we are a 95% free lunch public school in serious need of additional resources to provide the education we envision for our students!
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Document cameras are an every day staple of the classrooms that have them. They allow students to quickly and easily show their work and their thinking with the class. They allow teachers to project read-aloud text so that students can read higher level books along with their teacher, accelerating vocabulary acquisition and fluency.\r\n\r\nIn our classrooms, document cameras will support teachers in providing the most rigorous and student-centered instruction possible -- and will support our students in engaging deeply with every text and math strategy we discuss. \r\n\r\nProviding a real audience for student work is a core value of EL Education - students are motivated by the authentic opportunity to share their work and to have others read their writing. We can't wait to have document cameras in our 2nd grade classrooms so that every student has the opportunity not only to share their work, but to learn from the work of their peers.
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My students need document cameras to share their strategies during math discourse and read our high-level read alouds together!
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37,541 |
p227911
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26b728e22947f51072bb927d43c4c739
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Mr.
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OH
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2016-08-23 21:49:24
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Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language, Special Needs
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Literacy, Special Needs
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Project Sensory! What's Your Strategy?
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As a teacher at an educational service center that provides an alternative school setting for students with multiple disabilities, my students are faced with several challenges both in and outside of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I am looking to meet the individual needs of each student by providing a safe positive learning environment, sensory input strategies, and self regulation techniques. Providing a well balanced sensory diet includes the use of sensory tools within the classroom on a daily basis! Students utilize noise cancelling headphones, hand fidgets, wiggle seats and weighted vests as part of their sensory tool kit. They incorporate movement, help students focus, and provide calm sensory stimulation when students are feeling frustrated, overwhelmed or anxious.\r\n
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Imagine the sound of a pencil tapping across the classroom so distracting to a child that frustration, anxiety and possible meltdown occur from the incident. Now imagine a classroom environment where the individual needs of a student are so diverse that incorporating a simple sensory tool or strategy could make a WORLD of difference! Welcome to the unique, amazing, creative, and diverse population of students I work with everyday! Each student in my classroom creates their own sensory tool kit throughout the school year. A sensory kit is unique to each individual as each child is unique and has their own needs. Finding the perfect fit is like finding the perfect pair of shoes. You might have to try on a few before you find the perfect fit, but when you do… the walk will be much smoother and a whole lot more comfortable. The noise cancelling headphones provide that comfort, silence and deep pressure my students need to focus and be successful during academic activities. The weighted vest provide pressure, calmness and a \"grounded feeling\" for those feeling weightless in their own bodies. The sensory ball set and kinetic sand will be exemplary for sensory breaks during and after instructional periods. These tools are essential in a special education setting, especially during Literacy instruction. Just ask my student wearing a set of noise cancelling headphones who is engaged, focused and not distracted! My students strive each day to meet their behavior goals, improving their overall mindset towards life.
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My students need a multisensory approach towards self-regulation. Noise cancelling headphones, weighted vests, and hand fidgets meet those needs for focus, pressure, calmness, and busy hands!
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140,143 |
p107591
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701e9562d2cc180acd12d0a04e8af745
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Mrs.
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NY
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2016-10-29 18:15:28
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Special Needs
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Literature & Writing, Special Needs
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\"HERITAGES\"-an American Journey\r\nBy ME
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A class of special needs students who are highly motivated and energetic and require multi modalities to learn.\r\nThey come from a low socio-economic area, mostly 1 parent families with many children. Parents work hard., but supplies are still quite scarce or non existent, as with electronic or 21 century supplies\r\nBy donating to our project you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement.\r\nFeeling successful
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Photography- is a 21st century technology and follows common core / state standards. It teaches a skill as well as allies for personal creative abilities\nBeing my own illustrator to authoring my own story about my heritage allows creativity, personal insight and allows them to \"go wild\" without being locked in to someone else's ideas. A Confidence booster which is a vehicle to learning. \nAlso producing a book with photos/illustrators to show how they view the world, their community & their lives ( from their point of view/visions).\nProducing out a published book to share, allows the child to show who they are and not worry about how they write or what they write without any specific requirements only.
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My students need the photography/ illustration part in order to accomplish their goals of becoming AUTHORS
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117,576 |
p000414
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bbc724aa1a7854f10d1cb4caf713e27f
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Ms.
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WI
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2017-01-06 02:09:10
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science, Literacy & Language
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Applied Sciences, ESL
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Chromebooks for Kinders! Help Us Code and Read!
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My kindergarten students are a diverse group of active, happy, and eager kids! I teach in a classroom where half of the day's instruction is in English, and the other half of the day's instruction is in Spanish. My students are a 50/50 mix of native English and native Spanish speakers. The student population consists of 42% English language learners and 57% of students from low income families. We are a kindergarten through second grade school and have about five hundred students. Our diverse students love to learn!
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Today's students are tech savvy. They learn better when technology is integrated into the curriculum. They also learn better when they are engaged in their own learning, and discovering things which are of most interest to them.\r\n\r\nThe use of technology is a daily part of our students lives.\r\nHowever, most kindergarten and first grade students have more experience with phones and tablets than computers. We will use the computers during literacy time for reading and phonics games and listening to books on the computer. We will also play fun coding games.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, our district requires students to complete standardized testing using computers. This project will allow students to become familiar and comfortable with using a computer before participating in district wide testing.
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My students need 3 chromebooks for literacy and coding work in our classroom.
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18,001 |
p234815
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35888deb0c9ce5d22a5aa2aae74365ce
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Mrs.
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WA
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2016-08-05 14:48:36
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness
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Core Strength in the Classroom!
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I teach 2nd grade at a small, suburban school in Washington. My school is designated as a high-poverty school, with many students receiving free or reduced-priced meals because of their socioeconomic situation. If you were to come visit, however, you would never know that. You would see students who love learning and want to do their very best. My classroom of 7- and 8-year-olds is always made up students who have a wide variety of abilities, interests, and challenges. This includes learning support students, English language learners, and academically gifted students. I am here to teach them all and give them the best education!\r\n
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My classroom is a pretty active place! But even with all of the movement we do, my students have told me that they want to move MORE! They told me that sitting still during activities like reading and writing can be really difficult for them. As we brainstormed possible solutions to this problem, we discovered that there are alternative seating options that allow movement! \r\n\r\nMy students would like to bring Hokki stools and balance ball chairs into the classroom so that they can wiggle, wobble, and move while doing normally sedentary activities such as reading and writing. Students will work together to compile data on how the stools and balance ball chairs affect their stamina for reading and writing. \r\n\r\nHaving these stools and chairs in the classroom will also help my students to be active and exercising for at least 60 minutes every day, just while they're at school! They already get 50 minutes of recess every day, and they will EASILY get 10 additional minutes by using these stools and chairs! Both require core strength in order to stay balanced while sitting on them, so kids will be getting a workout WHILE they are sitting and working!\r\n\r\nI believe that these stools and balance chairs will make a HUGE difference in my students' health and education!
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My students need Hokki stools and balance ball chairs in their classroom.
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142,871 |
p118453
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ca1d44eac8b94347aa72ff731c60b57d
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Ms.
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OK
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2016-08-14 21:31:30
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning, Math & Science
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Early Development, Mathematics
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Let's Help My Student's Learn!
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My class will be made up of brilliant, intelligent, creative, and unique Kindergarten students. My school serves a community where nearly the entire school benefits from the free and reduced lunch program and many struggle to afford basic needs. \r\n\r\nI want my class to be a place for my students to come and enjoy learning without worrying about the stress they may be facing at home. Help me help give my students the best education I can so they enjoy school!
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Successful learning starts in a successful environment. In order to be able to grow and engage in the classroom the materials requested will be used for my students benefit.\r\n\r\nThese items will help to make our class a more enjoyable, creative, and unique space for students.\r\nThe pencils requested are thicker which allow students to hold pencils and write easier while meeting their fine motor needs. The math manipulatives will be used for math lessons and centers to help students better understand the content through hands on learning. The paint will be used to help expand my students minds through art and creativity. Lastly, the food will be used in our play kitchen space so that students can enjoy dramatic play.\r\n\r\nAnything contributed to our room will be enjoyed and put to great use. I hope you consider donating to our classroom space and helping students enjoy school each and every day! If you donate you will receive a heartfelt thank you from our class of your donation in use. We look forward to using these great items in our classroom!
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My students need these manipulatives and toys to help them expand their creativity in dramatic play as well as to have a hands on experience with their learning.
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54,588 |
p199179
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c49a64ccdaeebbff22cf9fccb2a32a78
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Mrs.
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IN
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2017-02-22 16:33:44
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Special Needs
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Literature & Writing, Special Needs
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Flexible Seating in Kindergarten!
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Our school has a very high poverty rate. This means that enough of the students qualify for free or reduced priced lunch that the school provides free breakfast and lunch to all students and weekend meals to many.\r\n\r\nMy classroom is filled with students who come from many different backgrounds and speak many different languages. For many this is their first experience in a school setting. They need exposure to as many different types of learning experiences as possible, to help them catch up to their peers who had early childhood experiences. \r\n
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Kindergarten today looks a lot different than it did when I was in school. It has moved from blocks and kitchen sets to addition and reading with comprehension. Since my students are still only 5 and 6 they still need to move. I have tried to give them many opportunities to be active through hands on stations and movements breaks. The next step is flexible seating.\r\n\r\nWith things like wobbles chairs and seat cushions my students can sit to work in a way that works best for them. Kindergarten students are not meant to sit in a chair all day and this will give them more options.
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My students need wobble chairs, seat cushions, and trays for flexible seating options.
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96,264 |
p196616
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31af23eb7f565428356968a609682e12
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Mr.
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CA
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2016-05-24 14:17:07
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Music & The Arts
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Literature & Writing, Visual Arts
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Markers Make Learning Fun!
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I have 24 eager to learn first graders. They love to come to school and the school year requires several supplies that will be used. Our school is a Title One elementary school in the California Bay Area. Supplies are in constant need to be replenished, and donations from families are limited. \r\nArt is always a highlight in a child's school day. Materials/supplies for art projects are limited, so new/additional supplies are always appreciated. All of our students love to learn, and I make it my goal to help them absolutely LOVE coming to school each and every day.
