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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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Library Lift-Off! Second Mission

Help me give my students a STEAM-based collection of read-aloud books to enhance our design and engineering challenges.

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My Students

My small school is set in 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 grappling with parents being deployed.

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, and tailor the activities for all grade levels, transitional kindergarten through grade five!

Our STEAM Lab and Makerspace have gone through many changes over the years, and we are keeping in step with new thinking and methodology by focusing on the three-dimensional design of the Next Generation Science Standards. We also make a concerted effort to incorporate exposure to technology, engineering, art, and mathematical applications, and make it relevant to their world and interests. The curriculum is student-driven and ever-morphing to meet their needs. As the TK-5th STEAM Lab teacher, I feel I have the best job ever!

My Project

This project is so simple, but so important! Students of all ages love the power of picture books.

Power up our STEAM library with these mind-igniting books!

Spark creativity, inventiveness, and grow passion for learning through the read-aloud process that often kicks off our series of lessons and activities in our lab setting.

Help us to enrich our Next Generation Science Standards-based classroom with inspiring books about important scientists, especially women such as Jane Goodall and Temple Grandin. Arouse a passion for conservation and creative thinking with engaging stories and examples. These books will help strengthen our engineering and technology NGSS work.

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

430 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fly With Me: A Celebration of Birds through Pictures, Poems, and Stories • Amazon Business $19.39 1 $19.39
How to Become an Accidental Genius • Amazon Business $16.63 1 $16.63
How to Code a Rollercoaster • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact (National Geographic Kids) • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
Papa's Mechanical Fish • Amazon Business $14.19 1 $14.19
What If... • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter • Amazon Business $13.98 1 $13.98
Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland into a Home • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Ron's Big Mission • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
Izzy Gizmo • Amazon Business $13.33 1 $13.33
The Future Architect's Handbook • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Karl's New Beak: 3-D Printing Builds a Bird a Better Life (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books with 4D) • Amazon Business $12.33 1 $12.33
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
I Wanna New Room • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Counting Birds: The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends (Young Naturalist) • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
Gary and the Great Inventors: It's Laundry Day! • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Perfect Square • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Nathan's Autism Spectrum Superpowers (One Three Nine Inspired) • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Born Just Right (Jeter Publishing) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Made by Maxine • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions • Amazon Business $10.90 1 $10.90
How to Code a Sandcastle • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
How to Keep an Owl Dry in the Rain • Amazon Business $7.80 1 $7.80
How a House Is Built • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World • Amazon Business $7.07 1 $7.07

Materials cost

$344.87

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.78

Sales tax

 $31.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$419.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.01

Total project goal

$493.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $493.39

4 Donors

-$242.89

Donations toward project cost

-$234.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.40

Matching donations from our partners

-$217.52

Match offers toward project cost

-$184.89

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.63

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$32.98

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