This week, we're helping to provide hands-on materials for 200 elementary schoolkids in North Carolina to design solar energy projects and 2 microscopes and some slides for 65 students in Mississippi to share as they study cells and photosynthesis.
We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help these teachers and students 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.
For today’s main project, students will design solar energy projects, then exhibit them to their parents and the community.
MAIN PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students a solar powered robot, Elenco 90 motorized model kit, and 6-in-1 Solar Kit.
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Ferguson-Easley Elementary School, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Total: $204.16 (2x match offer)
Still Needed: $204.16 Completed, thank you! Please consider guitar project below.
Teacher’s Comments from Mrs. Huggins:
My Students: My students attend a Title I school, where 100% of the students receive free lunch. Most of my students struggle with reading fluency and comprehension. Many students come in with a lack of confidence to be successful readers. My students are aware of their deficits but are incredibly motivated to do well and overcome obstacles that may be thrown their way. Therefore, I want to be able to support each student with the necessary resources they need to be successful.
My Project: Solar energy is a major renewable energy source with the potential to meet many of the challenges facing the world today. Therefore, if this project is funded, students in grades 3 -5 will design a product that uses solar energy to help improve our daily lifestyles. They will also research efficient model designs to generate ideas for their project as well as write a proposal for their invention. Upon the completion of this project, students will invite their parents, friends, and corporate leaders in the community to a fun-filled night of innovation, as they showcase their solar energy projects. Hopefully, this learning experience will prepare students for the future and help save our planet.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
This never-before-funded science teacher is requesting two microscopes because they’ve apparently been having to make do with virtual labs.
LONG-TERM PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students an opportunity to use microscopes and have real-life experiences to impact their view of science.
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Inverness Elementary School, Inverness, Mississippi
Total: $466.29 (2x match offer)
Still Needed: $426.29 $177.06 Completed, thank you! Please consider guitar project below.
Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Neal:
My Students: I teach science to 5th, 7th, and 8th grade students. Many of the students I work with are passionate about learning the science content and being able to apply their knowledge. However, sometimes resources are limited and may hinder them from reaching their full potential and maximizing their full understanding.
Being able to utilize materials that provide a hands-on learning experience will greatly benefit the students and impact their leaning environment by providing real-life learning situations that will create connections for the rest of their lives.
My Project: The students in my class will use these microscopes to complete hands-on labs to help them truly understand what a microscopic view is. The microscopes will be utilized during topic discussions such as plant and animal cells and photosynthesis.
The microscopes will provide my students with an opportunity to learn a more in-depth knowledge of certain content.
They will gain a better technological perspective that virtual labs just can not provide them. By being able to view everyday items using slides they themselves prepared will be life-changing. The students will become more well-rounded and greatly enjoy this experience of a lifetime.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
🎸 Here’s another project we can support: kossack zenbassoon is a music teacher, and currently has an ambitious project open to provide guitars to his music class, in a high-poverty school in red Indiana. It’s not science/math, but we certainly have supported other projects by Daily Kos teachers in the past, and we’re glad to share it here and encourage our readers to donate or to support it with FB shares, tweets, or whatever other means occur to you. He’s going to need plenty of support to make that goal! 🎶
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Our donors helped to complete all of last week’s projects. Here are the teachers’ thank you notes:
Prototypes and Cardboard Creations
Thank you so much for helping to fund this project. I hope that this gives many students the opportunity to create and bring life to their ideas. I believe strongly in bringing STEM to students and showing them that they are capable of becoming scientist, engineers, mathematicians in addition to being strong leaders. Thank you again for helping to make this possible for a few more of our most needy and deserving students! Make sure to be on the look out for pictures of my students with their new creations!
With gratitude,
Ms. Fresorger
Morning STEM Bins
Thank you so very much to each and every person who donated to my project! I am so extremely excited to create such a great cooperative learning opportunity for my students! I cannot wait to start with these Stem bins the first day of the upcoming school year!
Thank you so much for investing in my students who are the future of our country!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Williams
Tools for Social Good
Thank you so much for your generous support with this project. It is my goal to prepare my students for their futures, not just with basic academics, but with the 21st century skills and knowledge they will need to contribute to society. Your donations will forever be appreciated and I can't wait to share they great work that will come from this project.
With gratitude,
Ms. Smith
Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science push in conservative America by funding science and math projects in traditionally 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 756! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.org.