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53,960 | p193630 | a3b4cbd5f496fee9d6484c4f063b0974 | Mrs. | CA | 2017-04-12 17:16:03 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Health & Life Science | Microscopes to Engage Elementary Students in Scientific Investigation | I am a science educator in South Los Angeles, CA for over 360 enthusiastic K-5th grade students. I'm a traveling teacher, so when I push-in my science cart into my students classrooms they cheer with excitement and anticipation for their next science lesson. Students seek me out during their recess and lunch time to ask me science questions or to help me prepare a science lab. It is because of my students that I have decided to create a donors choose account. \r\n\r\nMy students are inquisitive about the world around them and continuously seek out opportunities for me to incorporate their questions as part of my science lessons. They have been continuously asking me to use scientific tools, one in particular is the microscope. My students persistence and eagerness to learn science motivates me further to create opportunities that will continue to inspire them and potentially lead them to a science career. \r\n\r\n\r\n | My students every year ask me \"Are we going to learn how to use microscopes?\" and every year I cannot locate and/or borrow enough working microscopes to give my students the opportunity to use them. A few of my students have told me they want to be scientists when they grow-up and want to start learning how to use scientific tools such as microscopes.\r\n\r\nDonations to this project will provide elementary students access to a hands on opportunity for scientific investigation that will engage and excite them about observing their world. These 10 microscopes would be shared by over 360 kindergarten through 5th grade students. The microscopes would serve to expose my students to using scientific tools at an early age so that they become excited about and possibly one day pursue a career in science. | null | null | My students need microscopes to give them a hands-on approach to observe, think, and question about the world around them while learning how to use a scientific tool. | 0 | 1 |
89,689 | p018004 | c5006e6c7d8182ef16772cda1837ec45 | Ms. | OH | 2016-09-28 15:25:30 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, History & Civics | Environmental Science, History & Geography | Students Deserve The Best | My students are the future, and I strive every day to provide them with all resources they need to become successful individuals. As a science teacher, I build a classroom full of wonder and inspiration to be and do anything. As a teacher of 74 unique and special students, I want to provide new resources to help my students grow and succeed. My students come from homes where school becomes a safe place. They are all willing to learn every single day, and I want to offer them the education they deserve.\r\n\r\nOne student said to me, \"I wish I could bring our classroom home!\" That is what keeps me focused and determined to make my classroom the place where students look forward to visiting. In order to do this, I need your help. Thank you in advance for donating to my project(s), and also for considering to make my classroom better. There's always room for improvement!\r\n | I want my students to practice creativity, therefore the use of markers and glue sticks will help them add their creative side to their individual projects. As a social studies and science teacher, I want to show my students the world by using a world map to demonstrate the size and locations of our Earth. I also want my students to experience holding real-life minerals in their hands as we study rocks and minerals. \r\nEvery student has a special way of learning. Some of my students suffer from attention deficit disorder, therefore I would love to incorporate desk pedals into my classroom to help them stay focused. | null | null | My students need markers and glue for showing their creativity through projects and activities, a world map to learn geography, and desk pedals to stay focused. | 0 | 1 |
1,295 | p207113 | c2c5eb05f573873f5f87195ebb07a6a5 | Ms. | CA | 2016-06-08 15:26:55 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Let's Make Calender Math Possible! | My students attend a school where about 80% if the students get free or reduced lunch. The students that I am teaching need a lot of structure and consistency at school to help them be successful. My class is very diverse economically, culturally, and academically. The school is a No Excuses University, where we start preparing our students for college in kindergarten. This is my first time having my own first grade classroom and I need some basics to get me started. | The carpet chosen is needed so that the students can have their own space when sitting at the carpet. I will be using the carpet not only for calendar math but for community circles, reading, and small group as well as whole group lessons. I feel that the students will have an easier time participating and concentrating on what is being taught if they know where they are expected to sit and have their own space to do so.\r\n\r\nThese materials will be used to enhance my students learning and math skills. The calendar math supplies will be used to help my students improve math skills that are needed to be successful in the years to come. This is my first year having my own first grade classroom so I do not have much, if any, materials needed to make calendar math as successful as I would like in my classroom. Donations for this project would be greatly appreciated and well used in my classroom this coming school year. | null | null | My students need a carpet so thay they can have their own space when at the carpet. They also need a calender set for basic calender math. | 0 | 1 |
4,210 | p030167 | e431e25e557d30664cb4686571b079eb | Mrs. | CA | 2016-11-27 14:49:15 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | In Sight, In Mind! | My students are energetic and curious about the world. They come to school ready to learn and meet challenges head on. Their enthusiasm for learning is contagious, as they inspire me to challenge them and empower them with the skills they need to prepare them for the 21st century. My students need every opportunity to experience and learn with hands-on resources that stimulate their thinking. They live in a low-income neighborhood and to most English is their second language. 100% of them qualify for free lunch. | I will use these materials to create anchor charts that will become visual aids and reminders of lessons taught to my students. \r\nOur classroom is a safe place for learning and collaborating. My students learn and remember concepts best when they work together and write notes down in poster pads. The poster markers and paper will help my students write notes from their research and display their learning on our classroom walls. \r\nMy students will use the dry erase markers to work on math concepts and facts. These are supplies used on a daily basis with their dry erase boards. These supplies are an essential part of our classroom. | null | null | My students need markers and poster pads to keep concepts taught in sight and in mind. | 19 | 1 |
34,809 | p135005 | cb0b1775e19dd224e22efea2c74060e9 | Ms. | NY | 2016-11-16 21:28:46 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | My students are always excited and eager to learn considering the all the challenges they face each day at home and in school. My students are mostly native Spanish speakers and are always so excited about learning. The vast majority of the students I teach are on a free or reduced lunch program. The school in which I teach is located in Brentwood, New York and we have limited funds for instructional materials due to budget cuts. I can’t stress enough how energetic and excited my students are to learn and the need for materials that will challenge their enthusiasm at the varied reading levels they enter first grade on. | This project will have a considerable impact on my groups reading achievement during this school year and years to follow. This is especially true since these books will cover a wide reading range that is extremely suitable for this particular group. These books will enable me to further individualize my teaching strategies for maximum individual student success and growth. When materials are available on a student’s reading level, success is inevitable and this success builds the confidence to read more. As you and I know, reading more means greater knowledge and awareness of the world around us. Each week my students will go to the growing classroom library and book-shop for 10 books to keep in a book baggy to read independently. My students will be able to read these books during the day alone, with a friend, and at home. | null | null | My students need books that are on a kindergarten and first grade reading level because of the range of reading abilities that enter my classroom each year. | 11 | 1 |
134,308 | p161133 | 1d6412311c6d5eebefa5c241d74b2a01 | Mrs. | UT | 2016-06-03 14:39:31 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Books for Our Nook | My students come from lower class families, have overcome many challenges, and are always ready to learn! \r\n\r\nMy class is filled with a diverse group of students always ready to learn. They come from lower class families, and many receive free or reduced price breakfast and lunch offered at our school. The third graders I have the privilege to teach are always eager to learn and grow. Many of my students don't have the resources I am hoping to provide with your help! | The bean bags and books I am requesting will be used in my classroom to create a nook where my students can read books. Each day I do reading groups and have my students read independently. To encourage this reading I hope to supply my third graders with quality children's books in my classroom library. Providing them not only with books but with a fun, encouraging place to read them is my goal with the bean bags. There is nothing more fun than cuddling up to a good book while your nice and comfortable. \r\n\r\nReading is a life long skill that I hope to foster in my classroom at a young age. I am also requesting a small group set of books to read with my students. As I read with them in a small group, getting them hooked on a good story, I hope to provide them the next few books in the series to encourage them to read more. \r\n | null | null | My students need bean bags and books to make a nook! | 1 | 1 |
19,944 | p104081 | c705025f1895a09fe802372b81b53c1d | Mrs. | NY | 2016-08-27 15:04:22 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literature & Writing | Tables that fit our needs and our little bodies! | My students are fun and creative learners who deserve the best school experience. I am a kindergarten teacher in a title 1 school. My students are faced with many challenges both in and out of the classroom. I dedicate all of my energy to give my kindergarten students the best experience possible.\r\nI have been purchasing items for my classroom with my own money. This year I purchased a smart TV due to the fact we do not have a smart board. I also purchased a projector to use my iPad with.\r\nMy students enter kindergarten knowing some letters and sounds. By the end of the year, every student is reading on level or above grade level. The majority leave reading at the end of a first grade level.\r\nI am dedicated to creating a loving, fun, and creative environment. | I am a teacher in a title 1 school. My kids face many obstacles in and out of school. I want the best for them. My kindergarteners currently sit at upper grade desks. Kindergarten kids should sit at tables in groups. If I could afford to buy them all on my own I would. These tables will help them work cooperatively and be more comfortable while sitting. Children 5-6 years old learn from each other and these tables will allow them to work together rather than the desks they sit in. The desks they sit inner uncomfortable and they could barely reach. I want to provide my students with the best kindergarten experience. | null | null | My students need tables they can reach. The desks they have now are way too big for them. These tables allow students to interact in a cooperative manner. | 3 | 1 |
129,356 | p089124 | 5ef3d171384799fe6cf27a9a906c452f | Mr. | FL | 2017-01-17 19:24:02 | Grades 6-8 | Health & Sports | Team Sports | Soccer Equipment | After school activities are usually pricey and restricted to students that meet certain academic criteria. This year, I am going to be the coach of the girls' soccer team where the students have to meet the school's criteria for the team. I'm also forming a soccer club where the only criteria is the desire to play sports and stay out of trouble.\r\n\r\nI work at a Title I school where about 80 percent of the students receive free or reduced price lunch.\r\nMy students are in need of extracurricular activities to help them grow up as productive members of society. I am a social studies teacher, and I am going to take over the girls soccer team that takes place after school. I am going to include girls that are not going to make part of the team but are free to participate with us. | A soccer team is a quite expensive team to run. Members need specialized equipment such as cleats and shin guards, and the club needs to be able to provide a facility that will encourage participation. Keeping in mind that this club will take place right after school, I need to provide basics such as balls, cool water, and training equipment.\r\n\r\nKids are eager to participate in sports and activities that represent their school.\r\nWe just need to look for ways to provide them with the required assistance and time to encourage them to give more of themselves. I plan to have at least 22 members in a club but, who knows, more kids might show up for try outs. They will all be accepted as long as they are willing to participate. We will be able to form a mini tournament and also compete against other schools from the area. | null | null | My students need soccer equipment, a mesh bag, and a utility cart. | 34 | 1 |
8,951 | p145806 | 2e2392405653b8f1cc07a6e93133fe2d | Mrs. | CO | 2016-12-29 17:27:24 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, Music & The Arts | Health & Life Science, Visual Arts | Bringing Insects to Life in 3D | Third grade is a turning point in a student’s life. My class is a class that is excited to strive for their independence, grow their minds, and explore the world around us. They are constantly asking questions that challenge not only their peers, but instructors as well. They are energetic and on the move. I believe that each one of my students has the potential for greatness, and we are just starting to see that greatness unfold.\r\n\r\nMy class is working hard on their writing, reading, and computer skills this year. We are branching out from just paper and pencil and working towards being more tech savvy in all areas of our curriculum! We are using technology to learn more about lessons in Science and Social Studies/History in our class. We would love to branch out and utilize more technology to extend our Math knowledge. We are working on skills that will help us be leaders in the 21st century. \r\n | \r\nI am excited to bring this new and creative art mixed with technology to our classroom. Art is always something that is lacking in our schools. Student creativity is sometimes squelched by the demands of our school system. What a better way to express creativity than to integrate art with science and technology. Our students are learning about the life cycles of insects in class following Colorado Science Standard 2—Life Science. They are required to complete a family project that shows the life cycle of an insect. Using 3Doodler, students and their families will use the research they have acquired in class to make innovative models of insects and their lives. From egg to insect, students with help from their families will make 3-D models of all aspects of the life of the insect. They can even expand their model and make the environment in which the insect lives. By using the 3Doodler, students and families can bring these insects and their environments to “life” in our classroom. I am excited to see how they express their creativity and their knowledge of insects in original 3-D creations and work with their parents to create AWESOME things with the 3Doodler. \r\n\r\nWhat a new and creative way for students to experience the world around them and relate it to others. (I wish these had been something I could have used in school—what an amazing time to be a student!)\r\n\r\nThis project is for a 3Doodler pack, including 12 pens. In order to keep the students in materials, there are also refills of filament. | null | null | My students need 3Doodler pens to complete their Science projects and express their creativity. | 1 | 1 |
152,734 | p092638 | 3c7ebc858d478edc901a4a2d94a657f1 | Mrs. | NM | 2017-03-14 23:27:34 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Book Read Alouds: Catapulting Our Students to Success! | Our school lies within a district with very high poverty levels.\r\nSome of our students do not have resources at home like books, or even food. They come to school hungry and behind in learning. The challenges of poverty, and the often-violent neighborhoods our students live in, impede their progress in school.\r\n\r\nFrom kindergarten to third grade students are learning to read, but by the end of third grade they are reading to learn. And, students need to be able to read well in order to learn. The majority of our 5th graders read far below their grade level, and their learning gap gradually widens when they are not exposed to language-rich books. \r\n\r\nWe have read aloud for 30 minutes each day with me reading to the students and modeling how \"good\" readers read, and they then take turns reading aloud to the class. This is our time to be together, experience the world and walk a mile in someone else's shoes. I often stop and explain rhetorical and literary devices the students don't get on their own, and they interject questions, wading into complicated subjects happening to the characters within the book. | Students will be using these high interest, language-rich books during our daily read alouds. During our book time I'm modeling the pure pleasure of reading and broadening the students' horizons by reading aloud a good book above the students' reading level...showing students that the good stuff — the really great books — are coming down the road, if they stick with it.\r\n\r\nShared words have power, an energy that you can’t get from TV, radio, or online. Reading time removes one from the craziness of life and provides a positive habit that the students can rely on each day. Reading a great book should be one of the fondest memories of school. | null | null | My students need high interest, language-rich books for our read alouds. | 0 | 1 |
88,466 | p116795 | 3cf69daaefc1a6fc20200ae45aabc635 | Teacher | UT | 2016-08-17 13:04:31 | Grades 6-8 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Team Sports | Tools to Build Lifetime Skills | Our middle school is located in the southern part of the Salt lake City Valley, Utah. Eastmont Middle School not only has one of the most diverse populations of students in our district, but also ranks in the tops 3 district wide in nearly every state wide standardized test. Our students here are high achievers and hard workers. \r\nDespite our successes, Utah is in the bottom of the country in public school funding which greatly impacts the activities we can offer our students. | Since elective classes fall at the bottom of school funding we stretch every dollar we can to provide enough supplies for our students. With our increase in class sizes and class periods with 3 teachers (= about 105 students) in fitness class at any given time we need to acquire enough equipment for us to effectively teach team sports. Having enough equipment becomes an important part of skill development in team sports because it will allow our students to practice individual skills needed for success in medium to small groups where they can build confidence needed for success during team play. Since we are such a diverse school, our goal at Eastmont Middle School is to introduce as many fitness activities to our students as possible so students can find their own niche to help motivate life-long fitness and overall health. | null | null | My students need enough equipment/balls for students to practice skills in small groups. | 0 | 1 |
47,667 | p113788 | 11a67727e6f9133f087e3f9b29362411 | Mrs. | MI | 2016-08-05 12:06:14 | Grades 9-12 | History & Civics, Literacy & Language | Civics & Government, Literacy | Lockdown drills are not an annoyance | The students in these classes are a diverse group from a multitude of backgrounds. Some are from families where they will be the first to attend college while others are from families where paying the monthly bills is a challenge. \r\nAll students deserve an opportunity to create skills that they can take with them into careers or to college. They are eager for life skills than can help them as they finish high school and move forward in their lives. | The school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 forever changed the face of education. We would love a classroom set of the book Columbine by Dave Cullen, one of the first reports on the scene who researched the event for years, to use as a shared nonfiction text for our English classes.\r\nMy students have never known a time when there weren't lockdown drills at school. Exposure to this book will not only provide them with nonfiction text analysis skills, but it will also enlighten them as the purpose and reason behind many of the safety and drill measures in our school. This gripping researched account of one of the worst tragedies in education can ignite a passion for a new genre of text in students. | null | null | My students need a classroom set of the text Columbine for shared reading. | 22 | 1 |