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Donations to this project will allow my students to use markers and glue sticks for projects done throughout the school year. The markers will also be used for students to edit their writing and learn about the editing process. Glue sticks are used across the subjects, and they are in constant need of being replenished.\r\nStudents love to learn, and marker make learning more fun. Pencils and crayons are wonderful writing tools, but markers give a fun and engaging addition to writing. The supplies will definitely be put to good use. Any support to our classroom would be greatly appreciated.
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My students need washable markers and glue sticks to use throughout the school year.
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119,032 |
p001017
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55feef1b4b0d0db893d5e01e380937c9
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Mrs.
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MO
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2017-02-24 13:45:10
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Environmental Science, Mathematics
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STEM-ing resources for expanding minds!
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Our building has a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) focus. My students learn through real-life discovery and hands-on inquiry. Our building is a small building with a strong family support system. \r\n\r\nMy students are bright, talented and caring individuals. They work hard and love to learn. Most of my students come from low-income/ high poverty homes with low parental support. These kids strive to be the best that they can be, even with all of the challenges that they face.
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The STEM books will allow my students to have a boarder understanding about how Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics effect the world around them. These books will allow them to learn about careers that fall under the STEM emphasis. The shelves will allow for a place for us to store these items. \r\n\r\nBy having these resources my students will be able to connect their everyday lives to the possibility of STEM careers. It is important for students from low-income areas to see the importance of STEM careers. These resources will allow them to connect to possible options for their futures!
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My students need STEM books to help expand their knowledge base!
| 10 | 1 |
119,827 |
p071161
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48cca21cabe93d6c06aa55fbb279fd6f
|
Mrs.
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NJ
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2016-06-07 13:03:11
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning
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Character Education, Early Development
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Summer Fun (but not for long)!!!
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I teach Pre-K in a large urban public elementary school. My students all live in the immediate neighborhood of the school, which is a neighborhood high on crime and low on resources. The vast majority of my students are Latino and about half of the students start the school year speaking only Spanish. All of my students started the year behind national averages in developmental areas like language ability, pre-literacy concepts, and mathematics and reasoning. The majority of them are headed to kindergarten next fall, so I have been focused on catching them up throughout the year. \r\nThey are showing wonderful progress, not just with gaining knowledge and concepts, but with understanding their own development and having a growth mindset. This progress only fuels my drive to design rich activities focused on solid learning objectives. I am constantly trying to improve my classroom environment in order to make that process easier and more focused.
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As we prepare for the summer, I'm also already preparing for the next school year. We have no closet in our classroom, so things must be stored in boxes in a very systematic way so that they can be accessed easily next year. These materials will create an organized system of storage so that next year's curriculum units and the learning areas of our classroom can each be inventoried and stored properly. In the fall, my students and I will determine their learning needs and immediately be able to find what we need and get to work. As the year progresses, we'll change out the materials in the classroom based on mastery and changing interests.
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My students need storage bins and materials for labeling so that we can store and rotate materials to keep the classroom relevant and engaging as our curriculum topics develop throughout the school year.
| 2 | 1 |
48,093 |
p125885
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89f834ccc8bcd1a7d609e26148db24a1
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Ms.
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PA
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2016-10-17 12:56:13
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Grades 6-8
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Math & Science, Special Needs
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Mathematics, Special Needs
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The Math Curse Strikes Again!
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As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district (where teachers have not had a contract or pay raise in over four years) my students are faced with unfair challenges. Although my students lack healthy environments at home and insufficient classroom resources to supplement their learning, I am fortunate to have special, high achieving students from various backgrounds of race, gender and heritage attending. \r\n\r\nThese students come to school eager to learn, hungry for knowledge, and with the understanding that hard work leads to success. My students are kind, respectful, and responsible. WE set the example for others both in and out of the classroom. I teach my students about respect. Respect for each other, respect for themselves, respect for their surrounding environment. In doing so, I have created a positive, safe, caring classroom. This is so important for many of my student because they need an escape from their reality. These things often prevent low-income/high poverty students from getting ahead early in life. \r\n\r\nI focus on student potential and growth each day. I am constantly modeling for that knowledge is power. Education opens the door for your future and being responsible individual is very important because actions have consequences!
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Have you ever read the book \"THE MATH CURSE\"? Well, this girl has been \"cursed\" with math challenges and ruin her day. My students live this curse each day in my math class. We have zero technology and need these Chromebooks to take my basic classroom into the 21st Century. Most do not have technology at home and because to this, my students are falling short to meet the demanding Common Core Standards and PSSA scores. \r\n\r\nBy donating to my classroom, you will allow my students to explore STEM projects, differentiate their instruction through online remediation, and increase their academic achievement in all subjects. Not only are you helping my current students, but all future math students at this school. I can place student into flexible grouping centers and have various programs to help each students need. Think Through Math and Study Island are two intervention programs that increase student math achievement. It has been found that the more time students spend online doing independent learning, their math computation skills improve several levels. In order for this to happen, the school must provide the technology for students. \r\n\r\nMy parents do not have the resources to purchase the technology needed to succeed. I cannot purchase these myself since I have not had a contract or raise in over four years. I put my heart and sole into my classroom, teaching, and my students each day. I want the best for them and their future. Please help us!
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My students need 8 Chromebooks to enhance their learning in the 21st Century digital age. These books would take my students learning from basic knowledge to mastery with rigor and allow cross-curricular learning.
| 0 | 1 |
160,188 |
p043177
|
1b81af7481b0fe5592acc6136b1440a5
|
Mrs.
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NC
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2017-01-19 13:43:59
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness
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New materials for North Cove NCPK outdoor learning
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NCPK serves at risk children. These children have to overcome multiple obstacles and are usually are very happy when it comes to being at school. Criteria for this program varies from income to underprivileged areas of education. The progress these children make just by being in the classroom is phenomenal There are 18 diverse students in my classroom. \r\n\r\nLearning is playing. Children gain the most for the experiences that they encounter. My children would love to have new playground equipment to enhance their gross motor development
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Children benefit from outdoor play both physically and emotionally. Studies have consistently shown that playing in an outdoor environment reduces stress while increasing vitamin D levels, promoting social skills, and even increasing attention spans. Outdoor play needs to be fun, safe, inviting, and engaging . The more experiences that children have the better foundations they have for learning. Please help enhance the lives of these children by supporting the materials that they have access to.\r\n The NC Pre-K classroom gets a small budget for supplies. Those funds are usually used for consumables and things the classroom needs to function. Please help us give our children more.
| null | null |
My students need more outdoor play equipment for an adequate playground
| 0 | 0 |
118,150 |
p115321
|
38f01a05d39002bee2d29038dbe40d4f
|
Ms.
|
SC
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2016-07-25 19:10:54
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning, Music & The Arts
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Early Development, Visual Arts
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Colorful Creations
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I teach first grade in a high poverty, Title One rural school. I want all of my students to have the necessary art supplies to express their creativity, individually, in small groups and at centers.\r\nMany of my students do not have access to basic school supplies. Through this project, my students will have the same opportunities as children in larger, more affluent school districts. \r\nFirst graders are curious by nature. Having the freedom to express themselves through art will enhance their creativity and self esteem.
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My first graders need crayons, markers and construction paper to create and enhance learning. Many of my students do not have basic school supplies. Your donations will allow them to have a selection of bright, colorful materials. \r\nFirst graders also need opportunities to move while learning. Wobble chairs give them the opportunity to move while expressing their creativity. Stampers, in various colors, will expose them to a new way of creating words, sentences and story illustrations. \r\nI plan to use these art supplies individually, in small groups and in learning centers. Some first graders may not express themselves using words. However, given the opportunity, young children will express themselves through the arts. Your donations will allow my students to have the freedom to be creative and share their likes and interests.
| null | null |
My students need art supplies to enhance creativity and hands-on learning.
| 0 | 1 |
70,591 |
p227776
|
f6022e069fd55d2ede14bea13a2025a2
|
Ms.
|
NY
|
2016-09-01 17:13:51
|
Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
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Environmental Science
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STEM for Brighter Horizons!
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Teaching and learning is a never-ending process for all children. As a teacher in a Title 1 School, where so many of our children come from immigrant families, education is ever so important and a great responsibility. We give our children a sense of the world around them and opens doors to more learning and curiosities. We learn to \"go with the flow\" and adapt to all that comes towards us. \r\n\r\nI have been teaching for a few years and it continues to bring me so much joy but it is even more gratifying that I am teaching in the same exact school I once attended myself. \r\n\r\n\"That's so awesome!\" is probably one of the most gratifying words you can hear when students really grasp a concept you've been working on together for days, weeks, or even months. Many of our children come from low income families. They don't always have access readily available to iPads or laptops whenever curiosity strikes to research more information, or just to use different apps to help with their reading and/or math skills. I hope that I can inspire them everyday to nurture their ideas and motivate them to achieve more than they thought.
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STEM is a growing importance for our students. Using all these tools will foster learning in this area. The iPad Pro will be a model for research during small group instruction so that lessons can be explicit and focused. They will have a chance to research and see concepts come to life through various apps and sites, such as DiscoveryEducation.com. It will also serve as a tool to communicate with families to keep them updated about the curriculum being taught in class. Students will also have an opportunity to use hands-on math manipulatives and science kits to further their understanding of concepts in math and science, as well as address the needs of kinesthetic/visual learners. Our class will work on a hands-on study about water (the water cycle, pollution, ocean animals, and habitats). Some examples include writing letters to our political leaders urging them to protect our environment and/or creating tools to help solve our issues with water pollution. This will provide an opportunity for students to extend their learning and work on their critical thinking skills. \r\n\r\nThis project would significantly benefit my students who come from low income families.
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My students need these tools (iPad Pro, math manipulatives, and science kits) to support more learning opportunities in STEM.
| 0 | 1 |
125,930 |
p001092
|
14fd3154e555269bac0319f26ce9db5c
|
Mrs.
|
LA
|
2016-09-12 18:57:36
|
Grades 6-8
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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One More Bookshelf to Meet Our Need
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Though we were only one week into school when our school and so many of our students' homes flooded, it was evident that I was teaching an extraordinary group of students. They were eager to make new friends, be helpful to me and each other, and ready to learn. So much of that has been put on hold due to the flood, but I can hardly wait to greet them and encourage them as soon as we can start school again. \r\n\r\nThese Louisiana students are resilient, and I look forward to helping them through this difficult and challenging time in their lives. The future is bright for them, and I look forward to seeing all that they accomplish not only this year, but in the years to come.
