My students need a vortexer to suspend cells and biological molecules during biotech lab work.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Finney's classroom raised $364
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My Students
Our high school's lab is actively pursuing the capacity to run authentic science research projects right inside our own building. One missing piece of the puzzle is a vortexer. The innocuous device sits on the counter, and pulses samples in test tubes when required in a lab protocol.
Our High School is a grade 9-12 public school dedicated to meeting the needs of recent immigrant students in a large urban setting.
We work with speakers of diverse language, cultural and educational backgrounds to ensure all receive access to the learning that will allow them to achieve their own American dreams. As a biology teacher, I struggle to overcome these personal differences, as well as the abstract nature of my discipline, by providing as many materials as I can which reach the kids 'where they are.' By allowing kids to learn science by doing it, they not only learn the discipline concepts, they also have a context for acquiring the language to describe the experience.
My Project
At this point, our classroom is looking a lot like a proper biotech lab setting. The image is shattered a bit, however, when kids have to agitate samples with tapping pencils and what looks like a vigorous game of rock-paper-scissors. By obtaining a vortexer, students will not only have an easier time of processing their samples, they will also improve the yield and reliability of their experiments, and move closer to generating authentic results.
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