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  • Geraldine School
  • Geraldine, MT
  • Half of students from low‑income households

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Microscopes are a pretty essential tool in a science classroom, whether it's middle school students learning how to use a microscope, biology students studying mitosis, earth science students looking at thin sections of minerals, or anatomy and physiology students working to understand the differences between muscle cells. I'm the only science teacher at my school, so I teach all of those courses. The microscopes in our science classroom are from 1970 - I wish I were hyperbolizing. Some of them work well enough, but many of them are old, dusty, and cracked. Even the ones that do work leave a lot to be desired - they don't magnify past a 40X objective, the image quality is lackluster, and the bulbs are dim. I'd love to be able to replace those microscopes with something more modern. Higher-power objectives would open so many doors for my students, and a higher lens quality would allow them to see so much more. Mechanical stages would make it easier for my students to scan around the slide instead of focusing on a tiny section. And Celestron digital imagers would be the cherry on top, allowing my students to send images from their microscopes to their Chromebooks for labeling, analysis, and future reference.

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Microscopes are a pretty essential tool in a science classroom, whether it's middle school students learning how to use a microscope, biology students studying mitosis, earth science students looking at thin sections of minerals, or anatomy and physiology students working to understand the differences between muscle cells. I'm the only science teacher at my school, so I teach all of those courses. The microscopes in our science classroom are from 1970 - I wish I were hyperbolizing. Some of them work well enough, but many of them are old, dusty, and cracked. Even the ones that do work leave a lot to be desired - they don't magnify past a 40X objective, the image quality is lackluster, and the bulbs are dim. I'd love to be able to replace those microscopes with something more modern. Higher-power objectives would open so many doors for my students, and a higher lens quality would allow them to see so much more. Mechanical stages would make it easier for my students to scan around the slide instead of focusing on a tiny section. And Celestron digital imagers would be the cherry on top, allowing my students to send images from their microscopes to their Chromebooks for labeling, analysis, and future reference.

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