Note: Our regular diary will post on Sunday morning as usual. This is TIP’s new success list diary for tracking science and math projects supported by Daily Kos readers who have shared, cheered, or donated through DonorsChoose.org to our featured projects.
About TIP:
Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by crowdfunding science and math projects in red-state classrooms and libraries. Every Sunday, we focus on helping to fund two science and math projects, preferably in neighborhood public schools where the overwhelming majority of students comes from low-income households.
About DonorsChoose.org:
TIP’s conduit is DonorsChoose.org, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools. Founded in 2000 by Charles Best, a public-school history teacher, DonorsChoose.org is a crowdfunding charity, one that is highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau.
Here’s an introductory video about DonorsChoose.org featuring Michelle Obama and Stephen Colbert:
DonorsChoose.org is also the first charity to be recognized among the top 10 of Fast Company's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies and operates in accordance with a deceptively simple philosophy (my emphasis):
“Teachers know how to improve education,” [Best] says, “but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.”
[….]
“We’ve heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes–and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. And yes, we have a position on that, and a response to people who raise that question,” says Best, evenly. “ ’Screw you. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.’ ”
Since our inception in 2009, TIP supporters have helped fund over 600 DonorsChoose.org projects! Here are our previous lists of successfully funded science and math projects:
TIP #s 1-200
TIP #s 201-400
TIP #s 401-500
TIP #s 501-600
Current list:
