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Mr. Jones from San Francisco CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Hidden Worlds- Up Close and Personal

A video microscope to bring the microscopic world alive for my students.

  • $760 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Dear Donor, I am an 11th grade advanced Biology Teacher at City Arts and Technology High school in the Ingleside district of San Francisco. My school is a start up school and does not have many basic lab supplies. In fact I only have one microscope available for all my students to use. During the 2006-2007 school year my class did dozens of labs ranging from testing alcohol's affect on fruit flies to genetically modifying bacteria with a jellyfish gene that caused the bacteria to glow green when exposed to UV light. Despite these exciting labs the one area I was not able to give my students exposure to seeing organisms under a microscope since I do not have the microscopes available. Having a videoflex scope would allow me to project an image under my microscope to the whole class thus accomplishing a major goal of mine. I remember so fondly my labs in high school and college where I was able to see the invisible and I look forward to sharing similar experiences with my students. I thank you for your time and consideration and sincerely hope you can help make my classroom more effective by taking a single microscope and turning it into a class wide tool for learning.

Mr. Jones
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Video Presentation Cameras • Highsmith Inc. $506.00 1 $506.00

Materials cost

$506.00

Vendor shipping charges

$50.60

Sales tax

$36.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$623.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$136.76

Total project goal

$759.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$759.76

6 Donors

-$732.94

Donations toward project cost

-$623.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$109.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.82

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$0.00

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