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One more bookshelf will help me and my wonderful students with classroom organization. The build-ins we had in the classroom before the flood had to be removed, and this will help us keep things neat and easily accessible. \r\n\r\nYour donation to this project will contribute to my Louisiana students experiencing firsthand how many positives can come from trying circumstances. When students returned today, they were quite shocked to see all the things that had changed about our classroom. Your help in solving our organizational space issue will be greatly appreciated by me and the students! On top of that, what a great teaching moment it will be for us to discuss the importance of giving back when we have the opportunity.
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My students need an additional bookshelf for books, workbooks, and classroom supplies.
| 12 | 1 |
22,555 |
p078913
|
083b98e9699dca14fa713ccfa4c894c4
|
Mrs.
|
NY
|
2016-09-02 22:57:36
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness
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TARGETing Our Learning: Inside and Outside of the Classroom
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My students are like most fourth graders. They love to move, to learn, to develop friendships, and to have fun. Funding for public education has been significantly reduced in recent years, and many residents in my community have felt the pain of a faltering economic climate. As a Title 1 building, many of the students in my building are burdened with severe economic needs. \r\n\r\nThese children face a variety of life challenges that most fourth graders can't even imagine. Many worry about where their next meal will come from, if someone will be home for them when they leave school each day, or in some cases where they will be sleeping at night. Despite their hardships, they look forward to the constancy of school and the opportunity to better themselves. \r\n\r\nThis “kid-inspired” project will supply us with tools to help us get up and move for 60 minutes a day. \r\n\r\n
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I teach three classes of fun, compassionate, and energetic nine and ten year olds. One day, I brought in a yoga ball to sit on while we were completing science stations. Each student wanted to take a turn sitting on the yoga ball. They loved that they could bounce and move while still learning! My students said they wished we could have more ball chairs, and more options for sitting in the room besides their hard, plastic chairs. My students are requesting Balance Ball Chairs, Wobble Chairs, and yoga mats. \r\n\r\nAs the names suggest, using these different styles of seats builds a child's inner core strength and creates a healthier body while helping them stay focused to create a healthier mind. With more movement, behavior problems decrease and student engagement increases. Having these flexible seating options will help us meet our goal of getting 60 minutes of exercise each day!\r\n\r\nBecause of the size of our school, the playground is not readily available to our 4th graders every day. However, we have a nice, open outdoor space that we can take the students to for recess. The difficulty is that we have limited recess equipment. Students would love to work cooperatively to solve the Marble Maze challenge. Running and catching while playing Djubi would be great fun too! With recess, children have choices and can organize their own games, figure out what's fair, and learn a lot of social behavior that they don't learn elsewhere. Having more recess equipment would help students get their 60 minutes of activity a day! \r\n\r\n\r\n
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My students need Balance Ball Chairs and Wobble Chairs so they can wiggle while they work in the classroom. They also need recess equipment, like Marble Maze and Djubi, to make recess fun!
| 3 | 1 |
150,987 |
p254568
|
64ee0b067edbc4d265eb98a24342e04d
|
Mr.
|
CA
|
2016-09-16 15:30:12
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Grades 6-8
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences, Health & Life Science
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Digital Scales for Calculating Density and Other STEM Projects
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I am teaching a STEM lab this year and it will be the first hands on experience many of my students have with science and math. I want my students to make their own discoveries. My students are, in a word, awesome. They need the same opportunities as students from more advantaged areas. I want them to discover that education is a way for them to achieve their goals and dreams. Many of them would be the first in their families to achieve a college education.
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The triple beam balances we currently use are outdated and the accuracy is questionable. Our students need modern, up to date lab equipment to accurately determine the weight of objects for a variety of applications (density, following a recipe, and other STEM based learning experiences). This is the third of many projects I have planned to help bring our science labs into the 21st century, so that our students have the same opportunities as those from more well-off areas.\r\n\r\nHaving these scales will allow our students to make extremely accurate measurements and calculations. I have asked my colleagues what our number one need is, and they let me know our students need scales that work. Additionally I will be using them in our STEM lab on various investigations throughout the year.\r\n\r\n\r\n
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My students need digital scales to accurately determine weight in various STEM based investigations.
| 2 | 1 |
46,826 |
p022364
|
7f3db5c1fc3b5daa0b76f5b01d02b5ef
|
Mrs.
|
NV
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2016-07-15 22:41:42
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Grades 3-5
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History & Civics
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Civics & Government, Social Sciences
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Kids, Communities, and Current Events
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As a new third grade teacher in a low-income/high poverty school, not only will I need to rise above those daily challenges, but also the challenge of creating engaging and relevant lessons with limited resources. \r\n\r\nI want to start the new school year with relevant and meaningful lessons that demonstrate to students how much fun learning can be. This will set the stage for the rest of school year, where my students will be excited about learning and look forward to coming to school each day!
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Students are expected to gain a sense of their place in the world in third grade by learning about communities and citizenship. A subscription to Time for Kids will provide access to current events that will shape their understanding of what it takes to be a productive member of society and how their choices can affect others.\r\n\r\nThis resource will engage my students in learning about their civic duties within a community. My students will read articles about people who are making the news now and be able to identify their contributions to society. By reading about and discussing current events, my students will be able to identify the qualities of productive citizens, and the ways in which these people are making a difference within their communities. This subscription will not only allow my students to grow as readers, but they will also gain valuable critical thinking skills.\r\n\r\n\r\n
| null | null |
My students need a subscription to Time for Kids to build their knowledge of the world.
| 2 | 1 |
126,180 |
p220072
|
7e193d1d78604aa17fca6b458bc1e1e1
|
Ms.
|
DC
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2016-10-18 21:58:46
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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Together, we will fly!
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Fearless, hardworking, creative, confident, brave and courageous are words that come to mind when I express the qualities in my second grade class. 100% of my students qualify for free and reduced lunch. In this urban district, Washington D.C., resources are limited, and in some cases there is a lack of parental involvement and family cohesiveness. Despite these obstacles, students come to school each day excited and ready to learn. Through this hard work, my school, both elementary and middle received Tier 1 status! We have proven that we can perform and compete with peers nation wide. These students deserve the world, and deserve to be afforded the same opportunities and experiences as their peers. \r\n\r\nWhile the main focus of instruction is Reading and Math, my goal is to continue to provide cross curricular experiences that include Science, Technology, Social Studies and Health. These real life experiences will make them better prepared for life through and beyond college.
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By providing the mentioned books, students will be able to experience texts that have main characters that look like them. These characters may have similar experiences as the children. It is crucial to ensure that children feel involved in learning and be able to relate to the stories they read. Because reading is the building block to a successful education, my goal is to encourage reading in the best ways possible. Books that are encouraging and demonstrate strength and perseverance will give students the motivation to succeed.\r\n\r\nThe scholastic readers will expose students to current events and news in the world. Several of my students do not watch the news and are not informed of the things going on in the world. These grade level appropriate readers will encourage critical thinking skills. This, in turn will yield students that are informed, proactive, and contributing members of society. \r\n\r\nThe additional supplies will improve the learning environment because teachers will not have to ask for class donations as parents may already be struggling to purchase priority items for their families. \r\n\r\n
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My students need books with characters that look like them. They also need supplies to improve the learning environment.
| 0 | 1 |
107,004 |
p090246
|
b17b29326d0a592e9858f326e29534bf
|
Ms.
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CA
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2016-08-12 14:01:51
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness
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Holey Walkamolie! Ms. G's Class NEEDS Pedometers (& Fitness Games)
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As a teacher in a low-income and high poverty school district, my students face challenges both in and outside of the classroom. My goal is to have my students come into my room and feel at home, while being apart of meaningful learning experiences. Many of our student population receives free lunch based on their socioeconomic status. These things may prevent them from getting ahead early in life and may not provide them with the life experiences many of us see as \"typical\". From the minute they walk in the door of my classroom, I focus on their potential and growth while they are with me. I may not be able to control their home lives, but I can certainly control their experience during the school day. By doing this in a creative and positive way, I am hopeful to inspire even our students to continue on a path of academic excellence.
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By using pedometers we will track steps, distance, and calories. My students are excited to be able to set goals and monitor activity to stay healthy. Each student will use their pedometer to track activity and make a chart holding them accountable.\r\n\r\nOur \"Kid Inspired Project\" is to learn about fitness and health.\r\nIn talking to my students about ways to get healthy and track our daily fitness, we decided to kick off a pedometer challenge. With the pedometers we will be able to track our activity and set goals to improve our health. Our goal is to be active at least 60 minutes per day outside of our regular recess time.\r\n\r\nNot only will we be able to monitor our daily progress but we will also bring math into our weekly and monthly goals. We discussed team building to support each other and motivate through positive encouragement. We are definitely excited to get healthy and keep active.
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My students need pedometers to track their distance, calories, and activity time and fitness games to keep them active and having fun.
| 1 | 1 |
68,195 |
p054613
|
0b81a048fed8a2099209f89c070964f5
|
Teacher
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PA
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2017-04-05 08:32:22
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Grades PreK-2
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Health & Sports
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Health & Wellness
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Mindful Musings
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\"Champions don't show up to get everything they want; they show up to give everything they have\". Who are these champions? Simply, my students. My champs have fought through battles most can't relate. My champs have endured challenges that should have brought them down, but they got back up. My champs have an inner strength the size of mountains. My champs are the ones who soar above those who try to take them down. Why? \r\n\r\nBecause my champs are strong, courageous, willful, passionate, ambitious, and persevere against their odds. They have dreams they will work to get to. They are loyal and trusting of those who push and love them. They are soft inside and hard on the outside. And while they expend an immense amount of energy and resilience to continue towards their dreams day in and day out, like any champ, one can trip. And while down, my champs can feel weak and empty. But with proper support, I can help those students get back up feeling positive, loved, and important yet again.
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Statistics show that children living in low-income high poverty areas are more likely to experience high trauma situations. This is the case for many of my students, resulting in impulsive, aggressive, and other negative types of behavior. My students have difficulty coping, managing their emotions, and problem solving when put in situations that cause them stress, frustration, or anxiety. Unfortunately, many schools, including mine, aren't well equipped with mental health programs that address these issues. \r\n\r\nBut here at my school, we are trying to change this so that every student has the skills they need to become more successful now and for their futures. The yoga mats, metronome, and other supplies will support the program being implemented into the school day that is based around mindfulness. These materials will help build a more relaxing space where students can \"reset\" their minds, learning how to focus on breathing, how to make peace with their thoughts, how to be more aware, and more. With these materials, the program will help reduce the amount of negative behaviors and distractions from learning so that my students can better focus on their education to become the strongest champions I know they are.