601. Dance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun!
602. Math Fact Fun
603. Science and History: Novel Study of The Green Glass Sea
604. Bye Bye Butterfly! Life Cycle of the Painted Lady
605. Makey Makey STEM Project
606. STEM Education in the Classroom: Developing a Passion!
607. Reduce and Reuse: Reducing Our Carbon Footprint in the Garden.
608. Inclusion Is for Every Child
609. Enthusiastic Engineers
610. Robotics and Art: Putting Art in STEM
611. Becoming Responsible People
612. Future Architects of the World
613. How Fast? Wisconsin Fast Plants!
614. Equipment Needed! Keep Science Safe and Hands-on!
615. Joysticks for the win!
616. Global STEM Challenges!
617. Get Techy at Family STEM Night at the Library
618. Everyday Pre-K Mathematics at Home
619. Think, Create, Learn!
620. Scaled Up Design
621. Our Classroom Is Infested With....Worms?!
622. Coding to Learn in Kindergarten!
623. If I Can See It Modeled, Then I'll Remember It
624. Telescope Shows The Stars!
625. SAND and WATER Play
626. Bringing The Environment Into The Classroom.
627. All Packed Up and Ready to Learn Some Math
628. "Play is the real work of childhood." ~Fred Rogers
629. Worm Habitat
630. Looking Deeper After Hurricane Maria! Part 1
631. Here Comes the Sun
632. What's the Weather?
633. Building up STEAM: Bringing Interactive Art into the Science Lab
634. Passion and Perseverance Can Make Electricity!
635. The Pressure Is On!
636. Seeing In the Dark!
637. Engagement in the Math Classroom
638. Hurricane Maria Won't Stop Our Hands-On Learning Experience!
639. The Recess K'nextion
640. Ground Erosion an Environmental Study
641. Looking like a Scientist after Hurricane Maria!
642. Manipulating Math After Maria Mayhem
643. Help Build Our 4th-Grade Geometrical Minds!
644. Our Small Animal Farm Students Learn, Care, and Share
645. Green Apple Day of Service - Project Greenhouse
646. Books + Tools for Creating Cardboard Construction = Future-Ready Learners
647. Full STEAM Ahead!
648. Uncovering Science!
649. Little Literature Leaders
650. Illuminating Astronomy
651. Science and Literature
652. Creepy Crawly Science
653. Money Madness
654. What's the Weather?
655. Building Number Sense in K4
656. Kindergartners, Coding, Robots, Oh My!
657. Science: A Buggy Business
658. Special Needs Classroom Needs Supplies!!
659. Earth Day Excitement
660. We're All About Those Bugs
661. Shearn Garden Bugs
662. Celebrating Earth Day By Keeping Our Rivers Clean!
663. Developmentally Appropriate Materials for Young Minds
664. STEM for Future Inventors!
665. We Need More Frog and Turtle Nonfiction Science Books
666. Metamorphosis in the Classroom
667. Little Hands, Big Dreams
668. Hands-On Science!
669. Today’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Environmentalists
670. Fun Science Stations!
671. Robots and Music?!! The future is here now!
672. Rendering the Ecoregions of Texas
673. Science Lab Revamp
674. Calling All Citizen Scientists! Ornithology is Elementary
675. Grasping Math Concepts Through Literature
676. Micro:Bits for Macro:Creativity
677. There Is No PLANet B
678. STEM and Social Studies: Building Aqueducts Like the Romans
679. Spheros for STEAM
680. Makerspaces Making a Difference!
681. Picture Perfect Garden
682. Animal Kingdom for Kindergarten!
683. Motivating All Thinkers in Engaging Math Instruction
684. Rocks Rock!
685. Creating Marvelous Mathematicians
686. Exploring Heat
687. Math Manipulatives Matter
688. Young Minds of Tomorrow
689. What's In Our Water?
690. We Say No to Single Use Plastics!
691. STEM Ahead With OSMO
692. High School Students Taking College Algebra Classes
693. Everyone Needs Math!
694. Full S.T.E.A.M Ahead with Hands-on Learning!
695. Full STEAM Ahead: Our 1st Maker’s Space
696. Science Exploration for Low-Income Preschoolers
697. Don't Be a Once-ler, Learn From the Lorax!
698. A New View in Biology
699. What Did You Eat???
700. Magna-ficent Class Needs Magna-Tiles!
701. Learning About Healthy Food and How Plants Grow Through Science!
702. Project STEMspace
703. You've Got to See It to Believe It!
704. Writing Codes for our Future
705. Robohana's Tool Cabinet - The Bits and Bolts
706. Fertile a Ground for Learning.
707. Help Us Recycle in a Recycling Desert
708. Kindergarteners, The Future of Our Environment
709. Season's Reading! Learning About The Four Seasons
710. Measuring Science With Real Tools!
711. STEM and Ozobot Robotics
712. STEM for Kindergarten
713. Math Supplies for Active Engagement
714. STEM! All Day Every Day!
715. Basic Essentials
716. Exploring the World Around Us by Digital Microscope
717. Oh, Snap! Let's Learn About Circuits!
718. Locating the Hidden Figures in My Classroom!
719. STEM Books for Emergent Readers
720. Motion, Friction, Cause and Effect
721. Our MakerSpace Needs Some Materials & Tools - Part 1
722. Future Engineers
723. Hand Sewing Quilts in Our Middle School Math Class
724. Making Mathematicians
725. STEMtastic Computer Engineering Club
726. Calculators for Successful Students!
727. Creativity and Critical Thinking Through Engineering!
728. GEMS Pollinator Garden
729. Prevention is Better than Cure!
730, Energy: Will We Run Out? What Is Our Alternative?
731. Bubble Engineering Kit for Science Class
732. Grow, baby, GROW!
733. Investigating Cellular Energy
734. Super Science
735. Don't Drop Me!
736. Little Scientists Want to Know the Truth
737. ChemLabs in Chem Class
738. Smart Math for Smart Kids
739. Going Green With Garden Gold
740. Robotics and Beyond
741. Sand-Sational Learning
742. Pondering about STEM in Spring
743. The Picture Patch
744. Making Math Magical
745. Conserve, Protect, and Restore TSE
746. Early Math Counts
747. Making Sense of Number Sense
748. STEAM Builders!
749. STEM Starts Early!
750. Just Code It: Robots and Rockets & Droids, Oh My!
MORE INFORMATION ON DONORSCHOOSE.ORG:
When projects are not fully funded by their expiration date, donors are contacted by DonorsChoose.org and asked to redirect their donations to another project. Occasionally, a fully funded project is called off for some reason internal to the school/teacher, and funding is returned. We have no way of knowing why, but DonorsChoose.org handles those donations in the same way as for expired projects.
How is economic need defined at DonorsChoose.org?
Poverty level refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free and reduced fee lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need.
To be deemed eligible for free lunch, a student's family income must be within 130% of the poverty line (a max of $29,055 for a family of four). For reduced fee lunch, the family income must be within 185% of the poverty level (a max of $41,348 for a family of four).
Projects on DonorsChoose.org will denote the approximate percentage of students at the school that qualify for free and reduced free lunch:
- More than half of students from low-income households: 55-75%
- More than three-quarters of students from low-income households: 76-89%
- Nearly all students from low-income households: 90%+
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About DonorsChoose.org
We are in no way affiliated with DonorsChoose.org or with any of the classroom projects presented for funding, except as specifically indicated (for example, when a kossack is the teacher). The Inoculation Project is a group of Daily Kos community members who do this as volunteers; our efforts are not directed or endorsed by Daily Kos or Kos Media LLC.