30,667 | p258392 | 99ec269fccaaa6332a4dcc2b36189c42 | Ms. | FL | 2017-02-17 10:39:50 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Wobble Chairs - Keep on Moving! | I am a Kindergarten teacher that works with a very diverse population of students in a Title I school. The majority of my class is on free or reduced lunch. It is a small school with about 550 students. The kindergarten students attend full day kindergarten. My students come from diverse backgrounds from many different countries. My class receives ELL services because English is not their first language. Some of my students also receive ESE services for certain learning disabilities. | Some students need to wiggle and wobble while they work. Wobble Chairs are designed to allow movement when children are required to sit. \"The base of the Kids Kore Wobble Chair is designed to allow movement in 360 degrees, but it's not too wobbly so it doesn't tip over. The Kids Kore Wobble Chair also promotes proper posture for the back and head.\"\r\nKindergarten curriculum is quite rigorous with a lot of time spent sitting and working at a desk. With only 10 minutes of recess a day, these chairs will allow students to get their wiggles out while working. | null | null | My students need Wobble Chairs which allow for more movement when children are required to sit. | 2 | 1 |
161,791 | p078471 | 21e810bc4aee96a608b8a66a4c1a5834 | Mrs. | TX | 2016-06-29 17:24:50 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning, Literacy & Language | Early Development, Literature & Writing | Closing the Gap with Apps | My students are good kids growing up in a low socioeconomic area at a school with limited resources to help meet their learning needs. Most of my students have learning and/or emotional disabilities both treated and untreated that make it very hard for them to see that they can be successful in the classroom. \r\nIts very hard as a teacher to see them struggle with these disabilities, self-doubt, and often a lack of focus due to their overwhelming circumstances. The mentality they bring to the classroom is only furthered emphasized at home with by a lack of parental support. \r\n | Most of my students do not have access to internet at home and therefore are unable to use the supplemental resource available online. By giving them the ability to work on it during class with the iPad this gives them the chance to practice what they learn in during our intervention time.\r\nMany of my students have literacy gaps that are significant and hard to overcome without the right tools using technology like iPad to help to fill those gaps has been a successful way to I have learned to help my students. These iPad minis with cases and headphones will help me do that for my students. These iPads will be used for literacy intervention apps and websites and to preform research projects. | null | null | My students need iPad minis, protective cases, and headphones. This technology will be used for interventions to help feel gaps for my students who are behind, as well as, other learning projects. | 0 | 1 |
133,590 | p027643 | df40c0be9e44bfa1bc6f005e9c46bcaa | Mrs. | FL | 2016-11-02 20:00:45 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Music & The Arts | Literacy, Visual Arts | Reading, Using Inference Skills and Painting Our Ocean Friends | I teach art to a wonderful group of students in kindergarten-fifth grade.\r\nWhen they see me in the hallway, they stop me and want to know what the next art project is. We are a Title I school, which means most of my students receive free breakfast and lunch. We are also a culturally diverse school. We have developed a recipe for success. We strive to help meet the needs of every student. We provide additional materials and health services. We provide backpacks and uniforms to students in need. We have academic clubs, after school tutoring, and daily academic pull-out programs. These additional programs have helped our students and they have done well on standardized tests. We have a well-rounded specials program where music and art have been brought back and supported after being cut. Having art, music, PE, and computers, helps create the whole child and helps build academics and self-esteem. We are very proud of our students and their achievements. | I requested a book called Breath. It is a beautiful story that the students will read and follow the journey of a whale as he swims in the ocean and makes friends. It's a calming story for children to hear and explore in art. It's also interesting because it does not mention that the baby whale is a beluga. Students will have to use clues and infer that it's a beluga whale after a class discussion. This unit incorporates literature, art, writing, and science.\r\n\r\n Students will also examine the whale, name body parts, identify and discuss different plants and fish that they can draw and paint from this story. They will use the brushes and soft pastels requested to create their own beluga whale from the story. I will also challenge students to paint fish, sea shells, plants, a treasure chest and even a mermaid to show creativity in their paintings. Students will also have to write about their underwater painting. I am looking forward to sharing beautiful painted pictures inspired by a beautiful story called Breath.\r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need the book Breath, chalk pastels, and paint brushes to learn about ocean life and paint a beautiful illustration. | 108 | 1 |
94,495 | p117637 | 1dbc936c4566d62a904425658ea17121 | Mrs. | TX | 2016-08-20 08:38:43 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | ESL, Literacy | Library LACKING Literacy | Most of the students I serve come from a low income household where funds are not readily available. My school is one of the older schools in the district and falls under the radar when it comes to updates and technology integration. Some of these students have needs that make them extremely at risk for not graduating high school. They are highly motivated, but need the resources in the classroom to keep them engaged and WANTING to learn. Many of their needs range but overall these students take pride in their education and what to succeed. | In a school where many students struggle with meeting daily needs, the last thing on families' minds is buying books from the store. My passion as an educator is to engage and provide the tools for each of my students to succeed not only in school, but life as well. The only way to do that is to educate my students to the best of their abilities. The resources I am requesting will directly affect these students. I will be able to provide a multitude of books, ranging in genres, to my students, that they otherwise would not have access to. A student that is excited to come into a rich learning environment is a student that will succeed and ultimately benefit society in the future. | null | null | My students need literacy tools to build reading fluency and comprehension. | 0 | 1 |
145,905 | p235576 | b72217ee82c176ddbf363dd778694cf4 | Mr. | SC | 2016-12-21 09:31:05 | Grades 3-5 | Applied Learning, Music & The Arts | Other, Visual Arts | Fun with 3D Doodle Set | We have a building full of students who are actively seeking new ways to learn. Our community is small and rural, and our school is considered a Title I School. All students receive free or reduced price lunch. Each year, the students who enter my class are like a new puzzle to put together. I am always excited to learn new ways to engage these students and encourage learning. \r\n\r\nI am always looking for ways to reach out and assist students in anyway I can. This year I made it a goal to add action-based learning and flexible seating to the classroom. With this goal, I have strived to add new furniture and equipment to the learning environment. \r\n\r\nIf it takes a wobble chair, bouncy bands, yoga balls, round tables, and other items to change the ways students learn, than this is what I am willing to do. I want to change the entire environment to encourage collaboration and engagement. | Students will have the opportunity to create and engage with this 3Doodler Starter Kit. The Kit comes with everything needed for students to start using imaginations and creating new ideas. What a great way for students to express creativity, collaborate with other students, and be engaged with the lesson!\r\n\r\nThis 3Doodler Starter Kit will give students great opportunities to add to the learning environment. This kit will allow students to continue to explore with STEM activities. I love allowing the students to form groups and use items/technology they have never used before and just give them time to create! It is great to see the students' personality come out! The smiles on the faces will tell it all! | null | null | My students need a 3DOODLER Starter Kit to help them Explore | 20 | 1 |
125,355 | p252127 | 708467f23d7718a4b244c6a2274d31c8 | Ms. | MN | 2016-09-20 15:33:05 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literacy, Special Needs | Reading Rugs | I have a class of 20 students in 2nd grade. They come from all types of families. One thing they really enjoy at school is reading time. They are an easy-going class and have had a great start to the school year.\r\n\r\nThey are a great group of students who love to learn. Most of my class made a goal to read chapter books by the end of the year. Only a few are reading chapter books at the moment and my goal is to get everybody reading them by the end of the year. | The students in my class love to read. They love to find different nooks and crannies in the classroom to read. One of their favorite parts of the day is read to self time. They get to choose a spot in the room to read. Many of them like to read on the floor and stretch out. We don't have carpet everywhere so there is limited space on the floor. The floor also gets uncomfortable. Having a \"reading rug\" helps them stay in one spot and stay focused. It makes reading time more fun for them. My goal is to get them to love reading! | null | null | My students need yoga mats to read on in class to stay focused. | 0 | 1 |
75,146 | p004111 | aeedd95c20a946d2dc276fe703d5563e | Mr. | AL | 2016-09-18 10:58:10 | Grades 9-12 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Apple Pi | My students are very deserving and thankful for every opportunity given to them. I teach Math and Physical Education at a Kindergarten through 12th grade school in rural Alabama that serves 861 students. 66% of our students are minority students. 100% of our students receive free school breakfast and lunch and some students receive food over the weekend through a volunteer based Blessings in a Backpack program. Despite many hardships and obstacles, my students are hard-working and determined to succeed. | There are so many more interesting ways to learn math skills than by completing worksheet after worksheet! Having an iPad in my classroom would allow me to use various apps to enhance my math lessons and make them more real-world applicable. Skitch, Doodle Buddy, Quick Graphs, and Algebra Touch are apps with the goal of helping students to gain a better understanding of mathematics standards. These apps allow the problems to be presented in a concrete, visual way rather than monotonously solving equations from the textbook. If students can see the problem broken down step by step, it becomes more easily understood. I want my students to be excited about math and realize how frequently we must use math skills in our daily lives. Thank you for considering an iPad for our classroom. My goal is to build a classroom set of tablets! | null | null | My students need an iPad for using technology in mathematics and a protective case. | 34 | 1 |
87,053 | p068573 | 19f24640d9da49f6f8b4c9938c049591 | Ms. | MO | 2017-02-28 22:17:02 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts, Applied Learning | Music, Parent Involvement | Making Music: A Family Affair | Sing, Say, Dance, and Play! Every day an exciting adventure awaits my students when they enter my music classroom, a.k.a. Ms. K.'s House of Music. We sing, say, dance, and play to experience music at its fullest!\r\n\r\nI teach music to K-6th grade students in a low-income public school in Ferguson, Missouri. Most are at poverty level, and many also experience violence in their neighborhoods on a daily basis. Sometimes, music is the only solace to their day. \r\n\r\nIn spite of their tumultuous lives outside of school, my students are eager to express themselves through music. Every day they enter the music room with excitement and an eagerness to learn. | \r\nWe are having a musical family event in April! The evening event, \"Making Music with Your Child,\" will allow families to visit the music room and learn all about what their child has been doing in music this year.\r\n\r\nOur activity is going to be composing a melody together.\r\nThe portable pianos and headsets requested will be used by the families to work together to create a melody. My students will act as teachers in this event, teaching their parents what they have learned about the piano and composing music. We need two more pianos to have enough for our families. I am asking for enough headphones so that we can have two headphones for each of our pianos, including the two requested in this project.\r\n\r\nDonating to this project will allow my music students to share with their families all that they have learned about music composition.\r\n\r\nOur families will get the chance to see how important music education is to their child. Thank you for considering our project. | null | null | My students need portable pianos and extra headphones to compose melodies with their parents. | 196 | 1 |
49,866 | p136972 | f70688a2ec05392ae69ab91f0b8a4640 | Ms. | OH | 2017-01-09 19:29:27 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning | College & Career Prep, Early Development | Make My Students Tech Savvy! | My kindergarten students come into class each day with a smile on their face, ready for fun and learning! Students enter my class at all different academic levels and with many different learning styles. \r\n\r\nMy students come from a lower income, rural community and enter school with a variety of learning needs. Many of them have not had exposure to a lot of technology and when they enter kindergarten they are expected to be able to use this technology to take benchmark assessments. My goal is to discover the best way to meet the needs and learning styles of each individual student to enable them to be successful in a 21st century classroom. | Being able to have 5 Chromebooks in my classroom on a daily basis would greatly enhance the learning opportunities for my students! Right now, my students only have access to older generation iPads. Often there are issues with the iPads because they are so old. I would love to be able to provide my students current, working technology to help them become 21st century learners. \r\n\r\nMy students deserve this technology to improve their learning and to better prepare them to be successful learners. All of our state testing is now done on Chromebooks. By exposing my kindergarten students to this technology as soon as they start school, I can better prepare them to meet the future demands that will be placed on them. | null | null | My students need 5 Chromebooks in order to become 21st century learners! | 2 | 1 |
6,931 | p163296 | 276cb11bee58961c853c47d86bf02608 | Mrs. | PA | 2016-12-06 21:45:21 | Grades 6-8 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Dear Santa: Philadelphia 8th Graders Want Books For Christmas! | I teach a wonderful group of 8th grade students in a very high needs school in the Fairhill neighborhood/ Kensington section of Philadelphia. They experience challenges daily because they live in what is considered \"the poorest community in America's poorest big city. And life expectancy there isn't as high as it is in Syria and Iraq\", as noted by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Although the neighborhood doesn't yield the safest, crime free experience, it certainly does the yield the BEST kids and I feel so lucky and blessed to be able to teach THEM. Here's why...\r\n\r\nMy students have an excellent sense of humor, exude loads of positive energy, and are very vocal when it comes to their opinions. They are the kind of students that are willing to try anything you throw at them and provide immediate feedback. They are honest, they are real, and they certainly speak up when a lesson is great or when a lesson is awful. They tell you how much they love a certain book or how much they hate a certain series. Without a doubt, this is what makes them special, great, and challenging, all at the same time.\r\n | Many of my 8th grade students were reluctant readers... until recently! Here's why...my school is piloting an independent reading period in the morning. Yes, you read that correctly, middle school students in the city of Philadelphia sit quietly with a book for a half hour every morning and immerse themselves in reading. During this independent reading, my students are reading high interest reading material to improve their independent reading levels, while simultaneously fostering a fondness for reading.\r\n\r\nBecause many of my 8th graders had reading experiences that consisted of reading material that was forced upon them and/or was too difficult to read independently, many of them were very apprehensive about this \"new\" reading period. For weeks, I preached that the only way to become a better reading is simply by reading and kept encouraging students to give this reading time a chance. Thankfully, they gave it a chance and many of them are hooked.\r\n\r\n\"I found a book that doesn't suck\", \"Do you know if this person writes other books?\", \"Can you help me find other books like this one?\"-- these are the kinds of questions I have been getting consistently every morning. My students are finding new books, genres, and series-- only problem is: their local library branch is closed for renovation until October 2017. The nearest Barnes and Noble is located on a Temple's campus and even that doesn't stock the best middle school material. \r\n \r\nMy 8th grade students have made a wish list of the series, authors, and books that they have started reading and would like to continue reading. By buying a book for one of my amazing students, you are helping a middle school student improve their reading level and providing them access to interesting reading material!\r\n | null | null | My students need high interest books to help them continue to grow their newfound interest in independent reading! | 0 | 1 |
27,818 | p135277 | 3224800991a77412e29cb057a552526a | Ms. | TX | 2016-08-12 13:53:27 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Magical Math Literature | As a teacher at a Title 1 school, many of my students receive free or reduced price lunch and have extremely limited resources. Some face challenges daily that many adults never have to experience. My students are bright, funny, and compassionate. They love to learn, and they love to help others. I cannot control their home lives, but I can control their learning environment in my classroom. From the minute they walk in my door, I strive to make them feel at home -- safe, comfortable, respected, loved, and ready to learn! | I love to tie what my students are learning about in all subject areas to quality children's literature. These books represent the numerous math standards we teach in my 2nd grade classroom and will provide a great \"hook\" to get students engaged in our daily lessons.\r\n\r\nThe biggest advantage to tying literature to math is that students can make connections to their own lives and experiences and see that what they learn about in class is often related to other subject areas. I also love modeling good oral reading skills and encouraging a love of all genres of literature in my classroom. | null | null | My students need quality children's literature that allows them to make connections to math skills that we are learning about in class! | 4 | 1 |
132,703 | p018633 | d2691a7939497e700b15702333616cc6 | Mrs. | NY | 2016-12-06 15:39:36 | Grades 6-8 | Special Needs | Special Needs | More is More! Equal Access For All | The 6th grade Integrated Co-Teaching class is comprised of 34 hardworking students that are dedicated to their own academic success and to the success of the group as a whole. They come from a diverse range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as academic functioning levels. The ICT class unites students with varied abilities and special needs with their general education peers in a nurturing, cooperative environment. They want to learn, and they understand the value of hard work. | In a classroom of 34 students with different learning styles and abilities, we are constantly trying to differentiate so that every student has an opportunity to learn the way they learn best. This means that we often need to print many copies of materials at different reading levels, graphic organizers that are tailored to learning styles, and sometimes, notes for the special needs students that are unable to take notes for themselves. We use a lot of ink and this cartridge will help us to continue this type of instruction. \r\n\r\nBecause we have a mixture of students with different ability levels and special needs, we tend to work best in small group instruction. The mobile white board will help us to bring the instructor to the groups rather than bring the groups to the instructor when we don't have the space to do so.\r\n | null | null | My students need materials to differentiate instruction including print outs and flip charts. | 1 | 1 |
2,218 | p217847 | a7667f3e10a3affe8e802487e3c2cd9d | Mrs. | OH | 2016-06-20 20:36:29 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Hooked on Books | The best part about my students has to be their diversity. We are thrilled to welcome our differences and to learn from one another. \r\nIn my classroom I teach a cluster of students working their tails off to learn English. Near 10% of the students in my school building are English Language Learners. These students come from over 23 different countries! \r\n\r\nMy students also come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. At my school near 40% of our students are economically disadvantaged. Together we make a wonderful third grade family!\r\n | My students loving having the chance to choose their own\"just right\" books for independent reading. In order to provide my students with the best experience reading self-selected books, I need a library filled with diverse texts to select from. \r\n\r\nThe small library I have collected is mostly filled with gently used or donated texts. Many of these books are worn or lack student appeal. For these reasons, I am yearning to add several new chapter books to my library. \r\n\r\nAs a reading teacher it is my dream to create a large library with all genres of books to peak each child's unique interests. According to Frank Serafini, \"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.\" Without having a diverse library, I will not be able to reach all my students. Help me build a library that excites ALL of my third graders. | null | null | My students need popular 3rd grade book series for independent reading, such as Pee Wee Scouts and Arthur chapter books. | 12 | 1 |
