This week, we’re helping a Texas teacher bring her students programmable mini robots, and a Georgia second grade to sharpen their math skills using the calendar. 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.
This El Paso 3rd-grade teacher wants her students to be able to understand coding by using tiny Ozobot Bits programmable robots. The 2x matching funds are from Google.org: We’re incredibly grateful for the work teachers do every day to create learning environments that represent all students, so we’re contributing $4 million to double donations to classrooms, while funds last, through the #ISeeMe campaign, as part of our new $5 million commitment to public school classrooms.
MAIN PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students the experience of coding with a little robot, Ozobots Bits.
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Lee Elementary School, El Paso, Texas
Total: $371.89 (2x matching funds from Google.org)
Still Needed: $371.89 $201.89 ($101 from us)
Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Almeida:
My Students: I am a first year teacher and I work at a Title I school in a low socioeconomic area, and 100% of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. For some of our kids, these are the only two meals they have in a day.
Although my kids face many challenges, they are always eager to learn.
We are three miles away from Ft. Bliss, so we have many military families in our school as well. Our school is located in a border city, and many of my students moved here from Mexico and are English language learners. I'm always looking for innovative ways to teach my kids and encourage them to love school and learning.
My Project: My students love to learn new things. Coding and technology is a huge part of our society. The Ozobots will be used to allow my students the opportunity to learn to code and program these bots.
By donating to this project, you will help my students to acquire skills which will boost their academic achievement and help them in today's society.
The world is ever-changing and my students want the opportunity to change and grow with it.
This will allow my students to learn the academic material they need, but in a fun way. My students will have the opportunity to incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) into their everyday learning.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
This never-before-funded teacher hopes to help her Atlanta-area second-graders with math using calendars. If you use code AMBASSADORS at checkout, you can double your donation!
LONG-TERM PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students great math skills by incorporating Calendar Math time into their morning routines!
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Susan Stripling Elementary School, Norcross, Georgia
Total: $219.54
Still Needed: $219.54 Completed, thank you!
Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Rodriguez:
My Students: My class is filled with 22 hard-working 2nd graders who love to engage and interact in group work, center time, and engaging activities. Because this is a Title 1 school, some of my kiddos come in below reading level. They try so hard, so I want to try hard to help them reach grade level by whatever means necessary! Each year I have added new tools to help them improve in different aspects of their education, including literacy and numeracy.
My Project: In 2nd grade, Calendar Math is always a great way to gather the children together every morning for a quick review of a variety of math skills, including money skills, bundling skills, days of the week, months of the year, and number sentences. Student can also learn pattern skills, base ten skills and more. In addition, if the students are able to practice these skills on erasable white boards, they will be able to reinforce the skills they are practicing which will help greatly! Using these two items in the classroom will greatly increase my students’ math fluency for years to come!
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Both of our projects from last week were completed, with lots of help from us!
Mrs. Huggins’ North Carolina elementary students will get the equipment they need to design and build solar energy models, thanks to the project Solar Energy Engineers.
She writes: Words cannot express my gratitude and appreciation for caring citizens like you! Your support and generosity will significantly impact academic achievement and students' interest in solar energy. Providing opportunities for our students to learn science with hands-on exploration will allow them to stretch their boundaries to the fullest in their imagination, critical thinking, interaction, and self-regulation as well as to practice their newly acquired skills.
Ms. Neal’s Mississippi upper-elementary students will get microscopes so they can do real, hands-on lab projects, thanks to the project A Microscopic View of Science.
She writes: Thank you so much for funding this project. Although it is summer, I have had the opportunity to share the details of the project with some of the students and they were overjoyed at the thought of being able to learn about the microscope, learn how to use one, and be able to view things using a one hands-on and not with a handout or watching videos. You have provided me an opportunity to create an experience they will carry with them for life!
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 758! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.org.