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My students need yoga mats and assistive supplies to incorporate a mindfulness program to teach students self-regulation skills to improve emotional control, focus, awareness, and problem solving skills both inside and outside of the classroom.
| 0 | 1 |
34,812 |
p239897
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194429d70245c93208d2353e1d27b731
|
Mr.
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WI
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2016-12-05 13:57:22
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Grades 9-12
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness
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Raise your Intensity
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My students are upper classman in our high school. We are in an urban setting with over 80% free or reduced lunch. They have to complete 3 classes of Physical Education to graduate. I have about 35 kids in a weight room for get fit stay healthy class. I have multiple classes a day. We learn about the body and make a workout plan for the semester. The students develop a goal for the semester and try to achieve it with my help.
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These heart rate monitors will help my students raise their intensity to help them achieve their fitness goals in my class. As students move around the classroom and get exercise they will have accurate monitors that will help them understand how hard they are working. This hands on activity will evolve my classroom to a whole new level of understanding. I feel this will have a direct reflection on student learning not only about fitness but finding out about themselves and how hard they work. I feel work ethic is declining and this is a great tool to prove if they are working or not.
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My students need to have accurate heart rate for them to understand if they should raise their intensity.
| 4 | 1 |
163,417 |
p069797
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7f0d0735f980067005ffc101dbb0a963
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Mrs.
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SD
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2016-05-25 23:36:12
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Grades 6-8
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Health & Sports
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Team Sports
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Lakota Soccer team
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My students often do not understand the links between things such as writing and reading, or writing and science. It is difficult to have students who are wanting to learn and yet some of the resources are not there. I have the usual eclectic bunch of students, however the problem is that many of them do not think that they will ever leave the reservation.\r\nOne of the side perks of this job is that I get to teach them to dream. Their writing shows that they have dreams and that some of them will be able to reach these dreams with a good education and a little bit of hard work.
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My students are proud members of the Rosebud Indian Reservations. Statistically, my students are at a high risk for diabetes. We want to provide more sports and after school activities for our students, but lack the funds to start more programs. \r\nI have the usual eclectic bunch of students, however the problem is that many of them do not think that they will ever leave the reservation.\r\nOne of the side perks of this job is that I get to teach them to dream. Their passion for sports shows that they have dreams and can improve in subject areas when they get involve in sports. Some of them will be able to reach these dreams with a good education and a little bit of hard work.
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My students need soccer equipment to start our first soccer team next school year. The students are excited, but we lack funding to start this new team.
| 9 | 0 |
56,952 |
p174577
|
4f648ff2dae627a39901e6ffad7051cd
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Mrs.
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FL
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2016-08-16 21:47:39
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Grades 9-12
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Math & Science
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Mathematics
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Striving to Go Beyond the Classroom
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I am currently a 9th grade teacher at a high school that has been labeled as at risk. Many of my students are faced with adversity and challenges on a daily basis. I continually let them know that I commend them for coming to school every day and for putting forth maximum effort. Each day I challenge my students to be better than the day before and to tackle each academic goal with tenacity and confidence. Many of them come in with well below grade level math performances and each day we break down barriers and build up strengths that will help to be successful in life after high school.
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Currently,I am faced with the challenge of giving my students a 21-century education to prepare them to be productive in the 21st century without the proper resources. These laptops with make a complete difference in my class. They will enable me to use all of the resources that are available online for my curriculum. We currently are not able to use a school lab and our curriculum requires us to utilize the online component daily. Additionally,I have a vision of a classroom where I am a facilitator and students use technology to show their understanding. Laptops also allow for flexible seating. Overall these materials will help give my students access to things that they currently do not have that will help them academically.
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My students need laptops to complete the online component of the daily curriculum and to engage in 21st-century learning opportunities.
| 0 | 1 |
29,502 |
p202406
|
8520d5df2faadf19892e1db79e33135c
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Mrs.
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GA
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2016-09-01 01:49:04
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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ESL, Literacy
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Listening is a big part of Learning!
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I have a very happy, energetic, and enthusiastic group of students. They love reading. They are excited about learning. They are very attentive. The are very helpful to one another. They work together as a team. They are kind to one another and they are always willing to help each other.\r\n\r\nI really love that my class is very diverse. The students represent so many nationalities and cultures. It's a beautiful thing to see them and watch them interact with one another. They are not concerned with some of the issues of adults. They are just focused on learning, sharing and helping each other, and being a good friend.
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The materials that I am asking for will be used to set up a listening station. The purpose of the listening station is for students to be able to hear a story being read aloud independently to them. \r\n\r\nThere are some students that need to hear a story repeated over and over again (as they track the print and follow along) in order for it to have meaning to them. The listening station will give students that extra time needed to comprehend what the story is all about. The listening station will be used to help students in the areas of: tracking print, listening, following along, guided reading, reading comprehension and much more.
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My students need a listening station to be able to listen and follow along as a story is being read aloud to them.
| 0 | 0 |
151,492 |
p014369
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9c84b5b0d51afdee6bb6ce57050bdd5c
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-09-01 00:00:21
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Grades 3-5
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences
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Modeling Great Science!
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My science lab is a place of joy and discovery for the TK-5th grade students I teach. As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I am dedicated to providing my students with meaningful learning experiences and access to modern technology. My students are curious to learn more about the world, and are eager to use scientific tools like microscopes to observe their surroundings.
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These materials will help my TK-5th grade scientists learn about and build models of different science concepts. The film cannisters and alka-seltzer tablets will enable my fifth grade chemists/physicists to test and evaluate chemical reactions and rocket systems. The human anatomy models and x-rays will help my budding biologists explore their hidden body systems. The digital microscopes will help students of all ages see deep inside their bodies, insects, rocks, leaves, and other items. The rock sample kits will give young geologists opportunities to explore earth materials that are not available to them in their urban environment. The Sun-Earth-Moon model will help my astronomers understand the movement of bodies in our solar system. Finally, the trays are helpful for organizing supplies by tables, and will be used by all grade levels for gathering investigation supplies.
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My students need materials to help them build and understand models of natural phenomena.
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14,091 |
p054128
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53113a8a4a8359f1e2a0690564bed6c4
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Ms.
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MO
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2016-05-20 21:21:09
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy, Literature & Writing
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Engaging Students in Reading and Learning in Comfort!
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I am a first-year teacher at one of the highest Title 1 population schools in the city. I am very excited to be teaching fifth grade this fall. I myself grew up in poverty and was in the foster care system for many years. I have always dreamed of working at a school where I could serve students facing some of the same obstacles that I did. My passion as an educator lies in engaging and motivating all students to put their hearts into learning.\r\n\r\nI was told to expect that I will have around 25 students in my class- with several of those students having intellectual disabilities, emotional disturbance, autism spectrum disorder and specific learning disabilities. I will also be responsible for the academic achievement of another class of around 25 fifth graders who will rotate into my room each day. I was told to expect that my students will range in reading abilities from a kindergarten to an eighth grade level. In addition, I expect that the families of many of my students will not be able to provide requested school supplies. The students I will teach are highly diverse developmentally, racially, socioeconomically, and in preferred learning styles.
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The district I will be teaching my Title 1 fifth graders in is committed to the use of alternative classroom seating for students. However, the district's resources for seating are traditional tables, desks, and chairs. Alternative seating like the Big Joe Bean Bag Chairs and Tumbling Mats I am requesting for my students are costly. \r\n\r\nAs a first-year teacher, fresh out of college, I have spent as much as I can afford for classroom essentials needed to create a motivating learning environment for my students. After purchasing books, supplies, storage containers, and posters (etc.), there is no room left in my current budget for the alternative seating and engaging book series I know my students would greatly benefit from.\r\n\r\nThe Big Joe Bean Bag Chairs and Tumbling Mats will allow my students to learn in comfort and therefore be more motivated. As the floors in my classroom are cement, the tumbling mats will allow students an alternative place to read and work with plenty of space. The chairs will be a perfect base for our classroom reading/library corner. The books series I requested like the Judy Moody series, the Roald Dahl collection, and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will add so much to the classroom library I hope to provide for my students. Reading is the key to all academic success and I will use these requested books to show my students how exciting becoming a reader for life is!
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My students need alternative seating, such as Big Joe Dorm Chairs, and two Tumbl Trak Mats to read/work in comfort, as well as engaging books to read.
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171,295 |
p216072
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fa2009374f4c58d5b2d8e1a65ff1e6c5
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Mrs.
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PA
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2017-04-06 12:48:19
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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The Fact About Supplies!
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I teach in a very urban community and our school is located in the heart of Erie. My students live in this community that is full of violence and poverty. The families that attend my school are very low-income. My students are provided breakfast, lunch and sometimes even dinner. I want to give these students the things they need to be successful. Teachers and the community donate as much as they can for our students but we still need more help. We want to show our students they matter!
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My students do not have many resources at home. So when it comes to school supplies and books I have to supply it all. Their young minds really enjoy to read! Especially non-fiction. I want to give them a variety of books to choose from to let them discover things. I also want to give them the supplies they need throughout the school year. I buy as much as I can for them and they are very thankful. Please help me supply them with more so that their learning and love of reading can grow like their young minds do everyday!
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My students need some supplies for the school year and some non fiction books to read!
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82,842 |
p136246
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18884e873770c443d15d5693a1674509
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Ms.
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NY
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2016-05-18 23:31:55
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy, Literature & Writing
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Love of literacy - comfort of home
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I teach English Language Arts to two of the most amazing classes of third graders a teacher could ever be lucky enough to have. They LOVE to read and I try my best to bring in high interest texts for them. I would love to have this furniture available to enhance the literacy instruction to my students.\r\n\r\n\r\nFifteen of my fifty-four students ((two classes of 27) receive English as a New Language services inside my ELA classroom. A few have a learning disability or have ADHD. On the other hand, I have many students who are far above grade level. Much of our time together is spent in differentiated guided reading, writing groups or book clubs so we can support each child and help them reach their maximum potential. This furniture would help us in this work. My students work so hard and are truly excited about school. They walk in every day with a smile on their face and are so eager for what we do every day. They deserve more than what my school can afford to provide me with in my classroom. This is why I spend much of my own money on engaging books and supplies.
