This week, we’re helping an elementary school library in Washington get some climate-focused books, and a high school in Oklahoma resupply their science labs. 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.
We have two new projects today!
Mrs. Riviera is an elementary school librarian in the state of Washington. She wants her library to have some award-winning books about climate and environment. We have the help of matching funds this week only, from An Anonymous Supporter: This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re proud to offer limited-time doubled donations to teachers who are requesting items that will help students explore climate science and the environment.
PROJECT #1
Resources: Help me give my students library books to learn how their actions can affect the environment.
Economic need: An Equity Focus School; more than half of students from low‑income households.
Location: Olivia Park Elementary School, Everett, Washington
Total: $350.58 (2x matching funds from An Anonymous Supporter)
Still Needed: $335.34 $190.93 ($96 from us)
Project description by Mrs. Riviera: I am the librarian at a Title 1 school. We have lots of students that love our non-fiction section. The books in this project are nominated for our state awards that focus on climate and our environment. I use these books to teach library lessons and the students look forward to reading these non-fiction book each year!
Climate change and our environment are important issues to learn about.
These books are packed with fascinating facts covering geography, history, climate, and nature. Teaching about climate change and the environment is crucial for empowering students to understand the impacts of the climate crisis, fostering a sense of responsibility for the planet, and developing skills for future environmental leadership.
Please consider supporting this project to help me get these twenty books on our shelves and share these award nominee books with our students. The conversations around these books will be life changing.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Biomimicry, the topic of one of the requested books, is explained in a CBS Sunday Morning segment.
Our new long-term project is likely to be with us for a bit, since the matching funds it enjoys today are from the same anonymous-donor, teacher-appreciation-week-based pool as our first project. However, there’s plenty of time to work on it!
Mr. Wooten teaches high school in a tiny rural town in eastern Oklahoma, located in the Cherokee Nation. He’s trying to update his biology and chemistry labs, and could use some supplies.
PROJECT #2
Resources: Help me give my students a basic functioning biology and chemistry lab with selected items that will help improve the quality of education for my students by updating outdated/missing equipment and providing new hands-on activities.
Economic need: An Equity Focus School; more than half of students from low‑income households.
Location: Gore High School, Gore, Oklahoma
Total: $890.87 (2x matching funds from An Anonymous Supporter)
Still Needed: $790.87 $666.46 ($334 from us)
Project description by Mr. Wooten: By selecting items that are able to be used across multiple classes. this will help improve effectiveness and efficiency, reaching the most students. These carefully chosen items will help provide a foundation for which we will be able to expand upon. The scales, goggles, flasks and other items were chosen for versatility, reusability, and efficiency.
Providing updated, safe, and engaging hands-on supplies and materials for my biology and chemistry students will enable them to safely perform numerous activities.
Our current lab is being updated, but with the budget dedicated towards facility and hard asset upgrades, additional hands-on supplies would be greatly appreciated.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
SciShow teams with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to explain what phytoplankton are and why they’re so important! A requested item is a set of microslides that includes phytoplankton.
Both our projects from last week were completed, including the one the HAD to be completed before it expired during the week! Many thanks!
Project #1, I Can See the Math So Clearly Now: Mr. Stockbridge teaches high school in a rural town in southern Colorado, and he needed a device incorporating several different light sensors, to help his students learn to work with data.
He writes: Thank you so much for your help! I will write each of you individually in a few minutes. I was telling my students about this project this morning and the final donation came in literally about 15 minutes later. Talk about a thrill!
With the end of the school year only a few days away, the shipping date for this equipment has been pushed to August. So you will be hearing an update on how things are going with the equipment this fall.
Project #2, STEM-A Project (Science, Technology, Engineering-Activity Project): Mr. Brillantes teaches middle school in a BIA school on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and he had some wonderful ideas for presenting physics concepts to his class, if he could get the materials.
He writes: Thank you so much for your support and believing in our classroom! The students will really benefit from these Science, Technology, Engineering and Math materials and kits. Donors like you make it possible for me to do my job effectively. Thank you for your contribution and making the world a better place!​ ​
| 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 1168! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.
