(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Inoculation Project 2/5/2023: Music and Books in Atlanta, Plant Pigments in Mobile [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-05 For February, DonorsChoose has created a special project designation to help people who wish to direct their donations in observance of Black History Month. You’ll see the text below in a box near the top of projects with this designation, including both our projects today. There is a search available if you’d like to locate more such projects. Celebrating Black History Month This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black. Ms. Jones is an elementary school music teacher in Atlanta. She uses music tied to books when she can, to encourage kids to read. This year, she hopes each student can get their own copy of a lovely little Sendak picture book whose song she’ll teach. PROJECT #1 Project: Music + Reading= Fun! Resources: Help me give my students the awesome, amazing gift of reading with music! Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. A “Celebrating Black History Month” project. Location: Barack Obama Elementary Magnet School, Atlanta, Georgia Total: $959.88 Still Needed: $ 269.53 $244.53 Project description by Ms. Vickie A Jones: There’s something great about curling up with a good book in winter; add music and a little “chicken soup”, and you have an amazing combination! I love to share the song Chicken Soup with Rice, based on the book by Maurice Sendak, with my students, especially in January. We usually have to share a few books from the local and school libraries or just read the words on the interactive board. This year, I want each student to have their own copy! The pandemic has put an unfortunate delay on the reading skills of so many students. I love to incorporate reading in my music class and especially this year, I want to work to improve my students’ reading skills. Help me give the joy of reading with music to my scholars. We know that music + reading = fun! DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Carole King wrote the music for the Chicken Soup with Rice song, for a 1975 Sendak-based animated musical called Really Rosie. x x YouTube Video The book Chicken Soup with Rice, obviously about months, was published in a small format with three other Sendak books as the Nutshell Library: an alphabet book, Alligators All Around; a counting book, One Was Johnny; and this “cautionary tale”, Pierre, about a very obstinate boy. (Song is also from Really Rosie.) x x YouTube Video We’ve made a lot of progress with project #2 over the last few weeks. Last Sunday, Eastern Bluebird let us know that this WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, Donors Choose will have a MATCHING offer for Black History month that includes this project (as well as our main project, above, but I am less concerned about moving that one along!) If you can make a donation on that date, even if you hold one you intended for today, we can take advantage of these funds to get this project closer to its goal. (Let us know in the comments if that is your plan!) Ms. Delchamps teaches high school biology in Mobile, Alabama, and she wants her students to be able to do a fascinating project to understand what pigments plants use to go about their business of photosynthesis. They’ll need, among other things, this snazzy little spectrophotometer. PROJECT #2 Project: Pigments and Wavelengths of Light Resources: Help me give my students a fun, educational lab experience where we can actually see the wavelengths of light absorbed and reflected by plants. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; more than half of students from low‑income households. A “Celebrating Black History Month” project. Location: Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama Total: $1,105.96 Still Needed: $ 520.44 $495.44 Project description by Ms. Delchamps: This project focuses on preparing plant extract to see and measure the wavelengths of light absorbed by the plant pigments. They also understand why we see pigments in certain colors. The first step in photosynthesis is absorbance of light for the energy source, and this experiment lets students see first hand how the light-dependent reaction works. They are then able to demonstrate by graphing the different wavelengths of light absorbed and reflected. Students love to see how science actually works in the world around them. This lab is one of my favorites! DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Professor Dave explains the different plant pigments involved in photosynthesis. x x YouTube Video The California Academy of Sciences takes us on a trip inside a leaf, to see what happens there. If you turn on closed-captioning, there are subtitles that explain the various things encountered, or you can leave the captions off and just enjoy a mildly psychedelic voyage. x x YouTube Video Our main project from last week was completed, thanks to our readers and other donors. Project #1, Center Supplies for Library Learners: Mrs. Graham is the librarian in a South Carolina elementary school. She wanted to expand the building and creative supplies available to her students, including sets of colored pencils with a wide variety of skin tones. She writes: Thank you so much for supporting this project and public education. My students will be thrilled to have these materials in the library. New colored pencils, paper, and building materials will encourage students’ creativity and collaboration. My students deserve the opportunity to express themselves and the materials from this project will make that wish a reality. 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 combats the anti-science, anti-education push in conservative America by funding science, math, and literacy projects in red-state 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 1014! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/5/2151122/-The-Inoculation-Project-2-5-2023-Music-and-Books-in-Atlanta-Plant-Pigments-in-Mobile Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/