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This furniture will help to support my efforts in showing my third grade students that reading can be pleasurable! For many of them, reading is not something that comes easily for them so helping to create a classroom that is nurturing and inviting will help to foster a love of literacy! I don't have a classroom that is teacher-centered and this furniture would help to support the way I manage my classroom. An extra horseshoe table would allow me to provide more small group instruction to my students, which helps us to meet their individual goals and push them to the next level.
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My students need a horseshoe table and three beanbag seats to enhance our reader's workshop!
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160,811 |
p216118
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3e30a52898d1a7ab2250f879ddd3578e
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Ms.
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OK
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2017-01-06 13:30:10
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Grades 9-12
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Music & The Arts
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Performing Arts
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Costumes for all classes!
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The school is an urban setting school in the Northwest quadrant of Oklahoma City. 85% of students qualify for free and reduced lunches and most families struggle to meet the day to day needs for their children. Our parents give the support they can afford, but unfortunately students are still left at a financial disadvantage. \r\n\r\nThe students in the Fine Arts Dance class are highly motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic about learning. Despite many challenges these students continue to inspire, create, and perform.
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The JM dancers have their final Spring Dance Show in March to showcase what they have been working on all year. Each student needs a costume to wear in the show and this year there are about 120 students in our department. We are given a very strict budget to work with each year to get the necessary supplies for our department, but we were only able to get a few costumes with this money. If each student is costumed, it makes their spring dance show experience so much better with actual costumes to wear onstage instead of regular t-shirts. \r\nThe students in the Fine Arts Dance class are highly motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic about learning.\r\nDespite many challenges these students continue to inspire, create, and perform.\r\n
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My students need costumes desperately. I have larger classes this year and very few costumes to use or that are the correct sizes.
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973 |
p055799
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0641345f40b0f1d22cfcb0725f937f7c
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Mrs.
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TN
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2016-08-25 15:18:20
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literacy, Mathematics
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We Need Supplies For The New School Year!
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My students live in the highest crime rate zip code in a large urban city. They are enthusiastic learners and love to learn anything new! They come to school daily despite the challenges they face at home. Often times, they are on our porch up to an hour before school starts, waiting eagerly for the school day to begin.\r\nWe are surrounded by schools that have been taken over by the state, but yet we stand, untouched, and we are a reward school!\r\n\r\nMy students work hard and deserve just as much as any other school in our large urban district. Even with everything against them, they still show up to school every day, ready and willing to learn.
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We will use these supplies to maintain our interactive notebooks. We love to use our notebooks, from word sorts to math skills, we are always cutting and gluing something in the classroom. These requested glue, pencils, and copy paper would restock the supplies that we seem to always need. The students would not have it any other way either. When I assign a workbook page, the students actually ask for an interactive notebook page, whether I have one or not.\r\n\r\n These basic supplies will help my students start the school year strong with the supplies they need to support their learning.\r\n\r\nWe have books, computers, and countless other resources, but these supplies tend to get overlooked. We need these supplies to support our learning.
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My students need basic supplies such as glue, crayons, and copy paper to help us start the school year.
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121,269 |
p234898
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112643ba9b44a10473db4fc384ea1211
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-08-06 05:38:11
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Health & Wellness
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Illness Prevention Efforts = Greater Student Achievement
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Excellent attendance is key to student success. If students are out of school frequently due to illness, they receive less instructional time. Having the essential supplies to keep our classroom clean and minimize the spread of germs will keep my students healthy and in their seats, ready to learn.\r\n\r\n We are a Title I school with a population of 83% of our students (46% African Americans, 45% Latinos, and 9% Asian, White, and mixed heritage students) who qualify for free breakfast and lunch, and lack sufficient cleaning supplies to keep us healthy throughout the school year. \r\n\r\nOur school's magnet focus is Language Arts, but our second focus is social justice. Students examine the challenges our society faces and determine ways they can contribute to solve existing problems. My students recognize that they are citizens of a global world and their voice and actions are critical in affecting change.
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Fifth grade is a pivotal year in which every minute of class is preparing students for the challenges and rigor of middle school. In order for my students to be in optimum health to participate and engage in their learning, they must stay as healthy as possible. One way I can help keep my students healthy and minimize the spread of germs is by providing ample amounts of tissue so they can blow their noses, have hand sanitizer on hand to keep hands germ free, and keep our desk tops clean with the use of disinfecting sanitizing wipes. It's very difficult for our parents to take off work to care for their children when they are ill and they will often be sent to school. As a result, you get this domino effect where one student comes in ill, then others follow suit. By having these necessary supplies, we can minimize the spread of germs and their days out of the classroom, and increase their instructional minutes per day. We go through about 4-5 boxes of tissue per month during flu season.\r\nIn an effort to improve attendance this year and increase student achievement, it is critical we have sanitizing wipes to keep our desks clean, as well as hand sanitizer, and facial tissue to minimize the spread of germs. \r\nStudents who are healthy are more engaged during classroom lessons and can focus on the task of learning. Your generous donation will help keep my students healthy and ready to learn each day. Help keep my students healthy!
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My students need facial tissue to dry runny noses, hand sanitizer to clean hands of germs, and disinfecting wipes to wipe their work areas clean to prevent the spread of germs.
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171,994 |
p118762
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7ab26a961f2962d74b501645f727ff32
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Mrs.
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LA
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2016-12-05 15:23:04
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Literature & Writing
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GRABS YOUR BALLS AND LEARN
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My Students\r\n\r\nMy students are super excited about learning and love school. They are eager to learn and want to be their best. However, they have a hard time sitting still and focusing during a lesson.\r\n\r\nI really think that by allowing my students to sit on stability balls, their ability to focus will increase drastically.\r\nWhile they are learning, they can slightly bounce instead of playing in their desk or with their pencil. Also, several students get out of their seat because they cannot sit still for so long. These stability balls are the answer to our problem!\r\n\r\n
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My student are very energetic first graders and they love to learn. we are in a very low poverty school and a lot of my students have behavior issues.I have found if i let them move around and such they actually get their work done, as this is the goal i ws pleased. Now i just need to get enough stability balls for the whole class to enjoy movement as they learn. \r\n\r\nYour donation will make it easier for my students to learn hands on and still be aloud to be children at the same time. Whatever you can offer would be greatly appreciated and i know my little ones would just be so grateful.
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My students need stability balls to learn and still get their energy out at the same time
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83,219 |
p061234
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e84fa3ffaa8caffeca1866dfefce2ad8
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-06-05 00:02:27
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language, Special Needs
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Literacy, Special Needs
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Help Us Get More Books at Our Level!
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I am a teacher of Mild to Moderate Special Education students. They range from having Speech and Language disabilities to having Autism. My students attend a Title 1 School, in Milpitas, CA. Their parents work very hard to make sure that they are able to have what they need. My school does the best is can to make sure that our students get the supplies that they need. Being a Special Education class we need specific materials to help the students learn and have access to materials at their levels. \r\nThe students in my class are at least 3 grade levels below where they should be. We work very hard to teach them and help them retain what they are learning.
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This project will help my students' because they are all transitioning from picture books to chapter books or beginning chapter books to harder books. Our goal for the next school year is to have 100% of our class reading chapter books. We will be doing a Reading Workshop model in my class next school year and each student will set the goal to read more chapter books. \r\nThese books are at a variety of levels and will help my students' reach their reading goal. These books will expose them to new genres that they would not usually pick out on their own. As a teacher this gives me more options with different levels of chapter books to suggest to my students.
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My students need these books to help them with the transition to reading longer chapter books. These books with help with our independent reading time during our Reading Workshop.
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106,491 |
p256590
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a5114776a20d8d96f54e089b9abd95d9
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Ms.
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NY
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2016-12-20 12:23:19
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning, Literacy & Language
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College & Career Prep, Literacy
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Empowering Students Through Collaboration
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My students are a lively and energetic group of first graders who have a lot to say but need increased opportunities to be engaged in learning activities where they can read and write about topics and things that are important to them. Our school is located in the South Bronx, in an area with a very high concentration of poverty. Most, if not all, of my students, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.\r\n\r\n\"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"
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\"No man is an island.\" People cannot thrive in isolation. Everyone wants to be on a winning TEAM! I teach my students that there is no 'I' in team. \"T.E.A.M.\" simply means, \"Together, Everyone Achieves More!\r\n\r\nMy students attend an pre-kindergarten through grade 5 elementary school in New York City.\r\nOur school is located in an area of the South Bronx with a very high concentration of poverty. Most, if not all, of my students are eligible for free lunch. My students are receiving academic intervention services (AIS) because they have not meet academic benchmarks in reading and math. This project will boost their confidence and place them on the path to academic success.\r\n\r\nMy Project\r\n\r\nMy students need chart paper, highlighters, sticky notes, pencils and pens to facilitate project-based learning activities. Well, we know that as adults when we are interested in something, our curiosity is ignited and we want to learn more. No question, learning is the same for children. So how do students learn BEST? No doubt, first and foremost when they are active participants in their own learning. The resources that I am requesting will enable TEAMS of students to develop presentation skills as they SHARE and SHOW what they are learning with others in science, math, social studies, and English language arts. In literacy, for example, students can use the pencils and sticky notes to keep track of their thinking, noting questions, key ideas etc, as they read fiction and nonfiction texts. Groups of students can use the chart paper to create visual representations.\r\n\r\nPlease consider funding this project! Your support will, no doubt, keep my students actively engaged in their own learning, bring the magic back to learning and help to foster a culture of COMPREHENSION and COLLABORATION!
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My students need chart paper, markers, an electric sharpener, pencils, sticky notes , pens, and snacks for project-based learning activities.
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84,270 |
p250965
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8aa7cf2d200176e0b3a8616f642646a2
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Ms.
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TX
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2017-01-27 09:46:03
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Grades 3-5
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Math & Science
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Health & Life Science, Mathematics
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Chrome your way through technology!
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Our classroom is an exciting and innovative place where students come to learn, discover, explore, and become passionate learners. On a daily basis, students must acquire new skills leading to new technology during their lessons. Students come in for reading, math, spelling, grammar, social studies and science. All the 25 students that I service are learning English as a second language. Students in our classroom are actively involved to learn new ideas daily that help them be 21st century learner. Our classroom consist of all the students along the US-Mexico border.
