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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! With STEAM Power

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

  • $411 goal

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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 20donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner • Amazon Business $17.69 1 $17.69
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.87 1 $14.87
11 Experiments That Failed • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Eye to Eye: How Animals See The World • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Cool Architecture: Filled with Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages (Cool Kids) • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
Look at That Building!: A First Book of Structures (Exploring Our Community) • Amazon Business $12.82 1 $12.82
Calling All Minds: How To Think and Create Like an Inventor • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
I Can't Do That, YET: Growth Mindset • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Twinderella, A Fractioned Fairy Tale • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
If I Built a School • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
The Book of Mistakes • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
Roberto, The Insect Architect • Amazon Business $10.57 1 $10.57
Not a Box • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Not a Stick • Amazon Business $9.14 1 $9.14
Amazing Visual Math • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
See You in the Cosmos • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What's the Matter with the Three Little Pigs?: The Fairy-Tale Physics of Matter (STEM-Twisted Fairy Tales) • Amazon Business $7.02 1 $7.02
If I Built a Car • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
If I Built a House • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$284.51

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $26.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$348.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.55

Total project goal

$410.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $410.35

16 Donors

-$317.00

Donations toward project cost

-$269.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.25

match offer

-$93.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$79.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.35

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 $0.00

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