Time to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I like to keep an eye out for projects posted on DonorsChoose.org, a site where teachers from around the country can post classroom equipment needed to enhance the learning environment for their students. This one caught my eye today, posted by Pennichuck Middle School teacher Monica Tino:

"In an ever changing world, science students need to be able to access the Internet, and how to learn from it.

My students are very diverse. About 50% of our students receive free/reduced hot lunch. We have many students for whom English is their second language. Overall, the school is small, with approximately 600 students. I have about 100 students a year for science. This iPad would be used with all of my students.

An iPad would provide many opportunities for students that don't have access to the Internet and enhance the lives of those that do. An iPad can be used as a document camera to show the results of science experiments and live organisms. It can be used to record the work of students and display it. An iPad can also be used with my projector to show students sites on the internet, use apps to enhance learning and to model 21st century learning.

A classroom iPad would enhance my science classroom endlessly. I am sure that I do not know all the possibilities yet. My students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge in a way that we cannot right now. These are our future scientists, they need all the tools they can get." 

Click here to donate to this project today.