665 | p019760 | f5afc3d27fabcb5c90aa9feb326f1c74 | Mrs. | WA | 2016-09-26 20:30:25 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Nutrition Education | Moving Is Our Target | My class is an enthusiastic group of third graders who come from a variety of backgrounds. I have English language learners, special education students, advanced learners, and struggling learners. \r\n\r\nMy students are excited learners who are constantly curious about everything. As a class, we discussed ways to help stay focused during a lesson. Many students said that they want more movement because it would help them learn. As a group, we discussed apps and websites for an iPad and how it would allow them to get their wiggles out!\r\n\r\nOur school has the highest poverty but students are always ready to learn and meet their academic goals. My students work hard every day! | My third graders love to move and stay active during the day. We have started doing flexible seating this year and my students love to move and wiggle throughout the day. They decided they wanted another tool to help them be more active in our school day. \r\nThey are asking for an iPad to use for brain breaks during independent time.\r\nA couple of my students showed me how you can do yoga on the iPad. They want to do this as one of their centers and/or when they need a brain break. Second, they are interested in making informational videos about healthy foods and exercise on special apps that we can play for other students. They will research nutritious foods and create fun videos to share with peers! These videos can also be played for other students in our school. Lastly, my students would love an iPad so that they can use apps such as Go Noodle and play music during brain breaks to enhance their performance. My students said that they want to be healthier and the iPad will help them increase movement during the day. They can use apps, such as Go Noodle, and project the exercises onto the board to participate in moving. We also discussed having a movement station during reading. They want to have a station where they can use the iPad to take a movement/exercise break. My third graders believe this would help them increase performance in other stations if they can take this exercise break during stations. \r\n\r\nMy students believe that this iPad will get them moving even more during the day. It will increase fitness and allow them to research good tips to help them stay healthy!\r\n | null | null | My students need an iPad to help them move during the day. With this iPad, they will be able to access apps such as Go Noodle so that they can get exercise during the day! | 8 | 1 |
89,563 | p005234 | 8978950f80160d3693cdec4ebd77d247 | Ms. | NJ | 2017-03-14 15:35:28 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | To Hear The Music Pound, Let's Beef Up Our Sound! | My music students come from a largely bilingual and low-income community. They strive to find the joy in everyday moments, as they wade through the high calls in their lives. They are a lively bunch of theatrical music lovers, whose faces light up when music brings them together.\r\n\"I have never felt so alive!\" exclaimed one of my chorus students in amazement last year, as she performed for a large audience for the first time. It is a joy to see them so ready to start creating their next performance again. I wait with baited breath to see their creativity emerge! | My chorus & talent show students love to take the stage, however, when we use our current sound system no one can hear them! It is an incredible feeling for a student to showcase his or her talent and hard work before an audience, and in return watch the crowd cheer. It boosts their confidence in themselves, both in seeing their final product made from diligent preparation and in stepping out bravely before their peers to perform it. The sound system will also be shared for other school organizations' sound needs, such as Heart Club's community health fair and Board Member For A Day's student speeches. This mixer board has many channels for plugging in all the microphones, speakers, accompaniment tracks, monitors, and instruments they could imagine. \r\nThe mixer board will help students expand the quality of their performances and also expand their imaginations for what is possible to perform next. The community members rejoice in each individual's talent and hard work, but only when they can hear how amazing the performances are. Every success builds on the next one, which is why this mixer board will continue to build confidence and character for years to come. | null | null | My students need a mixer board to plug in mics, speakers, and electric-powered instruments into the sound system for their choral concerts and school-wide talent shows. | 0 | 1 |
38,828 | p174477 | a3bbb67c45b1a21db1f91faaa9ab2a75 | Ms. | CT | 2017-04-12 14:56:27 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports, Special Needs | Health & Wellness, Special Needs | Focused on Learning | Our school is 100% free breakfast and lunch with many students receiving food to take home on the weekends. They live in single parent homes, take care of younger siblings, and miss school because parents have to work. \r\n\r\nThe students at our school come from a mainly low-income/high need background and face many challenges when it comes to learning in the classroom. Their outside lives, of course, come with them inside sometimes making it hard to focus on sitting still and working. Despite this, they want to be the President of the U.S., NBA basketball players and teachers among other things. They can achieve their dreams if we give them the tools to do so.\r\n\r\nThe 2nd graders at our school are diverse in their attitudes, loud, funny, courageous, and truly enjoy learning. | Many of my students often have trouble staying focused due to to ADD, ADHD and other attention deficit issues as well as personal problems that distract them from learning. \r\n\r\nHaving bouncy bands will allow students to get some of their nervous energy out throughout the day so they can better focus on lessons and class work. \r\n\r\nMany students are far behind academically due to decreased attention and behavior issues. When students are able to use their bands, they will hopefully showed improved academic growth from better attention. They will also have a way to channel their energy as opposed to physically and emotionally hurting others. | null | null | My students need bouncy bands for their chairs and desks to help them stay focused. | 7 | 1 |
181,297 | p035641 | 28d60214354b9b13dbdbffffbfa82848 | Mr. | CT | 2017-04-27 12:11:27 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Music | Our Students Rock!!! | My students attend Ansonia Middle school, an ethnically diverse urban school district working hard to provide the best possible education. Many of our students come from very difficult backgrounds, with more than 60% of them receiving free or reduced lunch. Many of then come from broken homes. They do not have access to the most basic opportunities that students who live just a few miles down the road experience on a regular basis. \r\n\r\nAccess to to the arts has been significantly cut due to budget constraints forcing the music and art staff to be creative in finding ways to give the students the experiences they deserve. This project will help provide an instrumental music experience to students who would not otherwise have one.\r\n | Our school is in the process of implementing Little Kids Rock's modern rock band program. Little kids rock provides a great start to being able to establish this program, but in order to be successful in a classroom setting we need a larger number of instruments. \r\n\r\nBy providing guitars for my students, I will be able to provide an instrumental music program designed to ensure success and enrich student learning in a way that we have been missing for quite some time. The modern rock band curriculum teaches instrumental concepts through the use of rock band instruments through popular music the students already listen to and love. | null | null | My students need guitars in order to provide an instrumental music experience that has previously not existed. | 0 | 1 |
24,805 | p242967 | 4ded3e9cc69f0d4559c8f8dcb3d1599a | Mrs. | WY | 2016-11-16 10:54:07 | Grades 9-12 | Music & The Arts | Visual Arts | Perceiving Patterns in Painting | My students have a strong pride in their school. Our school motto, POWER OF THE HERD, embodies the qualities honorable, enthusiastic, responsible, and determined to succeed at school and graduate a powerful force in our community. Students try to over emphasis the good at school because outside of school, many road blocks, such as family, money, and work can get in the way of their graduation goals. \r\n\r\nEven with low graduation rates, my students use their creative thinking in amazing ways. Students get inspired by their experiences and the world around them, and try to find ways to overcome any odds and land right side up. I can only hope to be an added tool to help them succeed in life, school, and in their art! | In the words of Isaiah Berlin, \"To understand is to perceive patterns.\" My students will use patterns to recognize and understand the world through repetition and design. \r\n\r\nThis year our school district has adopted a new curriculum that uses pattern, repetition and text as way to visually talk about art. My goal for this lesson is to have every student be able to create their own pattern based of personal experience. It's a hard task to processes one's life or experience and then summarize these experience into one iconic shape or design. We will then use the Cricut to cut the patterns. The patterns will be used as the ground to the initial painting process. By the end of the painting, students will be able to familiarize how sometimes in life, we have to focus on the little things, because it's the little things put together that lead to big idea and accomplishments. | null | null | My students need a Cricut cutting tool to create their own designs and patterns to reach our new Standards Reference Grading curriculum. | 3 | 1 |
144,261 | p010809 | 6f23b18f71b5a65851fd00f0f6ebb20e | Mrs. | KY | 2016-09-03 19:35:27 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | ESL, Literacy | Magazines Make Learning Fun! | Our school is located in Southern Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky. It is an area that suffers from socioeconomic issues. All students in our school have a need for and receive free breakfast, Lunch, and an afternoon fruit/vegetable snack. Our district has had to severely limit the amount of supplies purchased by families because they simply cannot afford it. The students at Blake Elementry need extra help from people who are willing. Books, supples, manipulative, and anything that makes learning fun! | The children will benefit by reading and rereading the magazine which will help their reading fluency. The online resources will help with their fluency through listening to the text being read online. The online games also help with comprehension. The Scholastc News package also allows students to experience real world articles that are on their reading level. The students will be able to build their background knowledge of the world through this media. The students will not be exposed to this important genre without your help. The students I teach are in great need of experiences, with this magazine, at least in some way the students will be experiencing things in a beautiful glossy magazine. | null | null | My students need to experience examples of real world informational reading. Thanks for your help! ❤️ | 0 | 1 |
31,269 | p073102 | cff03030a6b5e5d59b955996bd0e52bc | Mr. | CA | 2016-08-02 18:17:03 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Team Sports | Let's Play Hockey! | I teach 34 fourth grade students at Harmony Elementary School in Los Angeles. We service a heavily Latino community and my students are the high achieving cluster. My students are very motivated to learn, inquisitive, and dedicated. They rise to both academic and physical challenges. \r\nMy students enjoy hands on activities and challenging themselves to learn all they can. I want them to have a positive school experience. I want them to have the resources they need to thrive and be healthy, positive individuals. | Hockey is an excellent sport to learn. I want to provide my students with the opportunity to learn the sport. Students will be engaged and have fun. This kid-inspired project will peak my students' interest.\r\nMy students will learn a new sport while also exercising. The hockey sticks are the required equipment. The portable nets will used for scoring. The jerseys will be used to distinguish team members. Hockey can be an extremely entertaining sport for not only those that are playing but those viewing. I plan to rotate team members into the game so that all my students have an opportunity to play. Students will learn the value of team work and also exercise while doing so. | null | null | My students need hockey set, portable goal net, and team jerseys. | 54 | 1 |
48,739 | p024694 | bcf4aa8f40a50d382859e360847c91f9 | Mrs. | CT | 2016-11-27 10:25:57 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Applied Learning | Applied Sciences, Parent Involvement | Innovation Nation - Creating a Learning Space for Student Exploration | The students of CES are excited about learning. As a school, we have been working hard to personalize learning experiences and to create environments that support students as they pursue their interests.\r\n\r\nStudents are most engaged when they are learning through their interests. This year, an Innovations Team within our school created an Innovations Lab, a place for students to explore their learning using materials that they find engaging and interesting - that spark their creative thinking. Students, parents and staff have served on this steering committee to be sure that it meets the needs of all.\r\n\r\nWe are fortunate to have staffing for this room, with many parents and community experts ready to come in to support student learning. At this point, we have a need for items that will support this hands on learning, so that we can offer relevant, interesting materials for all students to use. Thanks for considering a donation to this exciting project! | Dash the Robot will allow students to experience coding, a highly motivating aspect of technology learning for our young students. Robotics and KNex supplies will allow students to create 3D representations of their ideas, and create prototypes of their designs.\r\n\r\nUsing IPad technology, students will create iMovies and participate in interactive learning experiences using apps such as Padlet and Skype to participate in question and answer experiences with experts. \r\n\r\nFinally, many basic supplies are necessary as we are building the Innovations Lab from the ground up, and want to create an environment that provides an experience for children where they see their ideas as limitless.\r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need materials that they can use to build prototypes of their design ideas. They also need access to IPad technology to support and grow their technology understanding. | 0 | 1 |
145,503 | p065211 | f65df2a12423021e8608ab986b00af6e | Mrs. | FL | 2017-01-19 19:49:59 | Grades PreK-2 | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Tummies Rumble When Empty! | Our students are kind, naturally, chatty, and very spirited young children from central Florida. They work very hard to make good grades in their classes and many of them live very difficult living conditions.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe are a Title I school. We have about 89 percent of our students that receive free or reduced rate lunch. Many come from economically disadvantaged families with one parent homes or raised by other family members. There are a lot of students that do not have food to eat over the weekend. They leave us with a good lunch on Friday and return ravenous on Monday morning for breakfast. Our take home weekend food program has been greatly reduced in the last few years. The number of children being served was cut and the amount or kind of food items are a limited variety. Weekend food items are desperately needed for some of our families. | The food items will be divided up and sent home with children in need for a weekend care package. Teachers know which children go without eating over the weekend. We have a person on campus that deals specifically with children that are in need of clothes, food, or other necessities in their homes. Small, plastic disposable grocery bags have been used to keep the weekend food packages discrete. The food is delivered to the classrooms at a time when the students are not present, such as lunch or specials, so the bags can be put into backpacks. \r\n\r\nOur students are very appreciative of a small bag of food they can eat over the weekend. We can't provide three meals a day, but we are able to help keep their hunger a little less. An empty tummy is very stressful to our young children. | null | null | My students need easy to prepare food items to take home on weekends. | 58 | 1 |
96,305 | p030545 | 8e5d78fe1bfbcef5819c7c92f314a8f3 | Ms. | SC | 2016-10-11 13:13:58 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning | Other | Flexible Seating: Active Seating for Active Learners! | Our school is located in a rapidly growing suburb in South Carolina. Despite the high growth rate in our area, our school community has managed to stay tight-knit. So far, our class has 22 students, but with all the development in our town, that number is bound to increase before the end of the school year! \r\n\r\nAs a first grade teacher, I cannot overstate the importance of community and relationships! My number one goal in the classroom is to create a \"family,\" where the children feel safe and comfortable to be themselves, take chances, make mistakes, and, subsequently, learn! First graders are impressionable; their school experiences now can frame their mindset about education for the rest of their lives. I love helping them learn to love learning! | Think about walking into a Starbucks - do you choose a regular table, a high top table, or a seat on a couch? Just as the answer to that question varies from person to person, children's seating preferences while learning vary. Last year, I quickly learned it is not developmentally appropriate for a 6 and 7 year old to sit quietly in a chair at a desk for hours each day. While moving around during brain breaks throughout the day helped, I knew I could be doing more for my students. I started researching and discovered the benefits of flexible seating.\r\n\r\nResearchers for the Mayo Clinic found that the ability to move around more while sitting made students more attentive.\r\nBall chairs and wiggle cushions, like the ones I'm requesting for my students, channel students’ physical energy in positive ways and helps them to better focus on the task at hand. In order to implement flexible seating successfully, we will need to set class expectations for flexible seating. \r\n\r\nThe world outside the classroom is dynamic and full of choices; I can help prepare students for that world by giving them choices in the classroom. When children have the chance to try out different seating (or standing) options, they are given the opportunity to get to know themselves and their own unique learning preferences at a young age. Students are also more engaged when they feel empowered, and a classroom full of engaged students is a successful classroom! | null | null | My students need 5 stability balls and 6 stability cushions as flexible seating options in the classroom. | 1 | 1 |
69,734 | p121308 | 406518edf1c30d599de90e2055a697fc | Mrs. | GA | 2016-11-21 11:30:42 | Grades 3-5 | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Warmth, Care & Hunger | On the Right Track with Backpacks | My students come from diverse backgrounds and that provides us with wonderful learning opportunities. Some of my students have special needs; others are gifted learners. We also have military dependents and children speaking English as a second language in our class. We are very fortunate to have such a beautifully diverse classroom community.\r\n\r\nAlthough our school is faced with an increasing number of students from low-income families, my students are highly motivated to solve problems and make the world a better place. My students are the scientists, artists, engineers, and mathematicians of the future. They care about others and want to make a difference in the world. I can't wait to see the amazing things they accomplish in their lives! | As the year progresses, my students' backpacks meet a number of unfortunate fates: some are ripped, zippers break, and some get lost. Once in a while, a lunch box leaks and the resulting mess is not pleasant. Backpack drama can diminish a student's motivation. It can also lead to frustration for students and their parents. In the end, many students start their day with tears of frustration. \r\n\r\nWe can greatly reduce backpack drama by providing students with new backpacks. These shiny, new backpacks will have them excited about returning from the winter break. With your help, my students will begin the new year with renewed motivation for learning. The pride and sense of ownership that comes with a new backpack will add to my students' self-worth and help keep them on the right track. \r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need backpacks for motivation and organization in the new year. | 136 | 1 |
251 | p014358 | 6827bc1d63f1f56b06d6d537c4b58fd8 | Ms. | NJ | 2016-11-06 18:24:04 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Find Your Colored Square! | My school is located in New Brunswick, NJ. I have 26 students this year in my class. This school is a Title 1 school, so my students receive breakfast and free and reduced lunches. Almost all of my students supplies are bought by myself before the start of school. I make sure that they have everything they need to succeed. This year I am in a regular ed class, although I have some students who have IEP's. They need as much routine in their life to help them succeed in the classroom and learn to their fullest ability. | Having a rug with specific spots will help me to be able to make assigned seats. Having assigned seats for my students will benefit them to learn much better out of their desk seats but also away from any friends that might distract them.\r\n Right now, my students are just selecting any seat they want during my lessons on the floor which causes me to stop my lessons many times throughout just ONE mini lesson due to the chatter and distractions. With this carpet my students will have the ability to learn during my reading/writing lessons without being distracted by any friends around them. | null | null | My students need this carpet for me to have assigned seating so they can focus and understand so much better during my teaching lessons on the rug. | 0 | 1 |
