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Mrs. Abrams-Ruque from Jeromesville OH is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Microscope for Students who are Visually Impaired

Help me give my students a digital microscope so students with vision loss can participate in microscope labs.

  • $589 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Seeing students comfortable in my classroom and excited about learning has been the greatest gift since joining Donors Choose. We are a rural, low-income school district surrounded by farmland, which many students live and work on. Many of my students are tactile or kinesthetic learners who enjoy being able to get out of their desks, move around, work with their hands, experiment, and create things.

My students have a broad spectrum of abilities and learning styles, including a unique group of learners with special needs who often require modified instruction to achieve success in our science class.

My Project

Students who experience vision impairments can often feel left out in science classes which involve visual learning experiences, particularly during lab experiments. I want to help my new student with visual impairments feel included and not as dependent on others during science labs. Though few students with visual impairments benefit from utilizing a light microscope directly, many students with low vision can benefit from devices which allow microscope images to be displayed on a screen rather than through the eyepiece of the microscope. I want to empower my student and allow her to experience using a microscope with an adaptive screen to help her see a microscopic world that she otherwise would not be able to.

Not only will this microscope help students with vision loss feel included in completing science activities, it will also allow all of my students to capture images and videos of their specimens in ways that our other classroom microscopes cannot.

Microscopes are such an important tool in a biology classroom. Students are excited to use microscopes and I do not want anyone to feel left out or miss out on the experience. Using microscopes allows students to fine-tune their science skills for future STEM careers. In conjunction with the IF/THEN website, students will learn about diversity in the STEM field and find role models in careers they hope to pursue. I am confident that all of my students will benefit from hearing personal stories from the IF/THEN Ambassadors and by using this type of microscope to capture images of microscopic life they would not otherwise be able to see.

Mrs. Abrams-Ruque
Grades 9-12
  • Hillsdale High School
  • Jeromesville, OH
    • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 65 students.

    5 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Celestron PentaView LCD Digital Microscope • Carolina Biological Supply Company $463.50 1 $463.50

Materials cost

$463.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$500.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.31

Total project goal

$588.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $588.76

4 Donors

-$293.94

Donations toward project cost

-$250.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.34

match offer

-$293.94

Match offer toward project cost

-$249.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.09

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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