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Mr. Jones
Grades 9-12
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
    • 8 donors
    • $0 still needed

    Hidden Worlds- Up Close and Personal

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

    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.

    Hooray! This project is fully funded

    Where Your Donation Goes

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

    Materials cost

    $506.00

    Vendor shipping charges

    $50.60

    State 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.org reach more classrooms

    $136.76

    Total project goal

    $759.76

    How we calculate what's needed

    Total project goal

    $759.76

    8 Donors

    -$732.94

    Donations toward project cost

    -$623.00

    Donations to help DonorsChoose.org reach more classrooms

    -$109.94

    Excluded support for DonorsChoose.org

    -$26.82

    Still needed View calculationHide calculation

    $0.00

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