80,855 | p114328 | db42b00c3870b70e4a803f23ca478cfc | Ms. | TX | 2016-10-29 21:29:00 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | Help 5th Grade Scientists Learn With Technology! | South Dallas is one of the toughest neighborhoods in Dallas. My 5th grade students at my small charter school are super excited about learning science, but face many challenges both inside and outside of class. Many come to us several grade levels below in both reading and writing and many have never fully experienced science lessons before. My 5th grade scientists struggle to close the gaps in their education as well as their own view of self-worth. Help me give my students the tools they need to be successful scientists both at school and in the real world!\r\n | My 5th grade scientists LOVE technology! Help us learn more about science and the world around us by helping us get a class set of android tablets. We will use these tablets to access educational websites, create projects and presentations, and connect with the world outside of our community!\r\n\r\nAll of my students are from low income families that do not have access to technology at home. Providing students with the experience gained through using tablets in science class will help create tech-savvy students who are successful outside of the classroom walls. Our new found technology skills will not only enhance our learning but will also provide us with a sense of accomplishment! | null | null | My students need Android tablets, earphones, and cases to increase science learning! | 6 | 1 |
67,488 | p136096 | bcb7fef60e7942d323562a32184de40f | Ms. | NJ | 2016-05-02 13:25:28 | Grades 6-8 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Dusting Off the Soul | \"Books wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life.\" -Haruki Murakami\r\n\r\nAs one of my favorite authors puts it, books are rejuvenating and enhance the quality of life. | My students are avid readers, and my school fosters a culture of \"smart.\" Over the course of the past few years, I have built a very robust classroom library to help them \"dust off\" their souls and sharpen their minds, but because of their voracious hunger, I am constantly seeking ways to appease their need for more literature. | Although I teach them complex, sophisticated books like \"Othello\" and \"Animal Farm,\" my primary job is to ensure that by the time my eighth-graders head to high school, they are hooked on reading. For this reason, I am seeking a myriad of new titles to add to my classroom library. It is important that each time a student visits my bookshelves, he/she can walk away with an exciting book. | I need your help in filling my library with the hottest new Young Adult titles. Students will benefit from your kindness by reading books that engage them, compelling them to \"dust off\" everyday life and make reading a habit they treat themselves to regularly. \r\n\r\nWith only a few months left of school, I want my students to \"wind up,\" to work their hardest until the last day of instruction. Fresh books will help to ground them in their academics and inspire them to see reading as pleasurable. | My students need brand new titles for the classroom library. | 19 | 1 |
110,736 | p062482 | 831cf9acd60017154cbf2558961cdea0 | Ms. | CT | 2016-09-03 13:00:13 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning, Literacy & Language | Early Development, Literacy | Taking the learning further with Scholastic's Let's Find Out | My students are a diverse group of young learners. They come from a wide range of cultures/backgrounds, and each one is excited to learn in their very own way. \r\nMy students ability levels vary, and require a differentiated instruction to best meet their individual needs. I look for a variety of resources to target not only their academic needs, but also their curiosity and love of exploration. Their likes and interests are very important to me and I strive to incorporate as many as I can throughout our school year together. | The magazine is child friendly with bright photographs, fun facts, easy to understand information, and engaging activities.\r\n\r\nScholastic's Let's Find Out is a great addition to our classroom tools. Let's Find Out can be used with my students during Morning Meeting, in small groups, in our guided reading groups, and as whole group instruction!\r\n\r\nOnce Let's Find Out weekly readers are used in the classroom they can be sent home and shared with families...making them a great tool for getting the family engaged in what students are learning at school. The creation of a home/school connection is of utmost importance!! | null | null | My students need a variety of classroom resources to engage them and increase their love of learning. Scholastic's Let's Find Out-My Weekly Reader Magazine is a fantastic tool to do just that. | 0 | 1 |
22,680 | p215664 | 59fcb792d9ab55181c3d2d0fe249a30f | Ms. | TN | 2016-08-25 19:58:04 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Scholastic News | What a great start to a new school year! I have 22 new beautiful students that are eager to learn and grow this school year. \r\n\r\nThis group of students are so excited to learn about the world around them through science and social studies. They are highly inquisitive and ready to expand their depth of knowledge in subjects like earth science, geography, and physical science. Students love digging in deeper to this topic and this project will help them to do so! | Scholastic News is a wonderful resource that brings current events to students at their own level. This is a wonderful tool that will help connect students to the real world and will allow them dig in deeper with informational text. Not only is this a wonderful resource for in the classroom, but this magazine can then be taken home and shared with the family. What an excellent opportunity for kids and their parents to connect through current events and informational text! My students are very excited to bring this wonderful resource to our classroom! We look forward to many learning opportunities. | null | null | My students need Scholastic News Magazines to help deepen their knowledge on current events! | 2 | 1 |
18,022 | p075234 | 3a616d4793c994babfc864e1ccecc98d | Teacher | VA | 2016-07-24 08:05:55 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Literacy & Language | Applied Sciences, Literature & Writing | Learning Science Through a Hands-on Approach | Our school is a Title I school consisting of low-income children with diverse backgrounds and learning styles. Every morning, the students eat breakfast together in the classroom. From that moment on, their day is full of educational activities geared toward their individual learning needs.\r\nI have a group of excited low-income students who thrive with hands-on active lessons. They love to discuss what we are learning with each other. The students in the class care for and take care of each other. In many ways, this classroom is their family.\r\n | All of the classroom materials will be used through small group instruction and exploratory learning during center time. The students will be using the STEM bundle to discover multiple facets of science such as magnets, force and motion, and gravity. They will use the Geostix to work collaboratively while creating the specified designs as well as designs of their own. The button sorting center will help the students to think critically and categorize buttons by size, shape, color, etc. The alphabet and number stampers will be used during center time to help the students learn to count and make words.\r\n\r\nThrough your generous donation, the class will learn science in a meaningful and engaging way. Thank you for helping our students build a strong foundation in the sciences that will give them a step up for later years. | null | null | My students need a Lakeshore STEM Bundle for grades K-1, a Button sorting center, Uppercase Alphabet and Number Dough Stampers, and Geostix. | 7 | 1 |
136,083 | p067251 | ca37c7c55d75627deb47b0f546ee3e46 | Mrs. | UT | 2017-04-01 11:53:46 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Osmo Ipad STEM Centers | The students you will be helping will be First Graders that come from a low income area. Many of these students do not have sufficient opportunities to work with technology programs that encourage problem solving and creativity. Much of the technology that our students work with provide students with rote practice only. Therefore, many students are at a disadvantage when attempting testing situations that require problem-solving techniques. \r\n The students in my classroom are excited and motivated to have the opportunity to work with OSMO, IPAD STEM Centers that will challenge them. They come to school an open book, waiting to be filled up with creativity and problem-solving skills that will help them to be successful in life. | Using classroom Ipads will allow me to customize my Osmo lessons. Osmo is a kit that includes letters, numbers, shapes and coding materials. Using the Ipads, the Osmo software and the Osmo manipulative materials will allow students to learn while using technology along with hands on materials. \r\n Using clasroom ipads will allow me to align weekly spelling lessons from our Journey's Reading Program with the lessons in our OSMO STEM Centers. This will enable students to practice the spelling patterns we are learning each week using the technology of an ipad. \r\n This equipment will also help me track student\"s problem-solving skills with math concepts. Classroom ipads will allow me to adjust student math programs to help improve number sense and help improve problem -solving skills.\r\n | null | null | My students need to be able to use classroom Ipads that will enable me to customize spelling and math lessons. | 1 | 1 |
116,464 | p190502 | 19ec777ef0293890a4ce029e0c447b37 | Mr. | NJ | 2017-01-16 15:38:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Keep our chrome books safe and fully charged every day! | My students at our school in Jersey City come from a variety of backgrounds. We also have many different cultures as well. Our students come from India, Singapore, Russia, Switzerland just to name a few. We get kids from the shelter as well as from penthouse apartments. They all do very well in school. They love to learn and all of them participate on a daily basis. On top of that, they are happy children who love to come to school.\r\n\r\n | My students love to learn! They get so much out of working with computers. Every lesson I teach can be further enhanced by technology. The children can't wait to get on the chrome books to play games that further their understanding of each and every lesson. \r\nWe need a charging station that locks in order to keep our chrome books safe and fully charged for everyday use in the classroom. I cannot keep them locked in a closet with no way to charge them. It is impractical and it is impairing the children's ability to use this wonderful gift that was given to us by donors like you.\r\nPlease help us get this cart that we so desperately need. Once we have this, my students can get so much more out of school. They already love to learn, but think of how much better it will be when the chrome books that they love become so much more accessible. | null | null | My students need a home for their chrome books in order to keep them safely charged for everyday use in the classroom! | 1 | 1 |
140,333 | p139925 | 4f3ffd5d870443b39d4bfd83fd8633f3 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-08-12 20:24:12 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness, Team Sports | There's Nothing to Do: End Recess Boredom and Get Fit | We live in a rural community and many of my students rarely travel outside the borders of our home county. Many have never seen the ocean or been to a large city. While we live in an area where hiking and exploring the outdoors is prominent, many of my students are spending way too much time indoors. \r\n\r\nThe biggest complaint I hear when students are outside or at recess is that there is nothing to do or there are too many students playing with the limited playground equipment. My students love to run and play with their friends; however, they are too big to play on the playground structure and very few have balls or frisbees to bring to school. They jump at the opportunity to play kickball, tennis, and even a simple game of toss. I am constantly hearing, \"...I wish we had...\" or watching my students take simple materials and inventing games. | While most of my students are excited when the recess bell ring, they often come to me asking to help them find something to do. I have heard students ask for simple equipment to play with, and when I have brought donated tennis balls and the occasional frisbee they are greeted with excitement every day. There are very few students that are able to bring basketballs or the occasional soccer ball to school; however, when equipment shows up, there are normally packs of students joining in on one game.\r\n\r\nI finally asked my students what types of equipment would make recess more fun, and unanimously they shouted, \"We want different types of BALLS!\" Together they came up with a list of equipment that could be used to play many games and could be used create games that promote team building and creativity. When we discussed the benefits of trying to get classroom equipment many mentioned that having more equipment would provide students the opportunity to play different games and there might be less arguing with smaller groups. My students started dreaming up different games or recording games they invented in anticipation of new playground equipment. | null | null | My students need jump ropes, playground balls, and disk ogo sets to help them get moving, be creative and have fun while being active. | 3 | 1 |
114,587 | p237069 | a81e108d977fd5cc9ca57cec8818edd8 | Ms. | TX | 2017-02-25 17:01:13 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Organizing and Guiding Future Readers | My class is made up of 26 students and more than five nationalities. Being an ESL class, we speak many different languages and come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. All of my students receive free/reduced price lunch and some may go through periods of homelessness throughout the duration of the year. Aside from their hardships outside of the classroom, my students love coming to school and participating in opportunities that are out of the ordinary in their home lives. Many students don't have the technology at home that they engage in at school and they are enthusiastic about incorporating this into their learning. | My students need a shalf to organize and store their guided reading materials as well as 5 mil laminating pouches to protect their activities. Our students will use these materials to learn to read in a small group setting and explore previously learned concepts in independent centers! These activities will be used during Learning Center times throughout the day as we read and write while learning together. They will be able to use games and activities laminated with these materials during our small group center time, learning letters, sounds, rhymes, syllables, words, numbers and addition.Your generous donation to our project will improve our Kindergarten classroom by building stronger readers and writers but also encouraging students to become independent learners!\r\n\r\nThere is nothing more gratifying than teaching a student how to read and write and these resources will aid in the process of doing both of those.\r\n | null | null | My students need a rolling cart to store their materials for small group guided reading and laminating pouches to protect and preserve their games and materials. | 3 | 1 |
37,354 | p058312 | 3b53ba46904fec384123157f64c2f5b9 | Ms. | SC | 2016-11-25 21:16:55 | Grades 6-8 | Applied Learning | College & Career Prep, Other | Oh Baby... Parenting F.A.C.S | My school serves the largest special education population in the district (20.5%).The total student population is 881 students feeding from seven elementary schools in the district. The students in my school are represented by African American-49.5%Caucasian-47.5%, Hispanic-2%, Asian-0.9%, Other-0.1% There are a total of 476 males and 405 females. \r\nThe total population of students I teach include: First block, second block, third block, and seventh block. These students total 120 students each semester with the first semester consisting of 92 seventh graders and 28 eighth graders. The ethnicity of the students with the population includes 51 African American students; 58 Caucasian students, and 5 Hispanic Students and 3 American Indian students, 3 Other nationalities.\r\n\r\n | The Baby Think It over Program will require students to be the sole caretaker of the Baby Think It Over infant simulator whose crying replicates that of an infant. The experience is intended to demonstrate to students the full time commitment required for parenting an infant. This project will allow students to see the growth and development from conception to birth, as well as feel the fetal movements of a baby. They will also get to discuss the consequences of engaging in harmful substances during pregnancy. The purpose of this project and my class is to get students thinking about abstinence and the responsibilities of making hasty decisions. | null | null | My students need early childhood educational props for further engagement into parenting. | 0 | 0 |
168,496 | p093406 | 30d11efe8b6972e33d9f808034a2081b | Ms. | VA | 2017-01-10 12:38:32 | Grades PreK-2 | Music & The Arts | Visual Arts | Creativity with Crayola | My school is rather unconventional compared to other schools within our county. We are the second charter school for Loudoun County and have focused our schedule and curriculum around project based learning. This lets students learn subjects in an organic and extremely hands-on way. \r\nTo encourage a hands-on learning experience we utilize STEAM in our classroom. STEAM stands for Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics. This type of learning encourages students to explore different ideas and ways of learning. We focus a good deal on exploration and encourage students to take risks. \r\nMy scholars are incredibly creative and really enjoy creating items in our classroom. We recently created diagrams and orthographic sketches of innovations for transportation and communication. It is this type of learning and creating that my scholars truly connect and respond to. | My students need basic art supplies so that we are able to continue doing creative hands on projects in our classroom. I have a highly creative group of students and would love to be able to supply them with a fresh dose of colored pencils, crayons, and markers. This Crayola set would let them be able to use new and fresh materials and have a variety of colors. \r\nI encourage hands on projects and creativity in my classroom and this set of materials would let my students be creative again and not limited by what I can currently provide them. Being a Project Based Learning and STEAM charter school we are constantly creating and learning through hands on activities. My students are always making posters and signs to teach each other what they have chosen to become \"experts\" in. I usually divide a topic amongst students and let them choose to do research in what is interesting to them. We are currently writing non-fiction books about animals of our choice. The students want these books to be colorful, however, we are quickly dwindling on supplies. The students are unable to make the projects that they desire because of the lack of materials. \r\nA donation to this classroom would mean giving creativity back to my students. It would let them continue learning in this amazing way! | null | null | My students need basic school art supplies to keep creative thoughts flowing. | 2 | 1 |
141,638 | p122513 | c4b80ccf97c5f6326dd48baf56da40c5 | Ms. | SC | 2017-02-15 11:04:37 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Graphic Novels for the Library | Our students come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. The school is 25% Hispanic, 25% Caucasian, and 50% African American. One hundred percent of the the students receive free or reduced lunch. One-fourth of our school population has military connections; we are adjacent to the Air Force Base. While we have approximately 450 students in child development (age 4) through grades five, including students receiving special education services, 110 of those students come from Spanish-speaking homes. We also have students that speak Portuguese and Swahili. | My students love to read graphic novels. However, we do not have enough graphic novels to meet the demands of all of our students. These graphic novels will allow more students to check out graphic novels. Graphic Novels are great for older students who are struggling readers. Graphic Novels typically have a lower reading level that traditional chapter books, and the pictures help to reinforce the meaning of the words. Graphic Novels can also help students that are English-Language Learners in the same way. We want to foster life-long readers, and graphic novels help struggling readers not feel embarrassed about what they are reading. | null | null | My students need graphic novels to get them excited about reading! | 2 | 1 |
147,696 | p111843 | 34d8eb87333348c034a917e0f358737b | Ms. | CO | 2017-04-19 16:46:58 | Grades 9-12 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | We Take What We Value for Granted | Students here are exciting! They have a competitive edge and use education, sports, and service to help them find more successful tools and skills for their futures. Students collaborate and do everything they can to share with the broader Denver community. \r\n\r\nThey know and understand that their experiences now and the options they have today can and will have a broader impact in the coming years. They are diverse in their desires, learning, and passions: hence, so is what they have to offer. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n | In October of 1953, Fahrenheit 451 was first published. Nowadays, this book is a very eerie crystal ball.\r\n\r\nStudents are warned about the characters that wear Seashells in their ears, while aggressively clinging to iPhone and earbuds. Students mock the characters' obsession with their \"families\" on wall-sized monitors, but rush home to watch reality TV.\r\n\r\nThese books will allow students to see how Bradbury warned, not of censorship, but how societies behaviors in the \"Selfie\" and social media obsessed era has destroyed students interest in reading literature. \r\n\r\nTherefore, students will understand the world better with this book. And, in the words of Ray Bradbury, “Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.” | null | null | My students need several copies of the canonical text, Fahrenheit 451. | 22 | 1 |
