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Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab from San Diego, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Eureka! Grow Science Thinking Through Picture Books

Help me give my students access to rich NGSS-based lessons and activities based on children's picture books.

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My Students

My students come from a wide variety of learning situations, from struggling to striving. The school is set within a suburban community near military housing. Even though my school is within a large metropolitan city, it feels like a small community and sheltered, an "island in the hills." Within these hills, we have a variety of ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as several families that have moved here from other countries. Many of our students are also grappling with parents being deployed or on active duty.

Project-based, STEAM exploration is engaging and motivating to all my students, and a tool to building growth-mindset, regardless of their academic level.

My students are exuberant and creative, and I am constantly challenged to investigate new opportunities for them to test the waters in STEM/STEAM learning for all grade levels TK-5th grade. We also make a concerted effort to incorporate NGSS standards, and make it relevant to the students' world and interests. The curriculum is student-driven and ever-morphing to meet their needs in a problem-based learning environment.

My Project

I would like to incorporate science lessons based on picture books into my classroom. This lessons included in the Eureka! teacher books work well for both on-site and online learning, and incorporate NGSS standards.

Picture books help to pique student engagement and prepare us to dive into explorations, whether in science or engineering.

They help connect the students to their learning and experiences and provide another layer to their understanding, especially with concepts that are more difficult to recreate in the classroom.

In order to incorporate picture books into my lessons, I need to start gathering a full library of STEM-focused books as well as the teacher instruction books. The books in this project will add to my current collection so that I can rotate lessons in a way that they won't be repeated and will build on each other.

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab Vista Grande Elementary School Grades 3-5

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More than a third of 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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Eureka, Again! K–2 Science Activities and Stories: Print and Digital Books • National Science Teaching Association $56.64 1 $56.64
Eureka! Grade 3–5 Science Activities and Stories • National Science Teaching Association $56.64 1 $56.64
Foldscope Deluxe Individual Kit • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
The Blue Whale • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
A Passion for Elephants: The Real Life Adventure of Field Scientist Cynthia Moss • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
A Walk in the Rain with a Brain • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Annie Jump Cannon, Astronomer • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84
Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection) • Amazon Business $15.57 1 $15.57
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Brooklyn Bridge: The story of the world's most famous bridge and the remarkable family that built it. (Wonders of the World Book) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
The Secret Subway • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Monarch and Milkweed • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science • Amazon Business $13.75 1 $13.75
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself) • Amazon Business $13.20 1 $13.20
Solar Story: How One Community Lives Alongside the World's Biggest Solar Plant • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Wolves Are Back • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
I am Jane Goodall (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines • Amazon Business $10.93 1 $10.93
Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be • Amazon Business $10.37 1 $10.37
Young Thomas Edison • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Fossil Girl • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau (Jacques Cousteau Book for Kids, Children's Ocean Book, Underwater Picture Book for Kids) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Newton and Me (Arbordale Collection) • Amazon Business $9.78 1 $9.78
Have You Seen Mary? • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Tornadoes! (New Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Weather Forecasting • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
It's Raining! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Me and My Place in Space • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder (Weather Books for Kids, Winter Children's Books, Science Kids Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Weather (Smithsonian-science) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
To the Stars!: The First American Woman to Walk in Space • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Living Color • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder (Images of Conservationists) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Birds: Nature's Magnificent Flying Machines • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Seven Blind Mice (Reading Railroad) • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
On the Wing • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Story of Jane Goodall: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Noa The Little Scientist (Girls in Science Collection) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Whose Teeth Are These? (Whose? Animal Series) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Chirping Crickets (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
How Do Birds Find Their Way? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed their World • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71

Materials cost

$727.50

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.06

Sales tax

 $66.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$844.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.95

Total project goal

$992.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $992.99

1 Donor

-$496.49

Donations toward project cost

-$422.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.47

match offer

-$496.49

Match offer toward project cost

-$422.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.47

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