My students need 3 compound microscopes that have 4X, 10X, and 40X objective lenses.
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My students are working hard from 7:30am to 5:00pm every day to master 7th grade Life Science. They are shifting paradigms of what urban, low-income, African-American youth can achieve. Our charter school puts our students, 100% of whom are African-American and the majority of whom qualify for free/reduced lunch, on a college prep track. Our entire focus is on college - how each student will get there, and how they will take what they learn in college to make the world a better place.
Microscopes will give my students the technology they need to master the topics of our course (cells, the human body, heredity, and ecology). These can be very abstract topics in isolation, but with the ability to actually observe cells these topics can come alive, making the content of our course much more tangible and applicable for my students. The opportunity to have classroom microscopes is not always available to inner-city minority students, and would set my students up for success in high school, college, and on into better career options.
For my students to be able to properly investigate the topics of our course, we are in need of 3 compound microscopes. With classroom microscopes my students would be able to observe cells, which would help them learn about the structure and function of different kinds of cells, how their body's cells can become damaged, the role of DNA in heredity, and ecological processes like respiration and photosynthesis. As you can see, microscopes would continually help my students reach a deeper understanding of topics throughout our science course, from cells to ecology.
In an area with high poverty and at a school where the vast majority of the students receive free or reduced lunches, these microscopes are prohibitively expensive. This proposal will fund microscopes for my classes to use in groups of 3-4 students. These compound microscopes are easy to use, while still allowing for sophisticated investigations, and so they are appropriate for science students from grade 5 to grade 8. Having these microscopes integrated into our science curriculum will foster the inquiry-based learning that we need in our classroom. Students will carry the skills of microscopy with them to high school, college, and into their professional lives. When my students contribute to the next generation of scientific discoveries, whether that be finding cures for cancers or mapping the genomes of endangered species, you can know that you had a hand in that process. Thank you!
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