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Mrs. Chapluk from Yorba Linda, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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These Shining Lives: America's Glowing Girls Fight for Justice

Help me give my students a full class set of this fantastic book about the history of radium's use in the USA, healthcare, America's glowing girls, and their fight for justice.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Chapluk's classroom raised $181

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My Students

Hippocrates wrote, “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” Help inspire the future doctors, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and first responders in our classroom.

My students are a diverse group of motivated middle schoolers all eager to get a jump-start on a future healthcare profession.

Through this class, I hope to empower these future health professionals to become leaders in the global health community through education, collaboration, and experience. Our purpose is to develop leadership and technical skills through project-based learning and community service projects.

My Project

As my future healthcare professionals learn the skills needed for these careers, I want them also to learn some history of biomedicine. This New York Times and USA Today bestseller young reader’s version of “The Radium Girls” is the perfect book for us to read together as a class. It tells historical account of the radium dial painters of the early 20th century and the illness they suffered from a then-misunderstood deadly element, Radium. “Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spent their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky - until they started suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal. The Radium Girls: Young Readers Edition tells the unbelievable true story of these incredible women, whose determination to fight back saved countless lives.”

In reading and discussing this book, I hope that it will inspire my seventh and eighth graders even more toward careers in healthcare where they, too, have the opportunity to save lives through preventive medicine or even biomedical research that is necessary to prevent repeating history.

This grant will allow us to purchase the remaining books needed for an entire class set that we could read throughout the course of the year and conduct literary circles to dive deep into this historical account.

Mrs. Chapluk Travis Ranch School Grades 6-8 Yorba Linda, CA View local requests 36 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark • Amazon Business $8.59 10 $85.90
The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark • Amazon Business $8.59 3 $25.77

Materials cost

$111.67

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Sales tax

 $10.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$153.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.10

Total project goal

$180.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $180.67

2 Donors

-$60.22

Donations toward project cost

-$51.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.03

match offer

-$120.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.07

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