2026: Insects and Chem Labs

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Sunday January 18, 2026 · 7:00 AM PST

2026/01/18 · 07:00

Banner for The Inoculation Project series, with added caption "Solid science education is the best inoculation against ignorance."

This week, we’re helping a New York State third grade study insect life cycles, and a New Jersey high school explore a number of topics in chemistry. 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, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods. As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.

Inoculation Project lower banner with Neil Degrasse Tyson quote, with caption.

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Sunday January 11, 2026 · 7:00 AM PST

2026/01/11 · 07:00

This week, we’re again helping an Allentown PA kindergarten that needs new STEM supplies, and a Camden NJ high school that needs chemistry lab kits. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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Sunday January 04, 2026 · 7:00 AM PST

2026/01/04 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping an Allentown PA kindergarten that needs new STEM supplies, and a Camden NJ high school that needs chemistry lab kits. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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Sunday December 28, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/12/28 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping a North Carolina middle school class and an Illinois first grade each get appropriate materials for hands-on learning and experiments. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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Sunday December 21, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/12/21 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping a California fifth grade needing soil for the raised garden beds they’ve built, and a North Carolina middle school needing hands-on engineering supplies including “Snap Circuits”. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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Sunday December 14, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/12/14 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping a Los Angeles preschool teacher who hopes for materials to teach reading, and a North Carolina middle school teacher who needs hands-on science activities. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

belinda ridgewood

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Sunday December 07, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/12/07 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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Saturday December 06, 2025 · 5:45 PM PST

2025/12/06 · 17:45

In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) will track science, math, and literacy projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and supported by Daily Kos readers.

Our regular TIP diary will post at 9:00am CT on Sunday with our currently featured projects, which can always be found on TIP’s blog page.

About TIP: Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods.

We focus on those schools because, as How Unequal School Funding Punishes Poor Kids points out,

About four in 10 students attend schools in districts with poverty rates of upwards of 75 percent, which perpetuates the structural poverty that keeps families trapped in poor communities with impoverished schools.

Underfunding education doesn’t just leave the most vulnerable children ill-prepared for the world, it makes the world a crueler and more divided place to grow up in.

As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.

Quote from Mae Jemison, first black woman astronaut: We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations. — Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut

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Sunday November 30, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/30 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

belinda ridgewood

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Sunday November 23, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/23 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping two Texas classrooms — a first grade needs books, and a kindergarten needs interactive educational games that can work with a tablet or phone. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

belinda ridgewood

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Sunday November 16, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/16 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping a Jersey City high school class get materials to keep journals, and a Texas kindergarten get interactive educational games that work with a tablet or phone. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

belinda ridgewood

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Sunday November 09, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/09 · 07:00

This week, we’re helping an Arizona middle school teacher and a Miami elementary school teacher, both of whom need lab equipment so their students can do hands-on science. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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📚 The Inoculation Project 1/11/2026: Penn-NJ Part 2

📚 The Inoculation Project 1/4/2026: Pennsylvania-New Jersey Border Edition

📚 The Inoculation Project 12/28/2025: North Carolina and Illinois

📚 The Inoculation Project 12/21/2025: Garden Soil and Electrical Circuits

📚 The Inoculation Project 12/14/2025: Los Angeles Preschool and North Carolina Middle School

📚 The Inoculation Project 12/7/2025: Science in Texas and Montana

📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII

📚 The Inoculation Project 11/30/2025: Texas Border and Blackfeet Nation

📚 The Inoculation Project 11/23/2025: Two Texas Projects

📚 The Inoculation Project 11/16/2025: Journals and Osmo

📚 The Inoculation Project 11/9/2025: Science Lab Supplies