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Mrs. Casto from Buffalo WV is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Demonstrate and Educate!

Help me give my students the excitement of seeing the microscopic world while helping them improve their microscopy skills!

  • 2 donors
  • $707 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

My students love using the microscopes. We use microscopes to test Monarch butterflies for OE before release, finding microscopic life in moss and pond water, and viewing cells. The problem we deal when learning to use microscopes is knowing that students are looking at what they should be and the amount of time it takes to go to each station and check what each group is looking at. Then showing them again how to scan and focus. Being able to show them how to scan the slide and focus on the sample, as well as being able to show then what they are looking for before they try on their own would be a game changer! Help me equip my students for their futures by enabling me to teach them more!

Mrs. Casto
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Celestron PentaView LCD Digital Microscope • Carolina Biological Supply Company $562.50 1 $562.50

Materials cost

$562.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$600.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.05

Total project goal

$706.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $706.99

1 Donor

-$353.50

Donations toward project cost

-$300.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.02

match offer

-$353.48

Match offer toward project cost

-$300.46

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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