159,688 | p096252 | 6fe4c2b1e208334885170916e5a3395c | Mrs. | OH | 2016-11-25 23:10:50 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Listen and Love Learning! Headphones Needed! | \"Yes, I got it!\" These words are constantly shouted in my classroom as students work together to learn their math facts. Our current 2nd grade math goal is to add and subtract fluently with no counting on fingers. Its so much from watching them grow from apprehensive students to confident learners!\n\nMy students are a fun loving, diverse group of second graders!\nMany of them are English language learners. They speak a variety of languages including Spanish, Somali and even Arabic. I love the diversity in my classroom and feel that each and every child brings something special to our room. Given their multi-cultural backgrounds, I always look for ways to encourage language and community in our room. My students can constantly be seen working in groups, solving problems and creating games! \n\nDespite their love of learning, many of my students struggle with school for a wide variety of reasons. However, I choose to focus on what they can do and how we can work together to overcome their difficulties. Who wants to help me get them started on the right path?\n\nOur school district is located in an urban area, all of our students qualify for free lunch. | My students need headphones to use with our shared Chromebooks. This school year my class was given the opportunity to share a set of Chromebooks with our other 2nd grade classroom. We've worked extremely hard to enhance our learning through new applications and have even learned to use Google classroom. It's been an amazing experience to watch my students engage in learning with new and exciting ways they did not have access to before. \r\nYour generous donation to this project will improve engagement while enhancing learning in math, reading and critical thinking!\r\nUnfortunately, many of my student's can not afford to buy their own headphones to fully use our computers. Can you imagine how hard it is for students to focus on their own learning while listening to 5 computers at one time? This project will allow all of my students to use the computers to their full capacity. The headphones will help students to focus on their own learning! Students will be able to listen to books, practice their math facts and engage in online content. I would also like increase students critical thinking skills by writing our own e-books and creating learning videos. The headphones will help my students by affording them the opportunity to truly use our new technology without limitations and giving them equal access to the education they deserve! | null | null | My students need a classroom set of headphones to enhance their learning through technology! | 6 | 1 |
27,751 | p175530 | 71700f4c465deda61013a1f31b97d545 | Mr. | ND | 2017-04-25 16:21:27 | Grades 6-8 | History & Civics, Literacy & Language | History & Geography, Literature & Writing | Fidgeting Students Need Fidgets! | My students are very active. There has been a definite increase over the years of students needing to be able to move around while in class. We have tried many different types of fidget devices and items like stress balls or bean bags, but we need something new. \r\n\r\nSometimes students just need to have something to do with their hands. Many adults do too. Having a little something to keep their hands busy can allow students to concentrate more and pay more attention to their work. My students tap, poke, and find all kinds of things to play with. I think there may be a better way to keep them busy. | There has been a significant increase in cases of student ADHD and students Anxiety and Stress. There are a lot of ways that these issues can be expressed. One of the most common is by \"fidgeting\" or moving around. Students my find themselves tapping their pencils, bouncing their knees, or messing with their neighbor. There needs to be a better way. \r\n\r\nWhat is there for students who can't sit still? In the past we've used stress balls, stress putty, balloons filled with rice of corn starch, and many other little things to help students focus. Now there are wonderful little hand held products that can occupy a students hand and keep their minds focused. I feel that being able to get these little fidget gadgets into my students hands will help them to do better in class and behave better over the course of the day. | null | null | My students need fidget toys to give them something to keep their minds focused and their hands busy. | 5 | 1 |
140,288 | p172659 | f49b63ad782d35a9a3107b18d3dd211c | Ms. | MO | 2016-07-16 19:54:09 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | iPad Minis for Many Learners | My students come in to the classroom each morning ready to learn. I love their passion for learning. As a teacher teaching in a district with enrollment nearly at 20,000, my students are faced with many challenges in and out of the classroom. Despite these challenges, I want my students to feel motivated and engaged.\r\n\r\nI want my students to know they can accomplish whatever it is that is important to THEM. For some, it may be a loving environment and for others, to be experts at subtraction or even animals. We have a very diverse population of students. I want all of them to be able to succeed. | Having the set of iPads will allow for differentiated learning in my classroom. We will use these in a variety of ways. The options are limitless. They will be used for online journals that will keep their parents involved in the school community. They will provide the ability to research for writing projects, document science findings, collaborate wth other students, let struggling students get some extra practice that is still engaging, and challenge those high learners that need a little more motivation.\r\n\r\nOur classrooms are not yet at the level technologically to meet their needs as digital learners. This grant will help to close that gap just a little bit more and allow students to be excited about what is next to come. | null | null | My students need iPads to help differentiate instruction for the many different learning abilities in our classroom. | 0 | 1 |
40,717 | p084881 | 23fcbea2ef72082125f6ae3ce9e9868f | Mrs. | NY | 2016-09-28 10:11:28 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | MacBook Pro For My Computer Pros!! | My students are extremely motivated and eager to learn. They come from homes where they may not be given any technology let along the newest and updated technology. But yet when they come into my computer lab they are rearing to go and ready to learn. They can't wait to come in and see what new adventure or lesson they will doing for the day.\r\n\r\nOur Title 1 school is located in East New York and is made up of different cultures, backgrounds and learning styles. | Having a new MacBook Pro in my computer lab will enable me to bring the newest state of the art technology to my eager students. This laptop is going to help students develop the research and writing skills that are now part of the rigorous Common Core technology standards. \r\n\r\nThe laptop will be used in a variety of learning centers by individual students and small groups. In addition, I will be able to use the laptop for whole group instruction and help me keep track of student assessments for more differentiated instruction including video conferencing and movie making.\r\n\r\nAs the class sizes get bigger the amount of computers I have stays the same. I need updated technology for my students so I have an extra computer for an extra student so they can explore all that the technology has to offer. | null | null | My students need a macbook pro to help them keep up to date with the latest and greatest technology. | 10 | 1 |
56,184 | p234786 | 927a81ae44fe3065483641f14c5df16e | Mrs. | AZ | 2017-02-03 00:04:30 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literature & Writing, Special Needs | Engage all students with flexible seating! | My students are young learners in kindergarten, ranging from age 5-6, and represent many different ethnicities, academic abilities, socio economic statuses and religions. The diversity in my room is one of my favorite parts about teaching at my school. In addition to the national teaching standards I also teach my students International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum, through inquiry. \r\nAll children are naturally curious, and IB strives to foster that curiosity, and encourage students to turn their knowledge into action. I teach my students to make a positive impact on the world and be a responsible global citizen. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n | I have many students who seek movement, and find it difficult to 'sit still' and focus during work time, even during hands-on, engaging activities. \r\n\r\nStudies show flexible seating has a significant positive impact on the brain. \r\n\r\nImproved posture and muscle tone – At the same time the student’s frequent postural adjustments strengthen the core abdominal and trunk muscles. This is important because increasing strength and muscle tone will also promote motor control to use a pencil, scissors and other classroom tools.\r\n\r\nSensory input and energy burning – Some kids just gotta keep moving! Their muscles crave activity, making it difficult for them to sit still for long periods of time or focus on seated activities. Because active seating lets kids move and adjust themselves in a non-disruptive way, they burn off excess energy and get the stimulus their muscles are looking for, making them more attentive in class.\r\n\r\nIncreased blood flow – As a child moves during active sitting, the heart pumps a bit faster and blood vessels in the legs and hips open up which increases blood flow. Better blood flow means more oxygen gets to the brain. With more oxygen, brain function increases, allowing for improved focus and better knowledge retention. | null | null | My students need an inviting, comfortable place to read and listen to stories. This library furniture is just the set to encourage literacy! The wobble stools will be great for the active students, whom seek movement. | 0 | 0 |
118,856 | p069464 | 269236027597ac5f3815e412f59a681a | Ms. | NC | 2016-05-02 19:13:19 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music | Crazy for Ukulele | My music classroom is a busy room with approximately 500 K-8 students attending music class each week. In addition to teaching general music to K-4, I have one 5th and 6th rotating elective class and two band classes. | My students are enthusiastic music makers who love to sing, dance and play in music class. Our school is a small charter school with a focus on fine arts, public speaking, community service and hands-on learning. The best way to provide hands on learning in the music classroom is to have access to musical instruments for all grade levels. My students love music and would are so excited about having the opportunity to play the ukulele. Due to popular demand and generous donors we are only 5 away from having a class set of ukuleles. Help us achieve the goal of being a 1-1 ukulele classroom. | The Ukulele is such a wonderful first instrument to learn to play. It is an extremely versatile instrument to learn melody and harmony and is a great instrument to sing along to. You can learn one chord and sing along with basic folk songs or learn 3 or 4 chords and sing along to a wide range of music from different styles. With Ukuleles in music class, students will get the opportunity to experience music making in a group setting by playing and singing together. | These durable, polycarbonate ukuleles will be able to withstand the wear and tear of an elementary music classroom and will benefit the 228 students who are in general music class this year, and for many years to come. We are just 4 ukuleles away from having a class set, so each student has an instrument to play. | My students need 4 ukuleles to complete a class set of instruments. | 2 | 1 |
66,824 | p251458 | 00ea154cfdf2f4cff26e10ba3b92fa9b | Mrs. | IA | 2017-01-25 16:38:33 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Wiggly Bottoms Need Special Seats | The students in our class are special because they are amazing. They work so hard every day to learn new things. My students have worked since the beginning of the year to learn about reading, writing, math, friendship, and treating others the way they want to be treated.\r\nThey are working on learning to be a great student, friend, and person. I believe it is up to me to make their learning experience the best, most effective, and amazing time they have ever dreamed of. They have a long educational road ahead of them and I want them to fall in love with learning. | My students are learning a lot throughout the day but since we are only 5 and 6 it can be a struggle to have to sit for very long. Wiggle seats will help us to move around while learning and not distract other students' learning.\r\nWe want cushions so we can move them to other parts of our classroom to assist us in all areas of our learning. We can use them at our tables for writing, during guided reading, at their literacy stations, or on the floor during whole group carpet time.\r\nI know if that if my students are able to move as they work their academic success will soar. I am looking forward to seeing how my students grow and change. | null | null | My students need cushions for alternative seating to help them be successful throughout the day. | 0 | 1 |
32,372 | p102598 | d41e5b670ebc70e43f6e21ca87339363 | Ms. | NY | 2016-06-24 10:55:18 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music | We Got the Beat but We Need Drums! | Every single student at my school receives music education. Many students are also involved in the band, and chorus and these groups bring great joy to their lives.\r\n We have seen much improvement at our school through student involvement in the arts. Students are excited to come to school and come to music class to sing, dance, create, and make music together. Music forms a community at our school and brings parents into our schools to see their students perform many times throughout the year, performances students can truely be proud of. We had parents involved in an after school music ensemble with their students. The parents even participated in the concluding performance for the after school group along with their student. \r\n Our school has passion and love for music, but is lacking some of the basic materials needed to run a music program and classrooom. This is a high needs school and our students come from low income households and receive free lunches. They need the tools and supplies to continue challengeing themselves musically and creating performances and music to take pride in. | My students are musicians. They relate to music in many ways such as moving to music, singing, dancing, creating song lyrics, improvising melodies and rhythms. Many of my students are of West African descent and have relatives that play hand drums. As of right now, my students can pat out rhythms on their laps or use their feet and hands as a percussion instrument. They would be so excited to put their knowledge of rhythms and how they fit into the beat of a song onto a real drum. \r\nMy students would use these resources every music lesson. They could use the djembes in reading music notation, in improvising or in creating music on the spot from their own mind. They could incorporate these resources into their performances for the community.\r\nThese materials would help bring to life the rhythms they have internalized and music they have the potential to create! | null | null | My students need djembe drums to enhance their rhythm performances and connect to the music of their culture. | 0 | 1 |
110,432 | p141827 | 42bad15969e5f0bc7d2456bb9b4d84e2 | Mrs. | NC | 2016-11-14 08:40:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Life After Hurricane Matthew | We were a victim of Hurricane Matthew. Most of my students lost their homes and had to be placed in shelters. The area I work in is lower economic and most students receive free or reduced lunch. My students are very eager to learn and before the flood were on the road to a great school year. It is my goal to provide them with a positive atmosphere so that they will be able to return to and can learn in an unrestricted environment. | In Kindergarten whole group instructions are very important. It a time that students gather on the carpet as a whole group and receive instructions and bond with their peers. Students also use carpet time to learn as designated groups. The students use carpet time to gather and reflect in the afternoon. We also use the carpet as a place to gather and talk about what we have learned throughout the week. After the hurricane the students have not been able to get back on the floor because we don't have carpet. We sat in our seats and reflected about our losses and what happens next. | null | null | My students need a place to gather for whole group instructions. We loss all of our carpets in the flood and now the children have no place to sit when we have whole group instructions. | 4 | 1 |
31,893 | p061598 | 3ebabb382ba8de6b269850f85588b76a | Mrs. | AZ | 2016-08-21 22:53:32 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | Making Magical Music | Most of my students live in a single parent household or have lived through some sort of trauma. They are all just looking to be accepted and please the loved ones around them. Sadly, due to their low economical status, many do not have positive role models at home to follow. Therefore, they come to school looking for those positive role models when it comes to their academics and even their well being. They are little sponges eager to learn everything about life. | As many know budget cuts have really taken a toll on our schools. Many schools (ours included) no longer have art, music, or P.E. It is now up to our classroom teachers to provide these enrichment activities to our students. This past year I was able to teach my students how to play the recorders, thanks to a DonorsChoose donation. Because I saw how much my students really enjoyed and looked forward to their music lesson, this year I hope to do the same for my third graders. These resources will allow me to more effectively teach my students how to play a recorder so that they can then perform for their friends and family at our school concerts. | null | null | My students need recorders, music books, storage containers, and vinyl for labeling the recorders and containers. | 39 | 1 |
138,156 | p040646 | e1840ac279746dbeb9020d17116e40c3 | Mrs. | TX | 2016-08-14 20:45:42 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Environmental Science | STEAM And STEM Growing Together. | Our students are always displaying great determination and diligent hard work. We strive to complete STEAM and STEM projects. Our skill set completes all requirements given by the state and we look forward to achieving national standards. Our students bring life to all projects that we incorporate. \r\n\r\nStudents are constantly challenging the boundaries of how our curriculum is based, and challenging how we teach our future. This student based project will allow our content to bring forth better interdisciplinary content lesson plans. | My students will be able to create time framing projects that will allow many projects to be time lapsed and recorded for citation purposes. Our scientific process will allow us to delve deeper into the scientific process and provide judges with indeterminable proof of student works. We will be able to loan students these cameras to document certain projects. Many of our students are below poverty level and do not have means of documenting their science projects. The following cameras will allow students to document time lapsed projects, freeze time projects, slow motion and increased motion projects, and much much more. | null | null | My students need digital cameras for a STEM and STEAM project based assignment. | 6 | 1 |
103,747 | p091163 | dee51e804d70b6be40a5cb36b33d9265 | Mr. | NY | 2016-08-24 13:05:55 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literature & Writing, Special Needs | The Printing Press 2.0 | \"Mr. Pierre, I am ready to learn now!\", one of my 4th grade students said at the beginning of last year when he was given folders, a journal notebook and pencils. This demonstrated to me the deep passion and appreciation my students have for education given the opportunity.\r\n\r\nI work in a Title I school in Brooklyn, New York and my students, though eager to learn, encounter barriers from the moment they enter our halls. My students are in a special education setting and many of them suffer extreme poverty, living in shelters and unstable housing situations. \r\n\r\nThe situation I've described is no fault of our students who want the opportunity to learn and advance their lives. They are engaged and enthusiastic. They are creative and wordsmiths. They love school. Truly! They just need the proper tools. | A printer in a classroom is essential in todays wireless classroom. Students need to print their writing, create projects such as PowerPoints, and start a school newspaper. \r\n\r\nThe Printing Press 2.0 is the brainchild of my students who want to create a school newspaper! Although a printer has multiple uses in our classroom, the most strikingly creative use will be printing a student-made newspaper full of research, opinion pieces, and advice columns that are important to our own students.\r\n\r\nA new high-yield printer will cut production costs and increase the rate of production across the school year. It will also increase reliability. | null | null | My students need a high efficiency printer in order to print their work and create projects throughout the school year. | 10 | 1 |
