(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Inoculation Project 4/23/2023: Cleveland STEM, Arkansas books [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: 2023-04-23 This Ohio teacher needs some materials to help her first graders with reading and with STEM skills. (A “cvc word” is one made up of a consonant-vowel-consonant, such as “cat” — easy ones for beginning readers to get a grip on.) PROJECT #1 Project: Stem Activities for Hands-on Learning Resources: Help me give my students hands-on stem activities for small groups to help enhance their learning. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Cleveland, Ohio Total: $165.13 Still Needed: $ 140.13 $65.13 Project description by Ms. Halsey: In my cart I have all hands-on stem activities to help students work independently during small groups. With your help students will be able to use their stem skills- math, reading, problem solving and more to work independently. Students will be using all the different activities in their groups to help them learn through exploration and their everyday skills. For the learning activities, students will be using the picture cards to help build the cvc words and sounding out the beginning sounds to find the beginning letter. Students can also use the magnetic letters for small group with me to spell out sight words, cvc words or our unit words. For our stem activities students will be using the blocks, disks and magnets to explore more into science in a fun and engaging way. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! These little clips from the distributor show a couple of the STEM toys being requested. x x YouTube Video x x YouTube Video This Arkansas high school teacher wants to give her students books that can help them see themselves as well as others different from themselves. PROJECT #2 Project: New Books for the Classroom Library Resources: Help me give my students some exciting new books to update our classroom library. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Nettleton Junior High School, Jonesboro, Arkansas Total: $461.59 Still Needed: $ 211.59 $136.59 Project description by Mrs. Hicks: Empathy can be taught through literature and the world today needs more empathy. Adding these new books to my classroom library will give my students the opportunity to increase their empathy toward others. Preparing my students to be productive citizens who care about all who live in their world means providing them with literature that will help them become more open-minded and accepting individuals. My students should be able to see themselves in the books they read so that they can make connections to the literature. I have a wonderful group of students from many cultures. I want a classroom library that represents who they are. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Author Lisa Moore Ramee speaks about her book A Good Kind of Trouble, one of those requested. x x YouTube Video Another requested book is the 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. This reading of a segment by Lucian Msamati appeared on the BBC in honor of the book’s 60th anniversary. x x YouTube Video Last week we had three projects going, because the first one was so near completion but not quite there yet. But in the end, all three were completed this week, thanks in large part to our readers! Project #1, Hands On Learning Is Fun: Mrs. Goodwin’s Arkansas early-elementary students needed some new games and resources for “center time”, so they could learn more about interacting with one another as they also learned other subjects. She writes: I cannot say thank you enough for being willing to help the kiddos in my classroom! I am so thankful for the opportunity to watch my students learn and grow. These materials will help me engage them during many different instructional lessons. Again, we appreciate you so much for helping us learn! Project #2, Robots at Work: Mrs. Payne’s Missouri elementary students were about to learn about solar power, and she hoped they could build some solar-powered robots as part of that. She writes: Thank you so much for your contribution to Robots at Work. I am so eager to get the robots in and get my students engaged. I look forward to many wonderful opportunities that my students will have thanks to wonderful contributors like you. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Thanks for making sure that all students are given the unique experiences in the classroom to become lifelong learners. Project #3, Fish Tank Replacement Parts: Mr. Rickard has a small aquarium for his Florida high school students, but it needed replacement parts to continue keeping the fish alive. He writes: I am continued to be humbled by the generosity that is shown to teachers through this website. With your help, we will be able to continue with our class fish tank. Thank you for your continued support of our classroom. We can't wait to share pictures with you of our new items. 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 1030! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/23/2165397/-The-Inoculation-Project-4-23-2023-Cleveland-STEM-Arkansas-books 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/