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Ms. Kop from Honolulu HI is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Viewing the MicroWorld!

Help me give my students greater precision using microscopes with mechanical stages and the ability to capture images with digital cameras.

  • 9 donors
  • $3,270 still needed

expires Sep 02

  • 9 donors
  • $3,270 still needed
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My Project

The microscope is one of the most traditional tools of biology, and many of the ones in my classroom are older than my students' parents...since I've had a number of their parents as former students! Inspired by the Biosphere II project in Arizona, my Biology classes always terraqua biospheres during ecology [mini closed ecosystems with an aquatic section and a terrestrial part]. Later, when learning about cells and using microscopes, students have the opportunity to open their biospheres and go hunting for microorganisms. It's a challenge to use their hands to move the slide when a critter is swimming quickly. Human Physiology students examine prepared slides of tissues and organs. While nothing is moving, the ability to position the slide so that the pointer is pointing to a specific structure can be crucial. Mechanical stages move slides more smoothly and accurately. Having a camera attached to the microscope should make it easier to photograph than trying to use their phones over the microscope. Also, not everyone has a phone to use, so having a few cameras provides some equity to technology.

For my Health Academy students, microscopy develops observational skills, attention to details, and awareness of careers such as medical technologists, cytotechnicians, microbiologists, pathologists, and others in the Diagnostic Services Program of Study.

While the cost of this project is large, I'm asking for one mechanical stage microscope for each lab table, and a three cameras so that at least every other table can have one attached to a microscope.

Ms. Kop
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wolfe LED Educational Microscope with Mechanical Stage • Carolina Biological Supply Company $318.60 8 $2,548.80
Motic Moticam A2 Digital Camera • Carolina Biological Supply Company $319.50 3 $958.50

Materials cost

$3,507.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $154.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$52.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,744.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$660.75

Total project goal

$4,404.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $4,404.98

6 Donors

-$575.00

Donations toward project cost

-$518.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.25

Matching donations from our partners

-$525.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$446.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.29

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $3,269.68

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