43,280 | p007430 | 96f91caf1abbd409220ff17e7bf76f5d | Mrs. | MI | 2016-05-02 11:30:08 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Visual Arts | Clay, glaze and storage for the new kiln 05/02/16 | In my art classroom, we pride ourselves on the knowledge we learn every week in class \r\nRemember when you were young and would go to the beach and make sandcastles. Only to watch them get washed away. Clay is a way to preserve our sculptures we love to create and to keep them forever. | My students are inner city kids who need a lot of love and we do not mind giving it. We have 100% free lunch for our children so all of our students have breakfast and lunch daily. Our school believes that no child is any more capable of learning than another and all children are capable and ready to learn each day. We are proud of our students and their achievements. | In my classroom, we will be getting a kiln that will be put in a separate room off of the art room. It is all set up and ready. It just needs metal shelving and the supplies for the students to create. The students will all be doing one clay project each year. | Most students in my school have not used clay as a medium before. Clay is a great way for students to get kinesthetic involvement within the art curriculum and can also be used to help students learn many different areas of study. Like the science of how glaze reacts to the clay and why it's one color when it goes in and another when it comes out. We can make projects and learn about other cultures. Having clay for our kiln will make our goal of creating ceramic items in the art room a reality | My students need clay for our new kiln to create ceramic art pieces, Glaze to paint the clay with and a shelving unit to put in the kiln area to store projects on. | 0 | 1 |
51,803 | p128749 | 2239c24407759da0e39dbeca9abf7896 | Ms. | DC | 2016-08-03 10:05:47 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Curing Autism in Mrs. Carter's Class | My students are extremely special because they have all been diagnosed with autism. Autism is a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts. It also has a severe social and cognitive deficit. \r\nMy students are from the urban part of Washington, DC, and due to the lack of education of many of their parents, guardians and caregivers, do not have the same opportunities as students with involved parents. \r\nEvery year the aides in my classroom make sure my students have everything they need such as school supplies, uniforms and food to make sure they are able to focus on learning and nothing else. \r\nMy students are confident, intelligent people and with the right support will grow up and become great citizens. | These donations will improve my students ability to work independently. It will also help in developing a sensory station for break time, which is essential in dealing with maladaptive behaviors. As most know, students with autism need constant sensory to stay on task. They also require positive reinforcement to work independently. The bright colors and already produced folders will allow my students to practice sitting for longer periods of time to complete tasks without much prompting.\r\nThe donations will allow for classroom variety and allow for us to be able to have go to activities instead of having to make everything from scratch. | null | null | My students need manipulatives and many independent work activity boxes. These activities will focus on math and reading activities. We also need some sensory toys and specifically an inflatable pea pod calming chair. | 0 | 0 |
100,102 | p087108 | 5994987808ed0e7918bdc6872a1fe137 | Mrs. | MO | 2017-04-20 14:30:28 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literature & Writing, Special Needs | Reading Table | My students come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Title I school in a rural area. They are all willing to work hard in the classroom. I want to help them become better at making choices in the classroom.\r\nI have a class of students who are actively trying to become better students. Since I have such a diverse group of students, I make it my goal to make sure that each student has a safe comfortable environment to learn in. | We have flexible seating in our classroom. A true flexible seating environment a teacher has no desk. So the horseshoe table will be used for many different things in our classroom. It will be used for Reading in small groups, small group reteaching, and of course my desk! This table will give me the opportunity to work one on one with struggling students. It will also give students a chance to partner work and become better at helping other students in need. It will also give our classroom extra flexible seating options for the students to use as they need. | null | null | My students need a horseshoe table to go with our flexible seating. | 1 | 1 |
5 | p063374 | 403c6783e9286e51ab318fba40f8d729 | Mrs. | DE | 2016-11-05 10:01:51 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning, Literacy & Language | Character Education, Literature & Writing | Need to Reach Our Virtual Mentors!!! | My kids tell me each day that they want to make me one happy teacher. And they do! They are Respectful, On-Task, Accountable, Responsible & Safe. These are our school's core values. \r\n\r\nThese first graders amaze me with their determination to improvement academically! I have watched them make up a half of school year's worth of learning in just two months.\r\n\r\nMy babies are defying the odds and on their way to closing the achievement gap. They just need more support!\r\n\r\n | I started a program called Telementoring in hopes that each of my students would receive a virtual mentor. The response has been awesome. Adults are providing the much needed encouragement, support and motivation that my students need.\r\n\r\nThe students' writing has improved tremendously and they are also progressing in reading. This is aided by their online interaction with their mentors.\r\n\r\nI need the tablets so I can set up a mentoring station. This would allow for more students to participate daily and expedite academic and social growth. Currently we only have three desktop computers and when working, they are used to access our math software.\r\n\r\nWe have our Telementors. Please help use connect to them!\r\n | null | null | My students need tablets in order to communicate with their virtual mentors through a program I started called Telementoring. Students exchange messages in a shared online folder, video chat and read digital books. | 0 | 1 |
41,187 | p215893 | 9c2f2c5607f4e5a39989faedf281c655 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-08-06 10:05:31 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | Walk On!! | The students at my school are special because they are very diverse. We have about 650 kids at our school, kindergarteners through fifth graders. We also have 3 severely autistic classes. My dream is to bring all of our students together, teaching collaboration, improving fitness skills and encouraging sportsmanship with this project.\r\n\r\nAll of the 650 students at my elementary school will benefit by my fitness project getting funded. I look forward to improving our schools' fitness and collaboration skills.\r\n | Many students form my school suggested that we have a school wide walkathon. Two parents agreed to help organize this event. The students and parents running this activity want to make sure that their is an educational piece attached. They want all participants to celebrate that this event will help us all to improve our bodies and our minds. It will also raise money for our school.\r\n\r\nThe inspiration bracelets donated by this project will be given to all walkathon participants to help them to remember to challenge their minds and bodies at the walkathon and for the rest of their lives. By wearing the bracelet at the walkathon and after it has passed, the memory of our school's first walkathon and the physical and mental motivation that it gave to all of our participants will always be with our proud bracelet owners. | null | null | My students need to think about thoughtful, motivating words written on these Inspirational Sayings bracelets while participating in our school's walkathon and always. | 8 | 1 |
80,757 | p071500 | c36453655ad22687b19015d45146f9a4 | Ms. | TX | 2017-04-26 12:48:32 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Visual Arts | Let's Paint! | I have an incredible group of art students in class. Some of my students come into art with little to no experience, while other students have been taking art since elementary. Regardless of their experience, all students are interested and excited to learn and work with paint. \r\n\r\nMy students are engaged inside the art classroom whenever paint is involved. Paint is a medium that has been used historically, connecting students to the past and pushing them towards the future. I want my students to be able to play with and experience the magic of working with paint. | My students need supplies to create a painting station and a cleaning cart in order to keep the room clean an organized. An organized classroom means more art making time!\r\n\r\nThe painting station will have all materials labeled and organized and the paint squeeze bottles will help with clean up and making sure we are not wasting paint unnecessarily. The clean up cart will have all cleaning supplies sorted and a clean/dirty basket for our rags. Working with paint can be messy and confusing, therefore, having a clear painting station is crucial. \r\n\r\nSince we do not have a lot of storage space in our classroom, having the rolling carts would help us a lot. | null | null | My students need supplies to create a painting station and cleaning supplies in order to keep the art room clean and organized. | 1 | 1 |
112,797 | p073243 | fa77c1550a2418086a601053668f528d | Mrs. | OR | 2017-02-07 19:12:21 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literature & Writing | Carts for Computers | I can not wait to go into work every day to teach these students. They come in excited, motivated, and ready for the day. It's been so fun seeing how into whatever we are studying that they get. I consider it to be my goal to inspire them to love school as they are early on in their educational career. I know when I'm greeted at the door with an eager smile we are making good progress towards that goal. \r\n\r\nI know with additional computer carts, we will be able to have more access to our wonderful computers we've received! | We are so blessed to have received so many new Chromebooks over the past few years...but now we need some place to put them! New computer storage carts will help keep the Chromebooks organized and accessible to all students. \r\n\r\nStoring computers all over our classroom has been a challenge, having them in one central place will make sure students can access our Chromebooks. Often times computers are found dead because they haven't been stored properly. These carts will eliminate that problem and help our students to get more time on their devices learning. \r\n\r\nWe are so thankful for all the computers...and now we'll have a place to put them! | null | null | My students need chromebook carts to hold all our new computers. | 6 | 1 |
35,100 | p150856 | b9ac8111f682ca982dbc7ba29bde19ff | Mrs. | IL | 2016-12-03 23:55:03 | Grades 9-12 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | The Great Bridge Project!! | \"My school is a public school with in a very large school district in which resources are very limited. My school is in a low income area of a very large city. Our school's free and reduce lunch is over 80%. I usually purchase most of my supplies at the dollar store in order to complete inquiry type labs. My students deserve a chance just like the magnet schools in our district to compete at the annual Bridge Building Contest.\"\r\n | STEM is the new buzz word in science but bridge building contest in science has been around for a while. My students have never experience this so I would like to open up a new world in our science department. \r\nBuilding bridges brings together math and science as well as engineering which is all part of NGSS. Students love hands on activities and what better way than to actually design a bridge. My students deserve the same chance that the elite schools in our city's bridge building contest. \r\nDesigning and building will open up a new look at world science in my students' mind and hopefully some will continue and become great designers, engineers or scientist. | null | null | My students need these 5 kits so they can build and design practice bridges before the actual contest in January. | 13 | 0 |
131,343 | p192219 | c4f44d58032212e542f14952a2344c4f | Mrs. | NY | 2016-08-10 20:59:18 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Flexible & Comfortable Seating | We have 65 students in our fourth grade class. I see 21 students for math, 20 students for ELA and all 65 students for Science instruction. Our school is a small, close knit community. About half of our students receive free or reduced lunch. \r\nI would like to think that I challenge my students and give them opportunities to become life long learners. I like to encourage team work and independence, both critical skills to have in life. My classroom is an energetic thriving community. \r\n\r\n\r\n | Flexible seating allows students a choice in where they would like to work on a given assignment. The exercise balls and yoga mats will provide two more options that will be comfortable, therefore allowing students to stay engage in the task at hand longer. They will have the freedom to move about our classroom and not be \"stuck\" in their desk chair all day long. \r\nHaving the ability to choose where they want to work will give my students a sense of independence and ownership. Being comfortable and engaged will provide opportunities for more in depth learning and understanding in all subject areas. | null | null | My students need exercise balls and yoga mats to sit on during independent and group work time. These options will allow students some choices in where they want to work while staying engaged and comfortable. | 0 | 1 |
156,760 | p180124 | b3a3a083d0fb25588819c690b4be5691 | Mrs. | AK | 2016-05-09 20:34:24 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Music | Let the Strings Sing! | \"Long after the toys of childhood are forgotten, the gift of music remains..\" This quote relates to my project because my goal is to give any student the opportunity to learn a musical instrument regardless of their family's socio-economic status. If they want to learn, I'll find a way to help them! | Our school has a very diverse population of over 550. Over 47% of our students live at, or below, the poverty line. We have after-school programs for engaging them in our school community and to help with homework. We also have additional busing which provides students transportation, for these programs, through Title 1 funding. Often, one or more of a student's parents work in a different town, are serving in the military overseas, or live outside our school boundaries and do not own personal transportation. This greatly limits the availability of parent-supervision and limits learning opportunities for the students we serve.\r\n\r\nFamilies in our school are rarely able to provide private music instruction for their children. We have a strong music program where students can be involved in quality, fun instruction. There are 3 ability-level bands, 2 choirs, an extra-curricular Jazz Band, and quarterly music exploration classes; such as African Drumming, Guitar and Beginning Ukulele. | I am a concert violinist; having performed in several symphonic orchestra and won awards for my playing. My degree is in Music Ed K-12 so I learned how to play all band and orchestra instruments (37 instruments). I've taught middle school bands and choirs for 8 years at my school. After advocating for our string students, I am now able to offer Orchestra for the very first time! By combining two choirs into one big class, we found time in my music schedule to offer instruction to string instrument players. Our new principal is supportive. Up to this point, I've hand re-written wind instruments parts for viola and violin players who've transferred into our school. They have received instruction while being embedded in our band classes, but it is not the best place to teach string techniques. The 2 levels of method books will allow daily instruction in key points of string education, across all grades 6-8. Sheet music will give students an opportunity to perform songs in concert. | Starting an orchestra will allow me to \"pay it forward\" and to pay homage to a middle school orchestra teacher who changed my life. In his program, I became a better player and a better student. Every year, we have students who want to start playing a string instrument, or already do, but we only have band classes. Those kids don't get the opportunity to be part of a performance group until high school. Research shows that the earlier a child participates in group music, the better they learn. | My students need Level 1 & Level 2 Orchestra method books & theory books for violin, viola, cello and string bass.\r\nMy students need Level 1/2 and 1 orchestra sheet music | 0 | 1 |
179,743 | p023462 | b603a1b5f9ef7b2170ed3bfc2e128f74 | Ms. | GA | 2016-09-19 00:02:03 | Grades PreK-2 | Music & The Arts | Visual Arts | Pottery Club | This year I am excited to sponsor a Pottery Club at my school. My Title I and Title III school has a diverse student body. These students face many challenges and yet they look forward to coming to school each day to learn. My Pottery Club will offer students a new opportuity of learning by working in the media of clay. Handbuilding with clay resonates with most children. \r\nBy donating to my club, you will be giving these students the ability to know success in a new way. Together we can celebrate the achievement they will feel when they see what their imagination has created. Thank you for helping to support these bright, caring and amazing students. | The clay, glazes and other pottery supplies purchased for the Pottery Club will enable our students to use their creativity and imagination in new ways as they learn to use the media of clay. \r\n\r\nThe students will be learning about hand building techniques, kiln firing and the glazing process. They will learn about the tools and process of Pottery in order to gain an appreciation for this art. They will problem solve and design their work in a sketch journal before they begin to mold the clay itself. They will come to see themselves as artists when they see the beautiful pieces they create. | null | null | My students need pottery supplies such as clay, glazes and glazing brushes. | 0 | 1 |
145,388 | p069465 | 3e9edb69c8052bd31aad4cf7f27d44d3 | Mr. | WA | 2016-09-15 03:07:53 | Grades 6-8 | Health & Sports, Music & The Arts | Health & Wellness, Visual Arts | The Art of Teaching: Kids Need Zen Art in School | I truly believe that as a teacher, I am changing the world. The experiences that I place in front of my students are vital in shaping lives. It is my passion.\r\n \r\nEngage our students and they will soar to amazing heights!\r\n\r\nAcross the board, we have a school where teachers, staff and parents work together to ensure growth academically and socially. We are an amazing team! We have a comparatively high ELL rate, and an equally high success rate of exiting students through the program. From all different backgrounds, the students here never settle until they become the best they can be. | “We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe.” ― Ray Bradbury, from Zen in the Art of Writing is a perfect quote from one of my favorite authors to sum up what I have believed in with all my heart as a teacher. Teaching art in school is still an important part of our curriculum. Trust me, I know the importance of rigor in school when it comes to core academics, and every student that passes through my doors will be pushed to his or her academic limit. However... \r\n\r\nArt has multiple benefits including calming an anxious mind, increasing self-confidence, and cultivating moment-to-moment awareness in a similar way as mindfulness meditation. \r\n\r\nSpecifically, Zentangle drawing teaches how to own mistakes, because there are no mistakes in Zen Drawing, just a pathway to something new. This is a powerful art form that goes hand-in-hand with teaching the growth mindset in school, all the while improving hand-eye coordination. | null | null | My students need supplies to learn about the important artform of Zentangle. A starter kit to get them started, blank tiles, black thin-tipped pens, and extra colored pens will really expand their creativity. | 4 | 0 |
137,970 | p214175 | 2eaa12a8521b52b1f8358c9dee746dea | Mrs. | CA | 2016-09-11 18:46:25 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | STEM Kits for Maker Space | Students in every grade level of our school receive a STEM education. What is unique about our school is that ALL students that live in the neighborhood are allowed to attend our STEM magnet school. \r\nOur community serves a significant amount of low socioeconomic and ELL students. Our amazing students are curious and innovative learners It is our mission to provide quality STEM education and experiences to each and every student at our school. This project will focus on bringing STEM innovation into our primary grades for a more hands on experience. | Our school is a STEM Magnet TK - 8th grade. All of our grade levels integrate STEM learning across subject areas. We focus on the 4 Cs of 21st century learning which are Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking. This project will enhance all of those skills.\r\nOne of our goals this year is to provide a \"Maker Space\" or Engineering Lab for our students. \r\nThey will be able to explore the new NGSS standards and focus on the engineering design process while becoming STEM learners. The kits will allow students to explore and create while being collaborative and creative. Writing will be required of the students in order to show their learning and hold them accountable and track their progress. | null | null | My students need STEM learning kits to explore the engineering design process. These kits will be made available to all students in our school's \"Maker Space\" | 1 | 0 |
