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Eureka! Books on Inventions for School Library

My students need 15 books about famous inventions and guns, including "Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor" and "The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle".

  • $461 goal

This project expired on July 23, 2010.

This project expired on July 23, 2010.

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Mrs. Arrants Madrid Junior Senior High School
Madrid, IA Grades 6-8

I am a librarian for a rural district, and I teach library skills to students from K-12. We are a small community with high-achieving students, but with limited resources.

For the past two years, I have had dozens of students researching assignments and projects based on inventions or an inventor. Some of these are History Day projects, some are research projects, and some are projects where they get to choose their own topic, and have chosen a topic that is an important invention. The books in our small school library are both limited and aging, and many topics that students choose or have assigned to them are just plain not available in the library most readily available to them.

I need some books on inventions. I have chosen some books on inventions in general, which include information on a wide variety of inventions, from the toothbrush to the television, and I have also chosen some books that seem to be popular topics, such as weapons used throughout history, penicillin, and cell phones. These resources would enable my students to find print sources on their topic, rather than relying solely on the Internet. They would also feel less frustration through the research process by finding sources at their fingertips, instead of looking at regional libraries, which is not possible for every student.

Your help will ensure that my students will be able to complete superb research projects in a successful manner. Because these books will be in a school library, they will not only benefit the current students, but many students, for years to come. Students will realize that the Internet is not the only place to find information, and that the school library is an important place in the school environment.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
National Geographic Concise History of Science and Invention: An Illustrated Time Line National Geographic • Barnes and Noble $32.00 1 $32.00
The Telephone Patricia K. Kummer • Barnes and Noble $27.45 1 $27.45
New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B. C. to the 21st Century Diagram Group • Barnes and Noble $19.96 1 $19.96
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $32.00 1 $32.00
Popular Patents: America's First Inventions from the Airplane to the Zipper Travis Brown • Barnes and Noble $23.35 1 $23.35
The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 Tales of Invention and Discovery to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy Rick Beyer • Barnes and Noble $15.99 1 $15.99
Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Surprising Stories about Inventions Don L. Wulffson • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
An Uncommon History of Common Things John Thompson, Henry Petroski, Bethanne Patrick • Barnes and Noble $32.00 1 $32.00
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We Couldn't Live Without Allyn Freeman, Bob Golden • Barnes and Noble $40.45 1 $40.45
The Book of Invention Thomas J. Craughwell • Barnes and Noble $11.68 1 $11.68
The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution Michael R. Peres, Mark Osterman, Grant B. Romer • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95
Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts ... John Timbs • Barnes and Noble $27.80 1 $27.80
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle Eric Lax • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Great Book of Guns: An Illustrated History of Military, Sporting, and Antique Firearms Chris McNab • Barnes and Noble $19.98 1 $19.98
The Gun: A Visual History DK Publishing, Designed by Tim Lane, Designed by Philip Fitzgerald • Barnes and Noble $17.60 1 $17.60

Materials cost

$346.10

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.31

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$377.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.89

Total project goal

$460.48

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