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2022: Science in Middle School and Kindergarten [1]

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Date: 2022-08-07

This will be our third week working on this project for a never-before-funded Georgia earth-science teacher, and I hope it will be the last! I say that because, during this past week, the project has picked up a 2x matching-funds donor, so the remaining amount to be funded is half what we might have expected. We can do this!

PROJECT #1 Project: Just a Few Scientists, with No Resources...Safety First?...Oh Boy Resources: Help me give my students the necessary safety equipment and resources needed in a lab, to increase student productivity and generate higher-order thinking daily in the classroom. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Mundy’s Mill Middle School, Jonesboro, Georgia Total: $412.12 (2x matching funds from An Anonymous Funder) Still Needed: $ 196.59 $46.59 ($24 from us) Project description by Ms. Monday: With year one almost coming to an end and next year on the horizon. I would like to provide my students with the most accelerated, STEAM-focused, mind-stimulating version of my earth science curriculum. I have realized within my first year of teaching, I lack tons of necessary safety materials and resources. How can we conduct labs? With NO safety goggles! Some requested materials and resources are basic and others a related to earth science. The purpose of this project will give me the resources needed to provide daily stimulating instruction and meet the needs of all my Kinesthetic, Visual, and Auditory learners. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! When Ms. Monday’s students see their new cross-sectional earth model, they’ll start learning some fascinating things about our planet! x x YouTube Video (But wait!) x x YouTube Video

Here’s another project from a never-before-funded teacher, this one teaching early elementary students in a small city in central Florida, about midway across the state from Tampa. She’s seeking books and lab kits about plants, insects, growing crystals, and more.

PROJECT #2 Project: Never Stop Questioning Resources: Help me give my students new and exciting real life science experiences in the classroom with discovery kits. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Janie Howard Wilson Elementary School, Lake Wales, Florida Total: $355.81 Still Needed: $ 246.99 $181.99 Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Williams: My Project: My students are at the beginning of their educational career and are excited about everything they are learning. In our classroom we strive to be lifelong learners, these amazing science discovery materials will allow us to participate in some real life strategies. Never stop questioning! This is our motto and by embracing this, our class can gain knowledge in each activity we complete from growing our own vegetables to learning new cultures through hands on activities. With your help, students will be able to not only watch the root systems of their plants grow but identify the beneficial insects on each leaf. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! One of the resources requested is a lab kit for germinating seeds and watching them grow in a see-through growing medium. As it happens, I just love seed-germination cross-section time-lapses! This one is a kidney bean. x x YouTube Video The pea vine illustrates how that spinning behavior works for the vine when support is made available. x x YouTube Video Bonus: three baby oak trees take their time sprouting from acorns! x x YouTube Video

Our main project from last week was completed, with the help of a matching grant and our readers! Project #1, Graphing Materials for Title I Mathematicians: Mx. Joya teaches in a multi-lingual Houston high school. The school is unable to supply the pencils and graph paper needed for studying algebra, and the cost to supply so many students is beyond Mx. Joya’s means (and the students’, for that matter). They write: Thank you so much for your constant and continued generosity. Your contribution will help ease the financial burden of school supplies on my students. These materials will help us make unique and interesting projects and activities. These materials will be put to excellent use and allow students to see concepts visually. Once again thank you from the bottom of my heart.

DonorsChoose has developed the designation Equity Focus Schools to describe some schools that submit projects. They meet two criteria: at least 50% of students are Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, or multiracial, and at least 50% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, the standard measure for school economic need. You can read more at the link about their efforts to address the longstanding inequity in education.

Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science, anti-education push in conservative America by funding science, math, and literacy projects in red-state public school classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose, 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 projects 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 988! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.

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