39,686 | p156593 | 1dca2565c38955a1d0ec97c80fb336fd | Mr. | CA | 2016-09-01 00:06:53 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Literacy & Language | Environmental Science, Literature & Writing | STEM Books for Animal Reports | My students come to school each and everyday with an incredible excitement to see what's coming next. Many show up early to an open classroom to chat and play with some of their favorite classroom resources and dear friends. \r\nWe are an arts integrated, expeditionary learning school that emphasizes learning through meaningful experiences. Our students have an integral part in creating their learning path. In doing so, we hope they are empowered to create a school that reflects the world they want. | I am asking for a collection of non-fiction books about animals and other assorted science topics. These books will be used as students conduct research on subjects of their choice (usually animals). \r\nIn First Grade we introduce research projects by exploring how to identify an area of interest, investigate that theme safely on the internet, then use programs like Google Draw to present what they have learned. We need these STEM books to supplement the information they find on the internet and verify their predictions. \r\nStudents will use these books everyday during our Readers Workshop by reading independently, with a buddy or in groups. It's my hope that Chevron can help realize this project. | null | null | My students need a large collection of non-fiction books to bolster our library and jump start our research. | 39 | 1 |
81,679 | p016802 | 985a283ecd707d147f68f8d524563110 | Mrs. | AZ | 2017-03-28 17:12:27 | Grades 9-12 | Applied Learning, Music & The Arts | Character Education, Visual Arts | Creative Sticky Murals | My students are amazing. Most want to learn. Many are excited to be at school, while others feel they are forced to be here and they want nothing to do with anything. \r\n\r\nMy students have potential that many of them aren't even aware of yet. They haven't had the opportunity to shine and see what their strengths are because they have failed so many times. They are great students who need a little extra encouragement and a little spark to get them going. Sometimes, adding hands-on activities are just the thing they need in order to be inspired about school. Sometimes, having technology to interact with is just what they need. Sometimes having something beautiful to see is encouragement to come every day. | Typical school days include writing on lined paper, typing on computers, and drawing on white paper. Why not change it up a little? Why not create projects on the walls (that are easily removable) and have fun doing it?\r\nThankful trees, Butterflies of encouragement, Favorite quotes: all on a wall to see and enjoy - and then take home. I want my students to be able to see the beauty that themselves and others come up with in a creative and fun way. A tree that is made up of leaves of what they are thankful for. A garden of flowers that have butterflies of encouragement. Pictures of students and staff with favorite quotes can all be educational and fun at the same time. | null | null | My students need gel pens and post it notes to make creative, inspiring and fun murals. | 67 | 0 |
16,732 | p071237 | 8216c69f14d02d57738e1b626b5da074 | Ms. | NY | 2017-03-04 17:02:02 | Grades 9-12 | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Feed Our Minds: Hungry Students Need Snacks | \"Miss, I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat?\" I happened to have an apple on my desk left over from my lunch (cliche, yes?) and gave it to the student.\r\n\r\nWithout fail, I get asked at least twice a day if I have any snacks or food to share with my students. While the majority of my students qualify for the free-reduced lunch program, most of them don't eat the food offered because of its appearance and lack of taste. Others don't have time to eat because they end up using their lunch period to make up a test or meet with a teacher about a class issue. By the time students get to my class, they are hungry. Hungry students make it difficult for me to teach - they are irritable and tired. Imagine if you had to write an essay or read Shakespeare and the last time you ate something was 12 hours ago at dinner? | For this proposal, I am requesting bottles of water and snacks for when my students are hungry. These basic life essentials, will enable me to help my students stay awake and energized so they can master the content needed to pass the class and graduate high school. I've also requested snacks to help students stay focused when they are taking standardized tests. These three-hour exams are grueling, and something simple like a little snack can help them put forth their best effort.\r\n\r\nNo child should go hungry while in school.\r\nWith your help, my students will have access to water and snacks to help them stay awake, energized, and ready to learn. Thank you in advance for providing my students with life essentials! | null | null | My students need bottles of water and healthy snacks such as oatmeal and crackers to help fight their hunger and stay focused on school. | 197 | 1 |
134,428 | p201031 | 0c9b41ea7e1a47f3fb34d4307ee0d289 | Ms. | CA | 2016-05-24 02:01:05 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science, Health & Sports | Environmental Science, Health & Wellness | Keep our School Garden Alive and Thriving! | My students are all in middle school at a Title 1 school. Despite the urban location of our school, they're all still budding gardeners. They're not afraid to get their hands dirty in our school garden. This allows them to better understand the value in fresh, locally grown food and its connection to healthy eating. Moreover, gardening has become a relaxing experience for a number of students.\r\n\r\nThey've all learned about sustainability and gardening practices through integrated curriculum, and they've been able to make connections across their classes. This integration has helped our students see the bigger picture in our school garden and what it means to garden. They're a curious group who follow our school mission of becoming critical thinkers and agents of change. | This past school year a group of teachers and their classes came together to start our school garden. We planted a variety of fruits, vegetables, and herbs from corn, green onion, strawberries, beets, tomatoes, and mint. It was inspiring and refreshing to see our urban students get close to nature while they planted and tended to our garden. Gardening has been seen as a moment of relaxation of many of our students. They quickly took ownership in it, tasting and sharing the fruits of their labor.\r\n\r\nOur kids want to get their hands dirty and get close to nature - something that can be difficult to do in our neighborhood. Fortunately, our garden flourished, but we need to keep up with the demands of the plants. We're currently limited in our gardening supplies, and need access to more tools and materials in order for it to continue to thrive. | null | null | My students need the tools and materials to maintain our school garden. | 4 | 0 |
141,522 | p158115 | 69ac9535d1157bb00056c1beb997448c | Mrs. | TX | 2016-08-02 15:59:21 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, Health & Sports | Health & Life Science, Health & Wellness | Walking and playing with a purpose! | My students are special not only to me, but to others! They have special needs and have a hard time learning in many ways that you and I do! It often takes a lot of thinking outside of the box to help these precious children learn. One way that fosters learning is hands on and real life application scenarios. This way of learning makes learning come to life and make the concept being taught stick in their brains more so than just listening or watching a video on a topic. | This project will make learning real for my students! This technology will allow my students to learn and solve real life problems by using pedometers. \r\nThe students will actively engage in daily, weekly and monthly challenges in order to promote health and wellness, as well as apply the information gathered to solve real world math problems. My students would love to be able to have the opportunity to experience this challenge first hand and be able to challenge themselves like never before! I can't wait to see how much they learn and grow as students and learners through this hands on experience. | null | null | My students need pedometers for real life math application practice in class. | 1 | 1 |
54,782 | p204000 | 67e8a7cf2ed9cfbfed855b7cc1a8ef58 | Mrs. | NV | 2017-04-02 15:03:00 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literature & Writing | Class Library Lacking Chapter Books | This past year I have worked with some of the most creative, dedicated, motivated, strong- willed, bright, funny, loving, athletic, learning disabled, and high energy students who have come from every background and socioeconomic status imaginable. We both have walked into a new one of a kind educational institution not only focused on rigorous academics, but also the importance of the arts! The arts is something that has become lost throughout so many of our schools. This school is focused to not only keep the arts alive, but also to use the arts as a way to implement and teach the rigorous academics our students now face.\r\n\r\nThere is no one right way to learn! We are all so different in such a multitude of ways, but we all have one common goal and that is to get our \"brains big\" so we can be the absolute best that we can be! This is my daily motto and belief that I remind my students everyday. They walk into my class knowing the high expectations set and understand that no matter where they came from I am going to do whatever it takes to help them be successful! | As we enter the last stretch of school I am finding that my students thirst for chapter books is beyond what my class library offers. They keep asking for enriching stories both fiction and non-fiction that they can read when they are finished with their independent work. They are constantly wanting to change books as their current reading level is beyond many of the books I currently have on hand for them to read. \r\nDue to my students exceeding their reading academic levels and our school not having a library, I am in need to provide them with some enriching literature. I would also be able to provide enrichment activities in using some of these storiesthat would help increase their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. | null | null | My students need CHAPTER BOOKS! As we head towards the end of the year and my students are academically growing, I am finding my library dismal in books catered to their current reading levels. | 3 | 1 |
28,940 | p251676 | 3d841d1f61b0eb5e47efd754292ccc19 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-08-21 02:35:12 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports, Special Needs | Health & Wellness, Special Needs | Stand Up for Success! | My students have mild/moderate disabilities ranging from Autism to Specific Learning Disabilities to ADHD. They are 3rd-5th graders, whose instructional levels are 1st-4th grade. They need to move often, and despite our frequent \"brain\" breaks, many of my students cannot sit still for more than a few minutes, which makes learning new information difficult.\r\n\r\nMy students are unique individuals who work hard to learn, having to overcome learning disabilities, speech impairments, physical limitations, and for some, erratic home lives. They are energetic and enthusiastic learners, who respond to positive interventions and strategies.\r\n\r\nResearch has shown that students learn more effectively through kinesthetic activities and physical movement. My goal is to provide my students outlets to calm their bodies, so their minds can focus, and they can reach their potential. | A stand up desk will allow my students to have a physical outlet, so their minds can focus and absorb new information. The donations for this project will improve my classroom by reducing the amount of behavioral issues caused by students having to sit still, when they are unable to do so.\r\n\r\nDonations to this project will allow me to offer an alternative work setting, which will help my students learn more effectively and be successful! The stand up desk is a quiet and positive alternative, which will not disrupt the learning of others. Students will be allowed to move in an acceptable way, giving them confidence and the opportunity to grow academically. | null | null | My students need 1 stand up desk to provide positive movement so their minds can learn! | 0 | 1 |
46,619 | p217200 | a07abe0b216c61cda867d803439e0d16 | Mrs. | MO | 2016-08-04 10:18:39 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | Wiggle While we Work!! | My students are amazing! We are a two time National School of Character and study the 7 Habits. We lead assemblies, take on classroom jobs, practice public speaking, and work on creating positive relationships with others. My students strive to show good character everyday! \r\n\r\nWe love to learn! My students work hard to learn Reading, Writing, Math, Science and Social Studies everyday. As our littlest learners, they like their learning fun and hands-on! This takes many materials to keep lessons new, engaging and exciting. | My Kindergartners love to move!! Sitting still in our hard plastic chairs is a challenge for any of my little ones. One of the classrooms next door received these wobble stools and I have never seen my students so excited!! \r\n\"Can we have those Mrs. Kroepel?\" they begged. We came back to our room and had a class meeting. I asked them \"why do you think we needed different chairs?\" They had many answers, from our chairs are hard to the new ones are just fun! My students loved that they could stay seated but still wiggle and move in their chair. \r\n Since it's similar to a yoga ball chair, students are building core muscle strength which will help their overall body health. I want them to get their full 60 minutes of activity a day. Anything that allows my students more movement will improve their muscle tone and allow them to be more active during recess and PE and get the most out of their outside time. | null | null | My students need wobble stools to wiggle while they work and build core muscle strength. | 20 | 1 |
174,400 | p077830 | 020b59e12425138ee43047027a4755c6 | Mr. | OR | 2016-06-29 14:36:25 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Music | Music Books for New Musicians | Students throughout our community will be attending a brand new middle school next year and there is much to be excited about. For the first time in several years, students will get a choice of band as one of their elective classes! Since this is a new program at a new middle school, there is quite a bit of work to do. Parents and families in the community are already showing generous support for our new music program, yet our students still need many essentials to kick start a successful year in music.\r\n\r\nLearning to play a musical instrument is a valuable experience for a young person and can deeply impact their life. For many of these students, middle school band will be their first exposure to a music class in school. My job is to make sure their first experience is positive, fulfilling, and fun. That's why I am asking for your help. | Band students will need instrument method books. While learning to play an instrument is fun and exciting, learning to read and interpret musical notation while playing with an ensemble is the goal. The Essential Elements method books provide a comprehensive, sequential model for learning to play a new instrument while learning the basics of music theory, ear training, composition, improvisation, history, and ensemble playing. Students can also access the online music studio which provides video tutorials, recordings, learning activities, and a recording studio that includes all the music from the books. Students can play along with a live recording and then record themselves to be later assessed by the teacher.\r\n\r\nThese method books have helped many of my former students and continue to evolve as does my classroom. Through this method book, students have an opportunity to practice at home or away from school on their own time. When a student is able to continue their learning at their own pace, they gain a new perspective into their own learning that can stay with them further into life. I want to provide those opportunities and show these musicians that learning to play music can be a lifelong joy. Please consider helping our young musicians find their potential to become a musician for life. | null | null | My students need method books for each specific instrument in the band including flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and percussion. | 1 | 1 |
168,251 | p175442 | 8ad19da0fd793b76d4402170f0fc496b | Mrs. | CO | 2016-11-03 15:46:45 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Flexible Seating for Focus | I am fortunate to have many different groups of students in my portable classroom throughout a school day. At our building we place 5th graders in different groupings where they can move into multiple classrooms for instruction on a daily basis, so most days I have at least 50 different students in my room. These kiddos come from families of varying educational backgrounds, careers/vocations, and socio-economic status.\r\n\r\nMy students are social, energetic, creative kiddos who enjoy working collaboratively. They have really grown into a community where kindness and accountability are a focus. We set goals and work hard to achieve them. | Gray matters. We all need to activate our brains for maximal learning and retention and movement is the key to that activation. My classroom is a small portable, so there is not much room for movement of growing 5th graders. Having flexible seating options like stools that wobble or chairs that rock will provide opportunities for movement in a distraction free way, so the emphasis can stay on kids being focused for learning. Wobble stools can be used at a desk, as well as, be easily moved around the room for collaborative work. The rocking chairs can also be used for a calming effect when kids engines are running too high. | null | null | My students need flexible seating options to optimize and enhance their focus. | 1 | 1 |
126,090 | p129122 | a1b77d44a2d79156e8d0861444cc5ea0 | Mrs. | CA | 2017-03-07 17:58:32 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Math Manipulatives at EQ3! | At our school we know the road to college begins in Kindergarten. We are committed to preparing 100% of our scholars for college. We place great emphasis on academics, but also recognize the importance of building strong character. This will serve our scholars through the many challenges they may face in life. Our core values include Curiosity, Optimism, Gratitude, Grit, Self-Control, Social Intelligence, and Zest. \r\n \r\nWhat makes our school special is our collaborative team of educators dedicated to meeting the needs of all scholars. We love teaching, enjoy planning projects together, and are always looking for ways to improve. Our team also recognizes the importance of partnering with families. We stay in constant communication with our families regarding their scholars’ progress so that they can further support instruction at home. They are our partners in achieving academic excellence. \r\n \r\nWe are proud of our accomplishments in our founding year, and are excited to continue to grow and expand our impact in the Pico-Union community. \r\n | Our approach to mathematics is one that builds on scholars' natural problem-solving strategies. \r\n\r\nTeachers build from scholars' prior knowledge so that students can eventually make connections between situational experiences and the abstract symbols typically found to represent them in mathematical equations. This approach is different from the traditional method of teaching the symbolic computation first. \r\n\r\nStudents represent these mathematical situations with the use of manipulatives to represent their thinking. This helps our scholars dplay with math, and discover the many ways we can get to a solution. We're in need of these manipulatives so that scholars can show their problem solving skills. | null | null | My students need math manipulatives to further build their conceptual understanding of mathematics. | 5 | 0 |
112,365 | p064065 | 820bf8a42dec8fbeca6731758c655046 | Ms. | MS | 2016-12-04 11:19:03 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Music & The Arts | Literature & Writing, Visual Arts | Help Us Put Our Supply Shelf Back Together Again | My students are creative, active, and absolutely amazing! We are Title 1 School, but my students don't let that hold them back! 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. The majority of my students receive free or reduced lunches. Despite so many hardships, my students are eager to learn and do their best.\r\n\r\nMy kindergartners are enthusiastic and always eager to learn as soon as they enter the classroom every day! I love to hear them say, \"What are we doing today, Ms. W?\" I am so blessed to be a part of their lives. | As you can imagine, Kindergarten students use a ton of glue and crayons during a school year. We have worked our little hearts and tiny hands so hard this semester, and our crayons and glue sticks are almost gone. I am asking for a classroom set of Crayola crayons, a classroom set of Elmer's glue sticks, 3 prong folders for our daily reading homework, and laminating sheets to protect the workstation items that I have printed and made throughout the year. I thank you in advance for helping out my sweet Kindergartners as we continue to grow this school year! | null | null | My students need to replenish our supplies. It is the middle of the year, and we are extremely low on crayons, glue sticks and folders. | 5 | 1 |
8,186 | p015242 | 94521fc8438fdde1b14c2d2b977227de | Ms. | IL | 2017-01-10 12:14:22 | Grades 9-12 | Special Needs | Special Needs | Special Education Students Need Work Station Desks and Chairs! | My students are currently enrolled in a low incidence autism program that focuses on increasing independence into adulthood. My goal for my students is for them to be independent and functioning members within their communities. To do this we work on increasing academic as well as functional skills within the classroom and on community outings. Most of the students within the low incidence autism program are currently functioning academically between pre K-3rd grade. Every student in my school receives free breakfast and lunch. We are located in a high needs area of Chicago.\r\n | My students will use these materials for everything! They will sit in the chairs while they learn and they will utilize the desks for writing, molding, measuring and more while working in small groups ! These are the building blocks of a classroom and they will increase the student's abilities to interact with each other.\r\n\r\nMy current classroom has a combination of large rectangle desks and square desks that do not fit together and take up so much space while not allowing us to work in our small groups effectively. New desks and chairs will help facilitate everything else in our room. | null | null | My students need new small work tables and chairs for small group work! | 29 | 1 |
