This week, we’re helping elementary school classes in Florida, where they need a human torso model, and in Texas, where they hope to assemble a classroom science library. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.
The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science and math projects for red-state public schools in low-income neighborhoods. As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.
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This fifth grade class in our new main project is in a tiny town on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
MAIN PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students a model to learn the organs and organ systems in the human body!
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Yankeetown School, Yankeetown, Florida
Total: $178.58
Still Needed: $153.58 Completed, thank you! Please see next project.
Teacher’s Comments from Mrs. Dorminey:
My Students: My students are kind and natural leaders. They love to come to school. They are always getting recognized for their excellent attendance rates. Despite coming from a rural area, they find a way to get to school every day.
My students are creative and driven by success.
All of my students are fascinated with technology and dream of a life filled with it. They aspire to do great things and when asked what they want to be when they grow up, they know math and science are in every essential career. Most of my students only have access to technology at school.
My students are explorers. They are full of grit and drive to do better. They know the way to living their best life is through hard work. Their education is their ticket to go anywhere!
My Project: My students are enthusiastic about anything we learn in science. I love teaching them about new things that they might not have heard about in previous years.
Science standards in the fifth grade are the first year students learn about organs and organ systems.
This is extremely exciting for them because get to talk about guts and what is happening all around our body. I did a paper organ lesson last year and it didn't have the same effect as if they could see how everything fits in the body and actually hold an organ model. This model could help show concrete examples of what we are learning.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
(This is a more complicated model than the one being requested.)
We made very good progress last week with this terrific science/literacy project. nomandates told us, “Let’s help this teacher build an engaging classroom library to reinforce and extend his students’ regular science lessons!”
LONG-TERM PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students a science reading library to help take them beyond the walls of our classroom as we study and read about different science topics.
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: John McKeever Elementary School, Alamo, Texas
Total: $671.55
Still Needed: $285.02 Completed, thank you! See you next week!
Teacher’s Comments from Mr. Trevino:
My Students: My students are from a Title l school that receive 100% free lunch. We are located close to the Mexican border and our students are hard-working, curious individuals who love to tinker and try new ideas and challenges.
This year I would like to incorporate a science reading library that I can use during my daily lessons.
I like to incorporate different learning strategies such as group work, and other activities that help motivate and nurture their creative minds.
I am blessed to have a truly incredible group of learners that are excited and ready to take on the challenges that come with their daily lives.
My Project: These books will continue to enhance the print-rich classroom that we strive to create in our science lab. A classroom library will be a place that my students can use to gain additional information on the many science topics we learn each day.
Students will also be able to choose books which will help them continue to enjoy the independent reading time when they finish with their regular assigned lessons.
The best way to increase reading ability is to read more, and these books will continue to help my students grow stronger in reading.
By having a reading library, I hope to instill in my students a love for reading and as a way of having them learn about the world around them and while escaping the current pandemic and stress they are living during this time that reading a good book can offer.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Requested book list:
- Whoosh!: Wile E. Coyote Experiments with Flight and Gravity
- Aliens and Energy (Monster Science)
- Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Engineers: With Stem Projects for Kids
- Bigfoot and Adaptation (Monster Science)
- Werewolves and States of Matter (Monster Science)
- Scribble Stones
- Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story (Paula Wiseman Books)
- Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to Be Awesome Scientists
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Where
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Weather
- Mars' First Friends: Come on Over, Rovers!
- Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World
- Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
- Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
- Sun! One in a Billion (Our Universe, 2)
- Moon! Earth's Best Friend (Our Universe, 3)
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the World
- Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of How
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Science
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Things That Go
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Why 2
- Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship
- Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years (Our Universe, 1)
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Bugs
- Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Programmers: With Stem Projects for Kids
- Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Paleontologists: With Stem Projects for Kids
- Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Astronauts: With Stem Projects for Kids
- Smart Kids: Space: For Kids Who Really Love Space!
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean
- National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space
- Smash!: Wile E. Coyote Experiments with Simple Machines
- Mummies and Sound (Monster Science)
- Vampires and Light (Monster Science)
- Vampires and Cells (Monster Science)
- Frankenstein's Monster and Scientific Methods (Monster Science)
- Zombies and Forces and Motion (Monster Science)
- Zombies and Electricity (Monster Science)
- A Place for Pluto
- Bugs A to Z
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Our main project from last week was completed, with a big assist from our readers!
Mr. Goebel’s Indiana 9th and 10th graders are, as nomandates pointed out, enrolled in Early College High School, and he needed resources to develop at-home lab projects to help his students explore beyond simply reading about chemistry. The project was Colorful Flames.
He writes: Thank you so much for your help,
It is because roof people like you that we are able to succeed I. Times like these it is a refresher to have support for public schools. We are still trying to work with these kids even when we are not in person.
Our Dollars at Work
In lieu of photos this week, we have a wonderful thank-you video from some of the teachers whose projects have been funded by DonorsChoose, along with founder Charles Best.
I join them in saying thank you to everyone in this community, whether you’re able to donate or you support us by dropping by to recommend and share. Everything helps, and even as we make other political efforts to make the big picture better for public education, meanwhile we are helping teachers and students one classroom project at a time, and every one we can reach makes a difference.
ALSO: there are one or two people who show up on a project as donors from time to time, commenting there that they saw the project on Daily Kos, but they don’t correspond to anyone who comments here. I would just like to say to them that we see you there and we appreciate your support! I say thank you to you out loud when I see your name there, but I have no way but this to say it to you. So, thank you!
Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science push in conservative America by funding science and math projects in red-state classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding charity founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau.
Every Sunday, we focus on helping to fund science or math projects, preferably in neighborhood public schools where the overwhelming majority of students come from low-income households. We welcome everyone who supports public school education — no money is required!
Finally, here’s our list of successfully funded projects — our series total is 868! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.org.