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This project will help promote new learning skills for our students using technology. Currently, our classroom has only 3 working desktop computers and implying technology in our everyday learning is difficult for 25 students. Students will use Chromebooks during classroom time and will help students with projects they are assigned for every concept. Students will be able to collaborate and learn from the many resources available on our educational platform. Our school is in a high poverty area. Our students receive 100% free lunch. Many of our students are not exposed to new technology, making the library and school a wonderful opportunity for them to become exposed to excellent sources of information. \r\nYour donation will provide our students with the exposure and opportunities that they may not otherwise experience. \r\nThe purpose of this project is to provide our students the chance to become 21st Century learners. They can come to their classroom to build, explore, create and invent. Students will have access to materials during class time and after school hours. \r\nExposing our students to research skills in school will help them to become critical thinkers. \r\n
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My students need need Chromebooks and Chrome Management Console licenses for our classroom to work on research skills and embed them on their lessons. Please help my students acquire these tools to become 21st Century.
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136,257 |
p120950
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18b42a21b08dda1e0788525af1163ab4
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Ms.
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MN
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2016-08-20 14:16:14
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy, Literature & Writing
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Wobble Chairs for Different Learning Styles
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My students are from diverse, socioeconomic backgrounds and ethnicities. They are hardworking and want to do their best. I want to provide them with a stimulating environment that encourages respect, innovation, creativeness, and collaboration. Many students come to school wanting to learn and we want them to continue to be enthusiastic about learning. Our school reaches out to families by having family fun nights, traveling to their neighborhoods for tutoring sessions, and having fun nights at school to build a sense of community.
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All children deserve to learn based on their learning styles. We have several wiggly first-graders that could benefit by using wobble chairs. I feel they would be more engaged with projects by being able to wobble and move around more while learning. First-graders spend much of their day participating in literacy activities. Hence, they have to sit much. This is challenging for young children. I feel that wobble chairs will help! Kids will be excited with different seating options while reading, writing, and learning. I am excited to get 21st century seating in my classroom. Thank you for considering a donation!
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My students need wobble chairs to be able to actively move when they are learning. I try to teach to visual, auditory and tactile/kinesthetic learners. These chairs will help the tactile/kinesthetic learner.
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57,019 |
p222903
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4416745560343f14a74dedcda4ec03b0
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Ms.
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PA
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2017-03-15 21:19:31
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Grades 3-5
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Everyday Life Essentials Needed
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Lively, energetic, and kind are three words I would use to describe my young learners. Every day, they do their best to achieve all that they can. My students desperately want to be actively involved in what they do in the classroom.\r\n\r\nLiving in a large city can be difficult for many young children. My young learners live close to the downtown area in our city. They go to a Title I school, where all students receive free breakfast and lunch daily. Their basic food needs, except for dinner, are taken care of, but now they need something to sustain their minds.
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My students are on the verge of adolescents and should have access to items and opportunities to maintain personal hygiene at all times. Children who come to school with poor personal hygiene are often times ostracized by peers who react negatively toward them. Sometimes, even teachers are less likely to come into close proximity of them due to their special scent. Many children have never been taught the importance of maintaining personal hygiene as a healthy habit.\r\n\r\nMy 9 to 11 year olds are experiencing so many physical and emotional changes, personal hygiene should be one barrier that is eliminated from hindering learning in the classroom and at home.\r\n\r\nYour help will provide my students with much needed essentials to care for themselves in a better way. Healthy habits need to be taught and maintained. Thank you advance for your help!
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My students need Colgate toothpaste, Colgate Kids 2-in-1 Toothpaste and Mouthwash, ACT Kids Anti-cavity Fluoride Rinse, Plackers Kids Flossers, and 3 in 1 Shampoo + Conditioner + Body Wash and deodorant.
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152,310 |
p102716
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d84108f55621946e935cfaf630377d2f
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Mrs.
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DE
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2016-09-20 15:01:24
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science, Applied Learning
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Mathematics, Parent Involvement
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Making Learning and Movement in the Classroom Safe and Productive.
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I teach 2nd grade in a title 1 school with students that come from 3 small towns to make up our district. With budget cuts it is increasing difficult to afford the materials and extras that make learning more engaging and better utilize the classroom space that we have. These students want to learn but face challenges that make it hard to get extra support outside of the classroom with so many being raised by single parents holding more than one job or grandparents that are on a fixed income.\r\n\r\nWe are trying to make great things happen in the confines of our classroom.\r\n\r\nWe are in need of seating alternatives for small group instruction, privacy screens to help students stay focused during important instructional tasks. We would also like 1 more ipad to allow students to practice important skills and document their learning on our class dojo story page to help the parents feel connected to the classroom and give the students a sense of pride in their work.
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The stools will make it easy for 8 children to fit comfortably around the reading table even if they are in the area that is near the table legs. The stools will tuck under the table when we are not at group so no child or teacher trips on the chair legs that stick out because the table's legs prevent the chairs from pushing all the way under the table. \r\nThe privacy screens will replace the ones I have had for the past 7 years. My old ones are having trouble staying up and over the years have marks or holes that the students have a hard time ignoring. \r\nWe are using class dojo to encourage good chocies and celebrate student's sucesses and allows parents to know what is happening in the classroom. With an additional ipad (with a protective cover) students can record each other reading, their great work and projects and the pictures/video can be posted for all parents to see. This will help motivate students to get involved in their learning.
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My students need stools for reading groups, privacy screens for testing and an ipad to post pictures for parents to witness the great learning taking place in class.
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3,712 |
p213909
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c24cb507ff801f39dbc8c5204423b2e2
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Ms.
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NY
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2016-07-08 10:10:12
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Grades 9-12
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History & Civics, Music & The Arts
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History & Geography, Visual Arts
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Art & Social Studies Go Hand In Hand: Supplies Needed
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I teach at a Title I school on the Upper Westside of Manhattan. My students come from economically marginalized communities and many have weak educational backgrounds. Many of my students are first-generation immigrants, balancing English language acquisition while acclimating to American culture. Education is the key for my students to break intergenerational poverty.\r\n\r\nMy students are inquisitive and curious about other cultures. Many of my students live very insular lives even though they live in NYC. While my students are exposed to other peoples and cultures, that contact is superficial. Whenever we are able to move past the superficial understanding of a culture and into deeper understanding, my students develop empathy and cultural capital at the same time.
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As a Social Studies teacher, I believe art is the perfect accompaniment to understanding history. Children are natural visual learners, teenagers are no different. In fact, at a time in their lives when students feel most vulnerable (teenage years), project-based art projects allow students autonomy and creativity in relating to complex historical events. Furthermore, historical art projects allow differentiated learners to realize their potential. History comes alive when students can visualize the characters they are reading about and develop empathy and understanding across cultures and time-periods. Art infuses every unit I teach and this grant will allow for artistic flexibility throughout multiple projects. There is one project in particular however that was incredibly successful last year and through trial and error I now know what is needed for optimum success. \r\n\r\nAs a NYC Social Studies teacher, I believe it is important to access the professional and creative world that is an integral part of the larger city. To that end, I bring all of my students to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attend professional development opportunities whenever possible. Last year I attended a wonderful professional development at the Intrepid Air Museum. The day centered around, \"On the Line: Intrepid and the Vietnam War.\" We engaged in a wonderful museum project that I successfully turn-keyed to all of the Global History classes and the AP World History class. During the spring students created creative, intricate, inspiring, and thoughtful exhibits about the Cold War that demonstrated research skills, artistic skills and clear attempts at professional presentation. The only hindrance to my student's ideas was a lack of professional supplies. \r\nThis mini-grant will provide my classroom with necessary art supplies for the school year. These supplies will allow my students to actualize their creativity and expression of history through art.
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My students need construction paper, watercolors, paint, paint brushes, baubles, ribbons, hot glue guns, and a professional \"Cricut Explore Air Wireless Cutting Machine\" for art projects in Social Studies.
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116,644 |
p076305
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b67f3445a481653a1ffe088a1d2f0cf5
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-09-10 16:18:25
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Grades 9-12
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Applied Learning
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College & Career Prep, Parent Involvement
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Dream It then Do IT!
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Our students are dreamers and do-ers! Over the years, our kids have led community groups for our new teen center, guided our school through the development of a new Code of Conduct for students and faculty, and have worked on numerous beautification projects on school grounds and throughout our local neighborhoods. They volunteer at local elementary schools serving as strong role models to our K-8 community by demonstrating a love of learning. Many are low-income students yet wholeheartedly give whatever time and resources they can to others.
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This college night event will share inspirational stories and materials to show students they CAN afford college. This event will promote applying to college and FAFSA. Also, our students hope to create t-shirts to advocate for a college-going attitude using the iron-on paper; they want to make them for participants.\r\nOur students dream of going to college but do not always have the means to do it. The books about affording college and SAT preparation will be available for students to flip through that night and then be available to check out from our college center. All of our students need to know that if they dream it, they can do it!
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My students need materials for college night and center. They would like to create t-shirts to give out at the event and have books for student checkout from the center.
| 0 | 1 |
28,718 |
p062305
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bdcd3951c85d316ca808cea8187ca51a
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Mrs.
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MI
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2016-05-17 13:55:24
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Grades 6-8
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History & Civics, Math & Science
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History & Geography, Mathematics
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Sensational Scholarly Supplies
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Our students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences. We service students from many school districts who are looking for a family atmosphere and smaller class sizes. We are a charter school that works with students of all ethnicities, socio-economic statuses, and individualized education programs. A large majority of our students are considered high poverty and would love the opportunity to use supplies and items that are not easily accessible to them. Our goal is to increase student learning for ALL students, regardless of circumstances or difficulties.
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The materials I have requested will help my students complete every day math tasks, such as graphing linear equations, solving algebraic equations, and drawing graphs. Other items such as paper, crayons, calculators and pencil sharpeners are basic supplies that every student deserves to have at their disposal to complete their homework. \r\n\r\nI use small dry erase boards in my class so that they may have the opportunity to write out and solve problems on their own as we move through the lesson. The markers will allow them to do this. Many of my students struggle with basic supplies, such as paper and pencil. They certainly don't have their own dry erase markers to use. \r\n\r\nI am hoping that these supplies will help make each student feel successful while reaching their full potential in the classroom!
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My students need school supplies such as graph paper, calculators, pencil sharpeners, books, and markers to complete daily assignments and tasks.
| 3 | 1 |
113,868 |
p152638
|
e2ce237ab0fe638649def5c3a9cd83a6
|
Mr.
