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Ms. Kangas from West Covina, CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Please Help Me Make Viewing the Microscopic World More Visible

Help me give my students the opportunity to view the invisible wild world of the single-cell organism. And take a picture!

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Since COVID-19, there has been a real interest among the students when it comes to learning about viruses and other organisms that are too small to see. I believe it because the pandemic hit our area quite hard, and most of our students were impacted in some way. Now, they want to understand more about the unseen world. A real life-changing experience can make a student take an interest in science.

Although viruses are too small to see under a classroom microscope, there is a whole world of single-cell motile organisms that fascinate teenagers when they see movement on a slide while looking in a microscope.

Suddenly, they want to know about paramecium, volvoxes, amoebas, diatoms, and other wonders that share the world with them without their knowledge.

This year, I would really like to put more of an emphasis on the invisible world. I tell them in order to hook their attention," When swimming in a lake, river, or ocean, do you really know whom you are swimming with?"

The Celestron microscope is a powerful tool that will make this goal achievable. It is an LCD microscope with a digital zoom up to 1600x, includes a camera, and interfaces with laptops, TVs, and projectors. This will allow me to display the images on our large screen in real-time and save photos for the whole class to view. Photos can be used later for projects and displays in the classroom. I hope you will consider this project when deciding to donate. Those who donate will receive digital photos from our slides.

Ms. Kangas West Covina High School Grades 9-12

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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West Covina, CA View local requests

More than half 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Celestron PentaView LCD Digital Microscope • Carolina Biological Supply Company $517.50 1 $517.50

Materials cost

$517.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $47.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$602.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.34

Total project goal

$708.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $708.95

2 Donors

-$354.48

Donations toward project cost

-$301.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.17

match offer

-$354.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$301.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.17

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