49,702 | p221607 | 785a97a754e7c1b3072097ef53282f1b | Ms. | CA | 2016-09-14 18:39:52 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | COMFY CHAIRS WILL HELP US BECOME SCHOLARS | Our student population is diverse. 40%of our students are English language learners, and 42% receive free or reduced lunch. We are located in an affluent neighborhood and have students bused in from our downtown area. \r\nOur school mission encompasses addressing different learning styles using innovative techniques including mindfulness, and differentiated instruction. Research has shown that offering children a variety of choices for their work space allows them to engage more fully in learning. Many of our students have challenges with traditional seating. | The bean bags chairs and yoga stability ball chairs will provide the students the gross motor skills and stimulation that will help them sit quietly, listen to instructions, and complete work and become more independent learners. In second grade many students have difficulties staying still while listening the teacher. For example, while we are on the rug for story time many students are rolling, or during small group work many are tapping their feet or pencils and touching other students. The stability ball chairs can provide them stimulation to help channel that energy so as not to interrupt others and help with focus. With more focus the students will be able to learn and become the best scholars they can be. | null | null | My students need different types of seating due to different learning styles in the class. These will be shared evenly among the 5 different second grade classes. | 0 | 1 |
136,456 | p071184 | 6386f1857d6344f1d883a836793fab3d | Teacher | LA | 2016-08-12 14:03:33 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Mathematics | It's a Happy Day in Pre-K! | My students are special because they are provided with a head start in education. The students are from low income families mostly single household parents. At 4 year old the students have the opportunity to experience settings of hands-on materials, free lunch, free field trips and free transportation.\r\n\r\nMy students and parents are the best because we work together as a family to provide the best education a child can receive no matter the circumstances. Happy students make a happy teacher. | My project will give 4 year old students the opportunity to work independently or in cooperative groups to complete math task. The math manipulative will add more hands-on activities and students will have a variety of choices to choose from. Students will become more knowledgeable and confident when counting, adding or subtracting.\r\n\r\nit is very important that our students gain knowledge in math at a very early age with a variety of manipulative. With this project my students will be able to match objects, sort, count, add and subtract. It is a Happy Day in Pre-k when students are learning. | null | null | My students need the math manipulative to enhance his/her knowledge with matching objects, sorting, counting, adding and subtracting. | 0 | 1 |
63,021 | p059111 | cf43acb3823a1aa7f650dcbf05b6d682 | Mr. | CA | 2016-11-01 19:25:08 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | Learn the Science of Lost Wax Jewelry. | Our population is a great mix of diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We have a large Asian, middle eastern, Hispanic, and African students. Since we are a small district we lack funding for areas outside of Language Arts and Math, which are the tested common core areas. But our students have a desire and concern to do their best, they put their hearts into their work and deserve better supplies for science, social studies, PE, and electives. \r\n\r\nThe students can grow into scientists that will make an impact on the world. They need exposure to the many diverse fields the sciences offer. The variety of materials will give them the competitive edge they need to succeed. | In my experience chemistry is taught in an abstract manner. In this project the students will be creating their own wax rings, carving them into individual pieces of jewelry and making a plaster mold. Then we will heat tin in our new foundaries and creating their own works of art all utilizing the fascinating aspects of molten metal and jewelry. It is an ancient art form that is being lost by todays emphasis on computers and tablets. These will become precious because they made them from wax and created a lasting piece of real metal jewelry. \r\n\r\nI think they will appreciate the knowledge gained from this lost wax experience of actually melting down tin and producing a casted ring from their own wax carvings.\r\n | null | null | My students need the experience of casting metals and making their own molds, to really appreciate the variety states of matter chemistry. | 8 | 0 |
163,825 | p047927 | d06c7212074c8d4a3152cb0cd9465ff2 | Mr. | VA | 2017-02-21 14:23:44 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, History & Civics | Applied Sciences, History & Geography | Green Screen Projects\r\nHelp Wanted! | I teach in a Title I school with 100% free and reduced lunch. The poverty rate in our area is one in four and our urban school experiences many of these issues. Students come to school with disadvantages from poverty, gang experiences, and struggling parents. Some students will come and go between schools multiple times in one school year. They come to us and sometimes are in a safer environment than at home.\r\n\r\nWe are engaging our students in arts integration and a stem lab that pairs younger students with older students as stem-buddies. Our students experience time in our auditorium with drama and dance activities in content areas. Our goal is to motivate our students through out-of-ordinary learning experiences. We want them to love coming to school. | Students will research and present their knowledge on all content areas through the magic of green screens. For example, after researching tornadoes, students are able to record and demonstrate what they've learned. Students will create news stories, sports moments, history and science shows. All teachers have one iPad and the green screen app to allow students to create their shows. Storyboards, script writing, public speaking weave into content area presentations for all. Every classroom K-5 will be able to participate.\r\n\r\nGreen screens and iPad technology engage students and push them to be researchers and presenters. Our school population will learn from one another through exciting, fun experiences. | null | null | My students need iRig Pro Duo to connect audio to iPad. | 0 | 0 |
23,432 | p237559 | ba11626241ef38925d4f357b0666eeee | Ms. | LA | 2016-06-15 16:37:19 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Environmental Science | Hands-On Exploration \r\nthe Problem Solving STEM | My students participate in an accelerated STEM program and are eager to learn. They range in age from 4-6 years old. There is an equal amount of girls and boys. They are Hispanic, Chinese, African American and Caucasian. They all have a free lunch status and are from low income families. Their diversity and experiences adds to the uniqueness of the class. \r\nFocusing on my students natural curiosity helps them to become creative thinkers who see themselves as scientist, mathematicians, and/or engineers. My students grow and become problem solvers through the experiences and activities I provide which makes learning meaningful and fun.\r\n | My class begins each morning exploring a variety of engineering/science buckets. I observe and pose questions to the groups to help them think deeper about what they are discovering. Students are encouraged to work with a partner to solve problems without the teacher's input to develop cooperative team work.\r\nThese requested materials will help expand the student's' experiences, heighten their curiosity, and create new problem solving situations.\r\nMy students love the marble maze that we have but the addition of the roller coaster, wonder maze, and engineer-a-coaster will provide ways to understand force and motion on a much higher level, not to mention, the wealth of problem solving opportunities. The energy stick will be a great introduction to electrical circuits before they begin exploring the snap circuit system workstation. \r\n | null | null | My students need these hands on materials to develop higher level thinking and problem solving skills as they learn how to work with others. | 0 | 1 |
91,397 | p078904 | 82e22613ee91fcfbbad4e75c343a63ae | Ms. | CT | 2016-11-16 22:22:28 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Special Needs | Mathematics, Special Needs | Binder Finder! | My students are the best! They are fun, creative, and love to learn. They are challenging and rewarding! They are funny and caring. They love school and I love them! I want to ensure they reach their true potential and provide them with access to all the materials they may need to help them to become more successful.\r\n\r\nMy self-contained classroom consists of thirteen amazing students, all with extremely varying needs.\r\nAll of my students receive specialized instruction for academics, life skills, social/emotional/behavioral skills, speech, and occupational therapy. Many of my students have behavioral needs and self-help goals.\r\n\r\nMy school is located in a very high-needs area where supplies are extremely limited. My school consists of twelve hundred students ranging from grades pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. All of our students receive free breakfast and lunch.\r\n\r\nThey love, love, love technology, particularly iPads! Unfortunately, technology at my school is outdated and very limited!\r\n | My student learn through hands on activities. We utilize interactive notebooks on a daily basis for reading and math. Every one of my students have their very own math and reading binding which is filled with common core related reading and math skills to help target their individual learning needs. \r\nMy goal is to make these notebook binders more accessible to my kiddos, providing them with a neat, organized space for them to find and return their binders. \r\nMy students take pride in their work and often like to show it off to their peers, parents, specialists, and even to view on their own. Providing them with a designated and accessible spot for them to locate their work will help to encourage them to take pride in their work and reinforce key skills they need to succeed! \r\nPlease consider helping to support my students! | null | null | My students need a shelf in order to keep their math and reading interactive notebooks organized and accessible! | 19 | 1 |
18,169 | p024710 | ae9045b24c56b38f7d4d10b4e66e160b | Mr. | MN | 2017-01-17 14:59:38 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Googlify Our Classroom | I have a diverse class of 22 students in a K-2 school of around 500+ students. Our school is a Title I school where 40%+ of our students receive free or reduced-price lunch. In my years with the district, my class size seems to only get larger and my classroom budget gets smaller. \r\n\r\nMy students amaze me each and every day within the classroom while they are learning, I just want to be the best teacher I can be and provide my students with the best. \r\n\r\nOur school is a PBIS school, promoting a Positive Behavioral Intervention System by teaching our students the school's core rules: Be Respectful, Responsible and Safe. We also follow the Responsive Classroom model to help provide a positive community within our classrooms. | I've challenged myself to utilize the limited technology that I have by having my students using the few resources I have in reading groups, writing, and math groups. Rarely are the limited pieces of technology not being utilized in my room. In fact, most of the time students are waiting for their turn to use a device. My students use SeeSaw to connect with their parents. Utilizing this site with the Chromebooks, students are able to show work, record videos, and themselves reading their writing pieces every day. It's my way of bringing the classroom to the families at home. I have also incorporated technology into my math centers on a daily basis that provides individualized differentiated instruction. We also use Kahoot, another exciting and engaging website. This site gives students a fun way to be assessed in a game-like atmosphere! My students will also use Google Classroom for all subjects. This is a great way to allow students to work on publishing pieces of writing while receiving feedback from me. \r\n\r\nOur school currently has not had the funds to provide our students with 1-1 devices.\r\nMy students are constantly asking to use the technology resources I currently have limited devices available to assist them with their reading, writing, and math. Additional technology in my classroom will allow more students an opportunity to utilize and interact with 21st Century technology. Using Chromebooks within our classroom will provide a purposeful learning experience for my students. | null | null | My students need Chromebooks to help enhance their learning environment past the four walls of the classroom. | 5 | 1 |
38,083 | p072010 | 8ceff9110ef0a7525b355e64e1b62143 | Mr. | IA | 2017-01-13 16:00:19 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | From Abstract to Reality. | I have done STEM related projects in my science classroom here in rural Iowa for over 20 years. Every year I can hear the students say things like \"wow, this is so cool\" or \"Did you see what I built? My students enjoy doing hands on projects and I strive to give them as many opportunities that I can.\r\nDoing hands on projects brings out the problem solver in my students. Students discover that there are many different ways to approach a problem and solve it. My students seem to thrive when given the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.\r\n | Students will take their designs from a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program and print them out on a 3D printer. All my students learn how to design utilizing CAD but they lack the means of converting them into actual physical objects.\r\nI would like the students to be able to see that their designs have real world applications. A 3D printer would enable the students to apply what they know to other activities. For example, every year we construct battle bots. Battle bots are robots that students build and control. The object of the activity is to construct a robot that can push another robot out of the ring or disable the opponents robot. The 3D printer would enable the students to design and build components for their robot, thus taking an abstract idea and making it a reality. This same scenario could be applied to the many other activities we do in science class. | null | null | My students need to take abstract to reality with a Sindoh's DP200 3DWOX 3D Printer and filament. | 1 | 1 |
29,117 | p196555 | 432d73df7a323dc85f1bb88b46c60633 | Mrs. | IN | 2016-08-11 16:13:35 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness | Active Bodies, Engaged Minds | My students are inquisitive, fun-loving, respectful, kind, and responsible children. They love to learn and to show what they know. They are active participants in their education. They are students that need to stay physically active to fully stay mentally active.\r\n\r\nMy students do not see learning as a chore, but as an opportunity. They truly love to learn and to share their knowledge with others. They make learning and teaching fun! They go above and beyond every single day! They deserve every opportunity I can provide for them. | This project was inspired by my very active and wiggly students. They have said that it is hard to concentrate on math in the afternoon because their bodies are ready for the movement of recess. Stability balls and wobble chairs will allow students in my classroom to choose a place in the room that best fits their needs. We are also requesting a workout DVD that we can use for inside recess to allow for physical activity when we can't go outside for recess.\r\n\r\nThis project will allow me to meet the needs of those children who want to be successful, but cannot show their full academic potential without the use of these tools. The student make up is changing constantly. It seems that every year there is an increase in students with sensory issues, with attention issues, and students who struggle in a traditional classroom setting. We use a variety of tools in our classroom to meet individual student needs. My students have expressed a need to move throughout the day. I think providing them with stability balls and wobble seats may be just the thing they need to fully focus.\r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need healthy snacks and options for all day movement such as a kid's workout DVD, stability balls and wobble chairs. | 29 | 1 |
108,710 | p025265 | a9d006b3a4d158a338f570156f59de7f | Ms. | CA | 2016-09-01 00:22:56 | Grades 3-5 | Applied Learning | Other | Beautiful Copies | My school has an academically and ethnically diverse group of students and I make it a point to get to know as many students as possible. Each one is unique and interesting to chat with. The office and the after school program have been great ways to build relationships with future students. The students in room 20 are TOP NOTCH! Picking my students up from the field in the morning is the highlight of my day on campus. They are usually waiting with smiles. I like having fun in my classroom and inject humor and playfulness as much as I can. But the best days for me are when my least motivated students are excited about we were are learning. It is my ultimate goal to have a classroom fully equipped with technology capable of helping my students meet and exceed grade level expectations.\r\n\r\n | A fully equipped classroom is within my reach! I am asking for items that will show my students that I care, and that there are people who are willing to take action towards improving their classroom experience. \r\n\r\nI want my students to have beautiful copies! The copy machine at my site prints several unwanted lines down the center of each page. I will use the toner to replenish a personal copier I found in an old supply room. I have been using my all-in-one printer from home to scan and make copies of pages that would be a shame to send out with lines. \r\n\r\nThe headphones are for students to use while using the computer I have in the classroom. I have students who are learning English. These headphones will be used for interactive English Language Development. Help my students thrive! | null | null | My students need a classroom with easily accessible supplies. The toner would be a big help! | 3 | 1 |
58,378 | p069438 | 2424bdde9a47a890f952d206a2d7a0ce | Ms. | NY | 2017-01-17 17:27:30 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Learning Through Listening: A New Literacy Center! | Our Dual Language Program gives students an amazing opportunity to learn in two languages and provides them with exposure to the world through two different lenses. Growing up in New York City, our students are surrounded by a bilingual world and now they have the opportunity to not only interact with that world outside of school, but also within their very classrooms. Our second graders enjoy learning about different content areas as they discover a new language. Our classroom provides a safe environment where our students grow as they learn from their teacher, but more importantly, they learn from each other. | Our class is made up of children from all over the world who contribute so many different-yet wonderful experiences to our 2nd grade class. Despite these diverse experiences, one thing remains certain: no matter where they've come from, their love for reading brings them together as a class! \r\n\r\n\"The more that you read, the more things you will know; the more that you learn, the more places you'll go!\"-Dr. Seuss. \r\n\r\nHaving a new listening center will give students the opportunity to independently sit and read along while listening to a story read aloud through the CD Player. This allows students to hear fluent reading, thus modeling what they should sound like when reading out loud on their own. In addition, it's a fun way to expose students to literature above their own reading level and build their comprehension through more complicated texts. | null | null | My students need a new listening center complete with a CD player, headphones and books which with they will read along. | 2 | 0 |
56,251 | p150667 | d2931702bc5dcce396c7d2ed3435636f | Mrs. | OK | 2016-07-29 16:00:11 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | Classroom Manipulatives for My Amazing Second Graders | As a teacher working in a low-income/high poverty school I want to give my students every opportunity to succeed in school and in life. My students are smart, funny, and full of potential. We work hard and achieve greatness in our classroom. \r\nThe majority of students in our school are on free and reduced plans and come to school looking for more. My students deserve to have every opportunity available to them and I want to make that happen for them each and every day. My class is full of brilliant minds just waiting to come to life! | My students will be using the base ten blocks and the snap cubes to make meaningful connections during our math class. Students will use these during centers to be able to look at a problem in a more abstract way. There are times when students cannot visualize a problem that's simply written on paper and these supplies would help my students think outside of the box! \r\nI want to give the students in my classroom a variety of ways to look at math and to provide them with every opportunity available to have success. These students deserve to have manipulatives that will make that happen! Hands on learning is vital in today's math world and these would be a huge blessing to my students. | null | null | My students need Learning Resources Plastic Base Ten blocks and Learning Resource Snap Cubes to have meaningful hands on experiences within the centers in our classroom. | 0 | 1 |
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