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Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab from San Diego, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Foldscopes for Scoping Out Science

Help me give my students Foldscopes, a paper foldable microscope to use at home and at school.

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My Students

My students come from a wide variety of learning situations, from struggling to striving. The school is set within a suburban community near military housing. Even though my school is within a large metropolitan city, it feels like a small community and sheltered, an "island in the hills." Within these hills, we have a variety of ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as several families that have moved here from other countries. Many of our students are also grappling with parents being deployed or on active duty.

Project-based, STEAM exploration is engaging and motivating to all my students, and a tool to building a growth-mindset, regardless of their academic level.

My students are exuberant and creative, and I am constantly challenged to investigate new opportunities for them to test the waters in STEM/STEAM learning for all grade levels in TK-5th grade. We also make a concerted effort to incorporate NGSS standards and make it relevant to the students' world and interests. The curriculum is student-driven and ever-morphing to meet their needs in a problem-based learning environment.

My Project

Foldscope is an ultra-affordable paper microscope. It was designed to be portable and durable while performing on par with conventional research microscopes (140X magnification and 2-micron resolution).

With those capabilities, the many wonders of the microscopic world will be at my students' fingertips!

They will be able to view very tiny things like bacteria, blood cells, and single-celled organisms, as well as larger things like a insects, fabrics, organic tissues, and more!

There will be enough Foldscopes available to distribute to my students for use at home while we are doing virtual learning, but also to bring back and use in the classroom.

Mrs. Allard's STEAM Lab Vista Grande Elementary School Grades 3-5

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San Diego, CA View local requests

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

430 students impacted 107donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Combined Deluxe Individual Kit and Basic Classroom Kit (21 Foldscopes). • Foldscope $63.00 10 $630.00

Materials cost

$630.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $87.00

Sales tax

 $57.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$814.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.66

Total project goal

$957.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $957.75

97 Donors

-$864.39

Donations toward project cost

-$771.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.88

match offer

-$50.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.51

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$43.27

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 $0.00

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