This week, we’re helping with materials for a Texas middle school class to get ready for a local STEM competition, and Georgia third and fourth grade classes to study the nature of ecosystems and the five regions of their state. 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.
This project is down to its last day, but it is ALSO down to a very do-able amount, especially if we can help interest outside donors who are looking at the DonorsChoose “urgent” list. We made remarkable progress on this last week!
Mrs. Dougherty needs help to supply her middle-school students in a Texas border city with what they’ll need to compete in a nearby STEM competition.
PROJECT #1
Resources: Help me give my students Various STEM Kits to prepare for upcoming competition.
Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households.
Location: William B Travis Middle School, McAllen, Texas
Total: $489.62
Still Needed: YAY!! Completed, thank you! Please consider project #2 below.
Project description by Mrs. Dougherty: Please help inspire young scientists. The STEM Kits will help various students prepare for competition. Students will be able to perform engineering skills to be able to compete against 10 schools.
These young scientists are eager and ready to apply their engineering skills.
Our students come from a Title I school and want to experience a science competition at the local college and the kits will be used for their competition.
Our students’ goal is to be able to compete and showcase their projects and their science knowledge and skills Let’s keep their science interest sparked.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
The requested kits are specifically designed to ready students to participate in Science Olympiad events. Here, again, is a short video from the organization responsible for these events.
We have a new longer-term project today! Ms. Mitchell teaches both third and fourth graders in this town in southwest Georgia, and she needs some science resources for both grades.
PROJECT #2
Resources: Help me give my students kits to learn about ecosystems and regions of Georgia.
Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households.
Location: Cooper - Carver Elementary School, Dawson, Georgia
Total: $323.59
Still Needed: $323.59 $261.82
Project description by Ms. Valisa Mitchell: We are studying ecosystems and animals on the 5 regions of Georgia in Science and Social Studies. My 4th graders will use the ecosystem kits to learn how organisms work together in different environments. My 3rd graders are studying the 5 regions of Georgia. They will make dioramas of animals and plants in the different regions of Georgia. I have learned over the years that children learn and remember they learned when they are exposed to hands-on kits. These kits will be used to help them remember the information needed to understand the standard.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
For the fourth-graders, this cute terrarium kit will let them build their own ecosystem. This video from the maker of the kit shows how to put a terrarium together.
Last week, we completed our #1 project, with the help of everyone reading!
Project #1, More Stem Time Please!: Mrs. Schroeder wanted to expand the materials available to her Wisconsin elementary students for their much-loved STEM time.
She writes: Thank you so much in helping fund my Donors Choose project. My students and I are beyond excited to get the items and begin building and using them during our STEM time. The items are going to be very useful in our everyday school day. Thank you again, we really appreciate each of you!
| 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 seeks to fund science, math, and literacy projects in 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 1093! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.
