My students need a pupilCAM to take images and time lapse video of microorganisms in real time. They can bring biology to life and discover the life beneath their feet!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Hua's classroom raised $496
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My Students
I try to incorporate scientific design and creative thinking into the curriculum. I teaching incoming 9th graders who - for many - understand what a "cell" is but has never come close "seeing" and measuring the real world under their feet. Seeing is believing!
I teach at a specialized high school in NYC.
My students are 9th graders who have not taken living environment (biology in NYC). The pupilCAM will be utilized by many teachers who also teach living environment and the advanced biology alternative. Our school is full of eager kids who want to learn, believe, and grow. We having a thriving theater and newspaper, but we are still a public school with a limited budget. My school has a number of biology electives that utilize microscopes. We focus on providing rigorous academic instruction with emphasis on critical thinking.
My Project
Daphnia Experiment:
Students will utilize the pupilCAM to visualize water fleas, take measurements, and analyze their heart rates using real time footage of time lapses that they collect. Since students are designing their own projects, some have elected to measure heart rate. Others have chosen to measure length of adult Daphnia. Students will take pictures of these organisms under the microscope and label any anatomical effects they see due to changes they've implemented.
Comparison of Cells in Plant, Animal, and Bacteria:
Students will bring in common households products and foods, such as yogurt to visualize under the microscope. Students will stain them bacteria in yogurt, take pictures, and analyze the different composition of bacteria in different yogurts.
Pond Life:
Students will visualize microscopic organisms from a local puddle, pond, or pool of water from their backyard. They will identify and analyze the organisms present and figure out how and WHY they interact.
The pupilCAM will open doors to collecting more data for analysis.
It will open students' eyes to the microscopic world around us. I believe that science should not just be taught from a textbook. It needs to be seen, experienced, and felt. If we never bring our students closer to the real world, when will they realize the beauty of the world they live in? I hope to open their eyes to how the canvas of our reality is shaped by the multitude of life around them. They will SEE.
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