Culturally Relevant Science Classroom Library to Develop a Growth Mindset
Help me give my students culturally relevant choices for their science reading assignments, and develop a growth mindset.
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My students are inquisitive, creative, and enjoy learning in an active way. In fact, whenever given the opportunity to experiment, explore, or research new concepts, they are very receptive and happy to learn something first hand, rather than listen to it.
My students prefer learning whenever they can see a direct link between what they are exploring in class and its applications to real-life problems or situations.
My teaching is very student-centered, and students do all of the work and most of the explaining; this allows them to take charge of their learning, and involves them deeply in the lessons. Whether we perform a lab or they are asked to complete a project, my students love to be given choices and to feel like their interests and opinions matter. As a result, I would like to use this platform to help my students obtain resources that they would otherwise not receive.
My Project
Over the last few years you have helped me create a very broad science classroom library. Students can check out books dealing with philosophy of science, autobiographies, evolutionary biology, genetics, bioengineering, zoology and ecology. However, only a few of the books I have to offer deal with the struggles that scientists face on a daily basis when conducting research, nor their personal challenges as human beings. Students often think scientists and engineers are these special, super-smart individuals who have nothing in common with them. However, scientists come from different backgrounds and life experiences, but their growth mindset is what sets them apart from other people.
Regardless of whether my students are economically disadvantaged, part of the LGBTQ community, part of any minority, or just curious about other people's struggles, I want to provide them with resources to broaden their understanding of who scientists are and show them that anybody can be a scientist, if that is what they want to be.
Additionally, I want to focus this year's project also on culturally relevant unethical scientific endeavors that have targeted minorities in the past, because knowing and understanding the past is essential to building a better future for all.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
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The Life of Dr. Charles Drew: Blood Bank Innovator (Legendary African Americans)
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
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Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
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Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
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Magnificent Minds: Inspiring Women In Science
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Magnificent Minds: Inspiring Women In Science
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Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
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Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
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Sciencia: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy for All (Wooden Books)
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
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How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Materials cost
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Vendor shipping charges
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Sales tax
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3rd party payment processing fee
$11.46
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$809.74
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$142.90
Total project goal
$952.64
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$952.64
7 Donors
-$476.32
Donations toward project cost
-$404.87
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$71.45
match offer
-$476.32
Match offer toward project cost
-$404.87
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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