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Mrs. Tracy from Wilmington DE is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

STEM Books 4 Little Free Library Part II

Help me give my students inspiring STEM books for our Little Free Library!

  • $288 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach at an innovative and award-winning, K-12th, dual-language, public charter school in Delaware with a diverse school student population. Fifty percent of our students are minorities and low-income. All of our students study the Greek language and global studies. Our Title I school is located on the outskirts of Wilmington. I truly love working at a diverse school with a focus on global citizenship!

I teach food studies, African-American history, Advanced Placement human geography, and US history to tenth to twelfth-grade students.

I am also the K-12th grade garden coordinator, advisor of Girls Grow Greens club, and one of the leaders of the Green Team on campus.

Our school is one of only a few schools in Delaware and in the country to receive the eco-schools USA Green Flag award for excellence in environmental action and learning. Recently, our school was honored to be selected as a 2020 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School!

Our Green Team has worked incredibly hard to implement several major projects to educate our students about how to be environmental stewards of the planet. For example, we now have a school vegetable garden with thirty-four raised beds, chickens, and goats!

My Project

Inspired by the Donors Choose project titled "If We Build Up Girls, Then We All Become STEMinists," students in the "Girls Grow Greens" club will watch videos featuring scientists Rhonda Hamm and Bridget Coughlin (long profiles) to learn about pioneering women in STEM! Next, as part of a service-learning project on campus, our students will assemble our newly acquired Little Free Library. Next, students will add picture books featuring notable female STEM scientists. The students in "Girls Grow Greens" will also record a few of them reading the picture books to promote the new "Little Free Library." A Little Free Library is a "take a book, return a book" free book exchange. Anyone can take a book or bring a book to share. This project will positively impact 2,000+ students by helping us build community, inspire readers, and expand book access. The more books in or near the home, the more likely a child will learn and love to read. our empty Little Free Library needs books!

Mrs. Tracy
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Women in STEM: Women Who Changed Science and the World Pioneers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
June Almeida, Virus Detective!: The Woman Who Discovered the First Human Coronavirus • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps • Amazon Business $15.63 1 $15.63
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest • Amazon Business $15.42 1 $15.42
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 • Amazon Business $14.31 1 $14.31
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist (Women in Science Biographies, Fossil Books for Kids, Feminist Picture Books, Dinosaur Gifts for Kids) • Amazon Business $13.70 1 $13.70
Mary Anning's Curiosity • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Paleontologists: With Stem Projects for Kids • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95

Materials cost

$211.62

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$244.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.20

Total project goal

$287.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$287.99

5 Donors

-$183.76

Donations toward project cost

-$166.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.06

match offer

-$91.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$78.09

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.78

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.36

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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