I can't think of anything better than a student with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. This is for a tenth grade Biology class.
Two days before proposing this project I had six students come up to me in a group and ask if I had any books that they could read about what we were learning. I just about cried. We are studying evolution right now, and seeing these students getting so excited about it was a fantastic sight. Sadly, there is a very sparse science section in our library, especially when it comes to popular science books.
I would like to build a library of popular science books that my students could check out and read on their own. I have tried to choose a wide range that will span from the technical to the easily digestible. This will allow students of all levels to delve deeper into the subjects we are learning. Authors like Alan Lightman and Richard Dawkins have inspired, informed and entertained scientists and future scientists for years. I'm hoping that my students will fall in love with reading popular science so that, even if they do not choose to go into the sciences, they still pursue their knowledge of science through recreational reading.
Very rarely are students exposed to science literature in the high school classroom. I didn't start reading it until college and that was on my own accord, not the school's. Your help will make it possible for my students to build a passion for reading about science and just might inspire a young person to go into the sciences and write a book of their own.
Dance for Two: Essays Alan Lightman
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A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
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$13.59
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$13.59
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man Amir D. Aczel
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$5.98
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$5.98
Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
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$15.96
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$15.96
Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA Kevin Davies
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$22.50
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$22.50
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dennett (Afterword)
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science Natalie Angier
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$12.76
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan
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$10.40
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$10.40
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives David Eagleman
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$10.40
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$10.40
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
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$14.36
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$14.36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
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$16.90
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$16.90
What Evolution Is Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond, Foreword by Jared Diamond
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$15.25
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Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension Stephen S. Hall
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$3.98
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine Francis S. Collins
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$21.59
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$21.59
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher Lewis Thomas, Lewis R. Thomas
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$12.00
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$12.00
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion Alan Burdick
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$4.48
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$4.48
My Life with the Chimpanzees Jane Goodall
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$6.29
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$6.29
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Lewis Thomas
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$11.20
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$11.20
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin Randal Keynes
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species Sean B. Carroll
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The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science R. Douglas Fields Ph.D.
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Why Evolution Is True Jerry A. Coyne
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins
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$24.00
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery Richard Hollingham
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$22.39
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$22.39
Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit Alan P. Lightman
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$12.55
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$12.55
Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation Michael Keller, Nicolle Rager Fuller (Illustrator)
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Einstein's Dreams Alan P. Lightman
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Materials cost
$393.08
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$28.50
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.90
Fulfillment labor & materials
$9.00
Total project cost
$436.48
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$95.81
Total project goal
$532.29
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Total project goal
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2 Donors
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Donations toward project cost
-$436.48
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