When I was in school, my science teachers had the materials they needed for hands-on teaching.
Since my kids have been in school, there has never been a year where parents were not asked to provide the most basic school supplies — even paper and pencils.
Materials for science experiments have become a luxury item — and so has hands-on learning.
All our kids deserve better, so I AM A DONOR.
donorschoose.org/sciencebloggers
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If you’re a grown-up who’s into science, chances are that some teacher or mentor-like person in your childhood did something to spark your interest, to expose you to cool experiments or patterns of scientific reasoning. Maybe it was a trip to see dinosaur skeletons at the natural history museum, or that baking soda and vinegar volcano, or the year your class grew fruit flies or silkworms. Maybe it was learning something unexpected about clouds, or about the digestive system. Maybe it was looking through a telescope for the first time, or discovering what the math you had learned was good for.
Kids today will have a better chance at having that kind of “a ha!” moment if their teachers have the materials and funds to make those moments happen.
If you can spare a little money, you can help make that happen. And, in the process, you can tell the current generation of school kids that their educational experiences matter to you. After all, these kids are going to be the scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, voters, parents, and decision-makers of the future. What they know about science — and how they feel about science — will affect us all.
If you’ve already donated through Science Bloggers for Students, tell the world why you are a donor. Post a photo on your own blog (please drop a link in the comments), or email me a photo and I’ll share it for you. I’m guessing there are even more reasons to be a donor than there are donors … so far. (As I type this, the leaderboard shows 286 donors to the drive. By Saturday, can we bring that up to 500?)
And remember, if you donate through my giving page by the end of the drive (midnight October 22), you get to assign me a topic for a blog post!
