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The Inoculation Project 1/15/2023: Lunar New Year and Plant Pigments [1]

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Date: 2023-01-15

We’ve made such good progress on this project for the last two weeks, I’m moving it up here, hoping the class can get their materials before Lunar New Year starts on Jan. 22. Initially, nomandates wrote: This teacher is requesting a fun assortment of books, origami paper, and other supplies for completing engineering challenges while learning about the Lunar New Year.

PROJECT #1 Project: Exploring the Lunar New Year With STEMs! Resources: Help me give my students the resources to learn and explore the Lunar New Year with engaging books and hands-on STEM activities. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households Location: Berea Middle School, Greenville, South Carolina Total: $523.80 Still Needed: $ 138.21 $78.21 Project description by Ms. Olenja: My students are excited to learn about the Lunar New Year! It is something not many of them have previously learned about, but it is so great to get involved in understanding of new and different cultures. They are dedicated engineering students who are excited and eager to learn about the world around them. My students will be so thrilled and excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated all across the globe, as we explore a variety of fun STEM challenges and books. This project would give my students the resources needed to integrate the engineering Design Process to complete engineering challenges and increase our literacy skills while learning about the history, culture, and customs around the Lunar New Year. My students are excited to learn how to apply their engineering skills in new ways with real-world applications while we learn about the Lunar New Year! Having resources will make these activities easier to provide for my students. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! x YouTube Video This year’s animal is the rabbit. My origami rabbits never just pop themselves open like that! x YouTube Video

This is quite an ambitious project, but it has almost six weeks left and I think we can push it over the finish line. (If we can’t, they’ll give our donations back, so no harm trying!) Ms. Delchamps teaches high school biology in Mobile, Alabama, and she wants her students to be able to do a fascinating project to understand what pigments plants use to go about their business of photosynthesis. They’ll need, among other things, this snazzy little spectrophotometer.

PROJECT #2 Project: Pigments and Wavelengths of Light Resources: Help me give my students a fun, educational lab experience where we can actually see the wavelengths of light absorbed and reflected by plants. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; more than half of students from low‑income households. Location: Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama Total: $1,105.96 Still Needed: $ 995.96 $925.96 Project description by Ms. Delchamps: This project focuses on preparing plant extract to see and measure the wavelengths of light absorbed by the plant pigments. They also understand why we see pigments in certain colors. The first step in photosynthesis is absorbance of light for the energy source, and this experiment lets students see first hand how the light-dependent reaction works. They are then able to demonstrate by graphing the different wavelengths of light absorbed and reflected. Students love to see how science actually works in the world around them. This lab is one of my favorites! DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! The Amoeba Sisters give us a rundown of what’s going on. x x YouTube Video For those who’d like some more detail, and additional snark, Hank Green can help you out. x x YouTube Video

Our main project from last week was finished up by an ‘outside’ donor later in the week, after two weeks’ effort from us on a project that had been languishing. Project #1, A Journey to New Worlds: Mr. Muga teaches sixth grade in San Bernardino, California, where his students love to travel through reading to far-off places. He wanted a science fiction novel for them that would extend their travels and experiences. As I write on Saturday evening, Mr. Muga hasn’t seen the good news yet. We’ll bring you his note when it’s posted.

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 1012! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.

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