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Mr. Reynes from Castro Valley, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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CV Science: One Science Night, a Lifetime of Inquiry

My students need 4 microscopes.

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Mr. Reynes Castro Valley Elementary School
Castro Valley, CA Grades 3-5

My Students

Do you remember the first time you looked through a microscope? I had to wait until high school biology. I want more for my students. If I am going to close the achievement gap in my schools and district, I must work to close the experience gap. Every child deserves to be inspired.

Each day I arrive at a different school with a hand truck loaded with science materials.

I am a science specialist, and I strive to make science real for approximately 650 fourth and fifth grade students at five schools each week. (Picture: view from inside a hot air balloon that I built to teach convection) For the past six years, I have been working to close the achievement gap in elementary science. Although I have yet to accomplished my goal, I have worked to boost achievement, and in the process I have earned some very prestigious honors: 2007 California Teacher of the Year and 2008 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. My students are joyful, curious, and quite frankly, the reason for my accolades. They inspire me to do all I can to make learning rigorous, hands-on, and fun. I am seeking four microscopes to create an activity station for a traveling science discovery museum that I have been developing and presenting for the past fifteen years.

My Project

My students need to experience science with their families. I am requesting four microscopes to add a life science exhibit to an existing science night program. Each science night fills a multipurpose room with nearly fifty hands-on activities and a variety of activity stations with one goal in mind: bringing families to the school to experience the joy of discovery. Children glide across the floor on a home-made hovercraft, make recycled paper, balance a ball on a column of air, and test their structures on an earthquake shake table. Science Night teaches more than science; it shows how much we care about our students and their families. At one science night, a first grader was fascinated with the "World's Simplest Motor" exhibit. That weekend, he drew a picture of the motor for his grandfather. The two of them did some research and built their own version. His family was puzzled. They couldn't figure out how he could know how to build an electric motor. After some probing questions, they realized that he learned how at Science Night. Microscopes will add a life science component to a museum that is dominated by physical science.

Supporting this project will add a key activity to an already successful Science Night program that reaches hundreds of families each year.

The microscopes will also become a resource for teachers in my district. Most importantly, a child may examine some granitic sand or an elodea leaf and shout, "Look, Mommy." And in that moment of discovery and attention, she realizes that she is a scientist.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

999 students impacted 11 donors
Mr. Reynes Castro Valley Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Castro Valley, CA View local requests

More than half 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

999 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MICROSCOPE BROCK MAGISCOPE • Frey Scientific, Inc. $131.95 4 $527.80

Materials cost

$527.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $63.34

Sales tax

 $38.27

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$646.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.88

Total project goal

$788.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $788.21

10 Donors

-$689.43

Donations toward project cost

-$646.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$98.78

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