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

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Microscope Mania

My students need a microscope to use during labs.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Abrams-Ruque's classroom raised $345

This project is fully funded

My Students

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I want to provide my students with more hands-on lab experiences. I use hand-on activities, science songs, and video clips to help all styles of learners and keep students engaged.

I am lucky to teach around 100 high school students in grades 10-12.

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. After our district downsized and cut our industrial arts and family consumer science programs and half of our music, agriculture, and art programs, I realized there were not many hands-on opportunities left for students. Now that they are without many of their interactive elective courses, I can tell my students miss being able to get out of their desks, work with their hands, and create things. I feel more responsibility than ever to provide hands-on opportunities for students. I strive to provide as many inquiry lab experiences as possible throughout all of my science courses despite the district's financial struggles.

My Project

As class sizes grow larger, I simply do not have enough microscopes to accommodate all of my student lab groups. When working with microscopes, no more than two students per group is effective, because students have to take turns looking through the microscope. As my class numbers rise, I have been forced to have some groups with three students. I would love to get an additional microscope for my classroom to optimize student participation and learning with smaller lab group sizes.

This donation would help decrease the chaos on lab days because students would not be having to wait as long to look through a microscope.

It would give students more time and opportunity to use this valuable tool in our class. It will allow students to visualize our class content and gain a deeper level of understanding for life and the biological sciences.

Mrs. Abrams-Ruque Hillsdale High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
National Optical 131-CLED Intermediate and High School Inclined Monocular Compound Microscope, Widefield 10x Eyepiece, DIN 4x, 10x and 40xR Achromatic Objective, LED Illumination Light Source, 110V, 40x, 100x and 400x Magnification • Amazon $259.00 1 $259.00

Materials cost

$259.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$292.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.68

Total project goal

$344.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $344.56

13 Donors

-$153.58

Donations toward project cost

-$133.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.89

Matching donations from our partners

-$187.28

Match offers toward project cost

-$159.19

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.09

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.70

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 $0.00

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