The Beauty Within

From reading ricedaddies.com, I learned about “DonorsChoose.org”, a website where teachers write individual proposals, including a summary of how the money they receive is being spent, how much they’ll need to fulfill their goal, as well as the background of the students and how the donations will further help the students’ education.

I decided to look for ones in the math and science category, since I personally felt that my science education from K-7th grade was extremely lacking. Teachers were never able to answer the questions of WHY, all they do is tell you to draw this or read some paragraph out loud as a class. That never helped me learn or even understand what they were trying to teach. The thing is, my elementary school and middle school wasn’t exactly poorly funded (at the time when I went at least), and the teachers had resources to obtain pretty nifty things. If not, they ask the students to bring things from home because the school was in a pretty decent area (no where near Beverly Hills or Malibu or Pacific Palisades or San Marino, but not bad either). I guess that want and need to understand more than what my teachers taught got me into science. I wanted to find out why things worked the way it did, so.. my own curiosity was peaked.

This one proposal titled “It Worked For Albert Einstein…” is asking for simple and inexpensive resources that will help the teacher peak the students’ curiosity.  She’s asking for $673 to purchase magnetic compasses, gears, microscopes, slides, ant farm, and root-vue farm.  That’s not much compare to other proposals I looked at, in which one asked for $600 to purchase 200 lab notebooks.  I know I know.. only $3 for a notebook?  But come on, you can get a 1 subject spiral notebook at Target for 25 cents at the beginning of the school year.  That’s what… $50????  I’ve been in multiple lab classes and it doesn’t take much more than a 25 cent spiral notebook to write down your notes.  If you are doing ongoing research for over a year, and you need to constantly give a copy of your notes to your supervisor, then sure.. a $3 lab notebook with carbon copy helps.

Anyhow… I just donated $50, but that’s only 7% of the entire proposal.  Please please please help!  Plus, this school is in  my old neighborhood (when my family first moved here from Taiwan), and schools there definitely need help.  Click on the link below and donate!  NOW!!!  YAY!!

Help Public School Kids by Funding my Registry at DonorsChoose