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MN
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2016-07-31 17:06:41
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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Elementary Literacy Fair 2016
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Our school is located in a very rural setting in northern Minnesota. Many of the students come from homes where one or both parents are unemployed or working part-time and living well below the poverty line. Over half of our students are currently participating in the Free or Reduced lunch program.\r\n\r\nDespite financial hardships, the students come to us with a love of learning and a passion to succeed. Our students enjoy being part of the school community and participating in everything that makes our school great.
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The high school students in our chapter of The National Honor Society will be hosting their second annual Elementary Literacy Fair this fall. The purpose of the fair is to provide an opportunity for families to spend a night together reading books, playing games, and having a good time. \r\n\r\nWhat better prize is there than a new book? Students participating in the Literacy Fair will play carnival games at the school. Instead of winning cheap trinkets, the students will win new books. Since many families cannot afford to buy books for their children, this project will have a major impact on their lives.
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My students need books that will get them excited about reading. The books in this project are ideal for young readers and will instill in them a love of reading.
| 5 | 1 |
113,107 |
p102811
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1fc85278e3869866e1afe22cf1493b5b
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Mr.
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IL
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2017-04-23 17:38:43
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Grades PreK-2
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Applied Learning, Music & The Arts
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Early Development, Visual Arts
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Construction Paper and Glue Sticks for Pre-K Art
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The pre-K students that I teach art to are adorable little people that come to class and seem to want to give me a hug every time i greet them at the door. I love these little kids because they are so eager to learn everything and are so willing to follow directions. The students range from 3 to 5 years old and it is amazing to see the wide range of fine motor skills that they exhibit. It is fun to watch them make art because everything is so new to them. \r\nThe magic of art and colors to a pre-k student seems to light up their eyes in a way that warms my heart.
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My students will use construction paper, glue sticks, and tag board to draw and collage self-portraits. The students need a variety of colors and something substantial like vivid heavy weight construction paper and glue sticks in order to engage with the project. I am asking the students to rip up the construction paper and glue it down to the tag board after they draw their faces. We are exploring the origins of the term \"selfie\" and want to be creative and make self-portraits. My students will use these materials to make a series of faces to learn about themselves but to also explore mood with facial expressions. We need red paper to express mad and blue paper to express blue and so on.
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My students need construction paper and glue sticks to make self-portraits.
| 32 | 1 |
165,680 |
p085847
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5dbcd6cb37cbd8938a997d0158cc8b55
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Ms.
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MA
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2017-04-13 10:28:03
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Grades 9-12
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Stayin' Alive
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My students are driven to succeed because the learning environment is fun and engaging. They truly enjoy health class as it is safe and welcoming class where they can explore who they are. The class is designed to help young people make good decisions for themselves, their families, and their community. \r\n\r\nMy school is an urban school with a large minority and immigrant population. Within our city, our supplies are very limited. I want my students to feel worthy and deserving of new materials. \r\n\r\nMy classroom has a strong sense of community where the students are encouraged to collaborate, ask questions, and think to the next level.
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These materials will be used to help me teach CPR/AED/First Aid to my students. CPR and First Aid are important skills for everyone to learn. Student's could potentially make a difference in their community by saving someone's life. I already have mannequins and a trainer AED. However, we need the student work book to help learn First Aid. We need the bag-valve-mask to practice rescue breathing on the mannequins. I need the first aid kit to go over the necessary equipment for basic first aid. And the DVD will be used in an interactive way to quiz the students at the end of the unit.
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My students need the first aid DVD, a bag-mask-valve, a work book, and a first aid kit to learn & practice CPR/AED/First Aid.
| 4 | 1 |
32,236 |
p141606
|
724e58de8cc798335a71f3a1013ce83d
|
Ms.
|
FL
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2017-01-20 12:39:14
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Grades 3-5
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Essential Items for the Weekend
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My students are very sweet and loving kids. They are always happy to come to school and sometimes don't want to leave. They sometimes come to school hungry, and luckily my school offers free breakfast for the entire school. That is due is part because we have over 80% of students who are receiving free or reduced lunch. I care about my third graders so much and I want to make sure they are able to eat when they are at home as well.
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My school is a Title I school where 80% or more of our students are qualified for free or reduced lunch. We have a Universal Breakfast, which means every child in the school is able to eat a free breakfast each day. But, over the weekend they may not eat very much due to not having the money for food. By packing bags with items such as Ramen noodles, macaroni and cheese, slim jims, crackers, fruit snacks and more, I will know that my students will have something in their belly when they are not in school. \r\n\r\nThis project will help supply the students in need of food, the items they need to make it through the weekend. I was absolutely thrilled to hear that DonorsChoose.org was now offering \"Essential Needs\" to the schools who need those kind of items. This project will definitely help the students in my classroom and possibly others.
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My students need crackers, fruit snacks, mac-n-cheese, soup, and other food for over the weekend.
| 60 | 1 |
16,975 |
p033504
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b6893f547aa11258080ccadc2e8a4bed
|
Ms.
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FL
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2016-09-30 17:42:44
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Grades PreK-2
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Literacy & Language, Math & Science
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Literacy, Mathematics
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Building Brain Power With Technology
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Our school serves students in grades K-7 and provides rigorous academics, creative teachers, and a safe learning environment. As a STEM school, we focus on science and math, and love doing creative projects to make students think outside the box. My students are some of the sweetest children I have ever come across. Each and every one of them has a heart of gold. They like to move, they love to learn, and love lots of positive attention. They deserve the best, and I am determined to give it to them.
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Having the set of tablets will allow for an engaging and exciting learning experience for my students. Students learn at different paces and through different learning styles. It is particularly important during the formative years in elementary school, that students get the personalized learning they need. That’s where the tablet comes in. I can reinforce what is being taught with the tablets, allowing students to practice certain skills at their own level and pace. Apps on the tablet are changing the way students grasp new concepts, and allow them an infinite amount of opportunities to learn. Fun educational games can really take learning to a whole new level getting students more excited than ever.
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My students need 5 Tablets and cases to do all the things that will make them successful in this 21st century learning environment.
| 0 | 1 |
28,971 |
p190015
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521a41c9813c97172110450672946dae
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Ms.
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NJ
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2016-08-09 19:33:33
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Grades 3-5
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Math & Science
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Applied Sciences, Mathematics
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STEM Education: For Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Lovers!
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\"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.\" --Rosalind Franklin. Over 50 percent of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S. are math, science, or technology related.\r\n\r\nMy students love hands-on, interactive activities, so why not make them STEM related? In addition, they have a natural interest and curiosity in exploring how things work. Please help my students be able to express joy in completing these activities and find their own fun, while educating themselves at their own pace!
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According to the Department of Education, all STEM jobs in the U.S. will increase 14 percent from 2010-2020, but data shows that 3 million of those jobs will go unfilled by 2018. One reason is that not enough students seriously consider a career in STEM.\r\n\r\nI want to challenge myself to help change these statistics; starting with the students in my classroom. The purchase of this STEM bundle will be the first step in feeling comfortable teaching STEM related lessons for my students. I want my students to engage in questioning, problem solving, collaboration, and hands-on activities, while they address real life issues. In addition, I believe I can create logical thinkers, effective communicators, who are technologically, scientifically, and mathematically literate through the use of this STEM bundle. \r\n\r\nYour help, along with my motivation can assist my students create and maintain an interest in math and science!
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My students need a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) bundle, comfortable bean bag seats for an alternative reading space, information organizers, and seat storage sacks to keep our learning environment tidy.
| 4 | 0 |
58,604 |
p248713
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c556083375047e2761cdd0784c2a1187
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Mr.
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ID
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2016-12-09 12:37:27
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Grades 9-12
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Music & The Arts
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Performing Arts
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Feel The THUNDER!
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Offering our music students the chance to succeed is my top priority. We strive daily to make opportunities available for our high school students to further their musical skills and expand their horizons.\r\nStudents attending our school have earned recognition at the District, State, Regional and National level. We have alumni working on Broadway, teaching college and public school music, and performing as professionals all over the world. Our music department has a 100+ year history of excellence and we try every day to live up to that legacy. \r\nWe offer Jazz Band, two level of String Orchestra and Concert Band, Pep Band and Marching Band. We also have strong Choral, Guitar, Drama and Fine Arts programs.
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These cymbals will complete our set of marching band accessories. We have been working up to this for many years and I am looking forward to completing this set of cymbals. They sound great, but we only have one pair at this time. Adding two additional pairs will make our snare drums and drumline in general pop even more. We take great pride in our drumline and having all the bells and whistles will make it even better. The community requests our kids to perform all the time and this will make our impact even stronger. Thank you for your support.
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My students need two more sets of marching band hi-hat cymbals to complete our drumline!
| 15 | 1 |
41,570 |
p220994
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a5217c8be6e03f3f7f34563ace57946f
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Ms.
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LA
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2016-08-08 09:41:53
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Grades 6-8
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Math & Science
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Mathematics
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Shaping Minds with Geoboards!
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I teach at a Title 1 school where the majority of my students live in a low income area and many others are actually homeless. However, they still come to school and try to be the best that they can be. Some students are lucky to even have a pencil and paper everyday but mostly the teachers provide it for them. \r\n\r\nAbout 90% or more of our students are on the free breakfast and lunch program. I would say only about 75% of the students bring a backpack to schools and half of them have nothing in them except for their gym uniform. The majority of these students will be the first in their family to graduate.\r\n\r\nOur school serves students in grades 7-12 and provides rigorous academics, with fantastic teachers ,and a safe learning environment. Each year we are trying to score a higher grade for the school. The students want their school to be the best title 1 school in the parish and we are almost there. Even though many say they can not do it, the students are proving them wrong every year. In four years, we went from having a 46% graduation rate to 96%.
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The use of geoboards is a great hands on learning for students in math. The geoboards allow me to see exactly what they are doing, as well as provide an easy place for them to show and share their work. What becomes a problem is the fact that my students can not see the different dimensions or feel how something moves in a plan on a sheet of paper. They are able to see me do it all do but a lot of my students need to feel how something works and not just see it.\r\n\r\nBy donating to our project, you will not only help to improve and increase student attention and focus, you will ultimately help to increase their academic achievement with hands on learning.\r\nStudents will be able to simply focus on the academic material at hand, and I will be able to teach the different types of learning styles with this geoboard!
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My students need help visualizing geometric shapes and anything on the coordinate plane. These geoboards will give my students the hands on learning they need to be successful in geometry.
| 3 | 1 |
76,780 |
p245940
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e602b8d4479ac6ccac9301a342fe163e
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Mrs.
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CA
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2016-10-19 14:50:15
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Grades 3-5
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Special Needs
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Special Needs
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Shelves for Success! Independent work station needs sturdy shelving.
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I've dedicated my teaching career to working with students with \"moderate to severe\" developmental disabilities. Many of my current students have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down's Syndrome, or Intellectual Disabilities. My class currently supports 11 students, some of whom have assigned 1:1 aides to help them be safe and successful at school. \r\n\r\nThis is an amazing group of special education students, each with their own talents, strengths, and challenges, and it's my job to find ways to engage and motivate them to excel.\r\n\r\nSpecial education students need a higher level of organization and structure, and access to a primarily hands-on, flexible learning curriculum and environment.
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My students need to work on increasing their independence and ability to complete a task without direct adult prompting. An independent work station involves supplying the students with \"task boxes\" that are arranged on a shelf. The student goes over to the work station, pulls out the correct task box, and completes the work by themselves. Sturdy shelving is needed to hold all these task boxes! Students need to be able to access them easily and without having to move around other supplies. \r\n\r\nThese sturdy shelves allow the students to access their independent work boxes easily and help keep the area organized so they can focus on success!
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My students need sturdy shelving and storage for an \"Independent Work\" station. Students will take a work-bin off the shelf and complete the task by themselves, teaching them independence, following written/picture instructions, and perseverance.
| 1 | 1 |
148,650 |
p211338
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e78a899a9566225b5dbb262cb67e962c
|
Ms.
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PA
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2016-05-11 11:08:31
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Grades 9-12
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Math & Science
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Health & Life Science
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What Are We Made Of?
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The classroom is a dynamic place where students can experience science and not just hear about it. The class offers hands on experimentation, CGI to show processes in the body on a cellular level, and many real world examples to help the students make a connection to the material.
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The students here at the school are personable, energetic, and excited to be at school. Attendance is usually between 90%-95%. The students show respect for themselves, for each other, and for their school. We promote acceptance and do not tolerate bullying or any other disruptive/negative behavior. The students have a great rapport with the staff and are aware of our expectations for behavior and work ethic.
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The materials will be used to reinforce content learned in the classroom. The articulated skeleton can be used to study the skeleton as a whole system or individual parts can be removed for closer studying of its function in that system. It can also be used as an assessment tool and the students can visit and revisit stations and answer questions about that bone.
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Your donations to this project will provide the students with materials that they can explore in further detail. It will provide them with learning tools that could increase their learning in the classroom. It may also stimulate a passion for this area and possibly create a new career path. This class is newly developed so we do not have an abundance of materials. This would greatly contribute to our curriculum.
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My students need an Articulated Skeleton to provide a visual example of our skeletal system.
| 0 | 1 |
18,631 |
p252469
|
abff149999f35e905616ca8216d9bc3a
|
Mrs.
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SC
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2017-02-07 19:53:52
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Health & Wellness
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Wobble, Wiggle, and Bounce to Learn!
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My students have such awesome potential! I can see it in their bright faces each morning. I plan lessons that include activities that engage the children and allow them to move throughout the day. The more they move, the better they learn! They have so much energy, especially my boys! \r\n\r\nOur school is a Title I school with over 60% of our students receiving free or reduced lunch. I have a diverse class made up of fabulous children who are working hard every day. Not only are my students ethnically and economically diverse, they also are academically diverse. In my class I have 6 students who receive special education services. These students are below grade level in areas, but they succeed in the general education classroom.
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The Bouncy Bands will be attached to each student's desk. This will allow them to move their little feet throughout the day when they need to get the \"wiggles\" out. Students can move, keep their energy up, and stay focused on learning. The stability discs will be used by two special students who really need to be able to move even more. I know these easy additions to their seats will make a huge impact!\r\n\r\nBy donating to this project you will help my students get the movement they so desperately need during the school day. They will have a positive outlet to help them with the extra energy they always seem to have. These products allow students to move and learn simultaneously! I can't wait to see how excited my students will be to have these learning tools in our classroom!\r\n
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My students need just six more Bouncy Bands for every student to have one! Two students would benefit greatly from using stability discs to help them get the extra wiggles out during the school day.
| 6 | 1 |
20,131 |
p123420
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928c4c80bef13b306031b2205da893c1
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Mrs.
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MI
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2017-03-12 19:45:05
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Grades 9-12
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Warmth, Care & Hunger
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Weekend Meals for Hungry Teens
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I work in a rural district classified as highest poverty in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, teaching students in eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade English Language Arts. All students are offered free breakfast and lunch.\r\nWhen students get their breakfasts, I see that some of them collect what others don't eat.\r\n I've watched certain students fill their hoodie pockets or even bring in a large baggie to collect snacks to take home for later. Teachers notice when students aren't getting enough to eat at home, and, unfortunately, I see that with some students in my own classroom. This project is one way that I can think of to help.\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Not all students go home to a warm casserole being pulled from the oven. I know that some of my students don't get enough to eat on the weekends. My plan is to keep a cabinet stocked with weekend meals. I have requested high protein items such as beef stew, chili, SpaghettiOs with meatballs, beef with vegetables and barley soup, beef ravioli, scalloped potatoes with ham, beans with hotdogs, smoked sausage, peanut butter, Nutella, nuts, etc. There are oatmeal packets, cereal cups, fruit bowls packed in juice, granola bars, pudding, mac and cheese, and popcorn. I've also requested drinks such as chocolate milk with extended shelf life and 100% juices.\r\nLet's give these teens hope and let them know we care.
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My students need high protein meals and 100 percent juice beverages to take home on the weekends.
| 99 | 1 |
59,800 |
p210527
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fe10e8761c955ec34218f8080e3479d1
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Ms.
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CA
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2016-11-18 17:26:56
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Grades 3-5
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Literacy & Language
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Literacy
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All it takes is one LIBRARY!
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There are simply not enough positive words in the English language to adequately describe my unbelievably motivated and hard working 3rd grade class! I am humbled beyond belief to have the privilege to work with and serve such a wonderful group of young boys and girls. \r\n\r\nThe population I serve is almost 100% Hispanic and most students come from very modest means. Given their backgrounds, they, in turn, regard school with the utmost respect! It is my responsibility to ensure the highest quality education for them to the best of my ability!
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My students' life will indefinitely be impacted by this project, because the goal is to enhance their love for reading, which as we all know has the ability to open the door to amazing and productive futures. These students will then take this passion for learning home with them to share with their parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, foster parents, group home leaders, and who knows who else! The impact a book can have is limitless! That is what I want to share with my students! A profound passion for reading and learning! This would be a boundless gift for all of them!
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My students need materials to enhance our classroom library, including comfortable furniture to create an inviting environmet, as well as a wide variety of books, to reach every student's interests, to enhance their love for reading!
| 8 | 0 |
96,641 |
p237864
|
cceb81026bdc4bfc1ce3e6adf123dd78
|
Ms.
|
CA
|
2016-08-06 19:08:30
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Grades 3-5
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Health & Sports
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Gym & Fitness
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Third Grade Marathon Runners!
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I teach a group of motivated, rambunctious, diverse, and caring third graders. Together, we challenge each other and work cooperatively to learn academic and life skills. Academically, it is a very diverse group with many gifted students and also many students who need additional support. It's an amazing blend of energetic students!\r\n\r\nAt our school, the third graders interact with each other throughout the week; the students switch classes for a variety of reasons. I work closely with my grade-level partners to ensure that a strong sense of community is built among the students. Sometimes we are differentiating to meet the students' needs, and sometimes we are combining classes to build community.\r\n\r\n
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My students love to move! As a third grade teacher, I teach all physical education with my students, and they are always excited for P.E. time! As a school, we participate in a running program that encourages students to run a marathon throughout the year. My third graders are always enthusiastic about running and ask constantly if we can go out to run laps. They track their laps by collecting hair ties from me when they complete a lap, and then we tally all the laps and track our progress throughout the year.\r\n\r\nMy students suggested that we use FitBits to track our marathon progress instead. I'm sure that having these FitBits will encourage them to be more active throughout the day, and also inspire students to encourage each other to remain active. We can make comparisons and test our hypothesis that having FitBits will make us more active, healthy, and happy learners!\r\n
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My students need FitBits to use during P.E. time so they can keep track of how many miles they have run (toward their goal of running a marathon)!
| 0 | 1 |
66,031 |
p132491
|
9f0fea7af06a55a8adbd3b16c37480c5
|
Ms.
|
OK
|
2017-01-15 21:30:12
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Grades PreK-2
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Math & Science
|
Applied Sciences, Mathematics
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STEAM Stations
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\"Children make you want to start life over.\" -Muhammad Ali\r\n\r\nMy students are twenty amazing six- and seven-year-old children that I am absolutely blessed by each and every day. We are in a extremely low socioeconomic environment, so not all of my students have the things and luxuries that others have. \r\n\r\nThey do not all have computers at home, nor do they all have the hands-on learning materials they need to help them excel. I firmly believe that it is vital to create and foster a strong and loving classroom environment. \r\n\r\nFor that reason, I set my room up with a homey feel. My goal was to create a learning environment students felt comfortable in so that they would want to be there. In my class, the setup is student-centered, so I do not have a traditional teacher desk. I would rather utilize the limited space we have for the students. \r\n\r\nEach of my amazing first graders has his or her own unique personality. We are not just a class, we are Ms. Davis' Hoppin' Good First Grade Family, and we are winners in every way!
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Imagine a classroom full of six- and seven-year-old little scientists engaging in hands-on science! That is exactly the goal of this project. Items provided by this project will help my students become hands-on science experts! We need Lakeshore Manipulative Kits and Engineering Toy Builders. The Lakeshore kits and Engineering Builders requested will provide my students with hands-on science experiences they would otherwise not be able to have as our school does not have a science curriculum at this time.\r\nHands-on science experiments will allow students to \"become\" scientists and to learn about science through actually doing science.\r\n\r\nThrough the hands-on learning experiences that this project will provide, my students will gain a deeper understanding of the concepts at hand. All requested materials in this project will be added to our STEAM Stations.
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My students need Lakeshore Manipulative kits and Engineering Toys Building Blocks in order to increase their STEAM knowledge and understanding.
| 42 | 1 |
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