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Ms. Carcione from Brooklyn, NY is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What's Better than a Diarama? A Biorama!

Help me give my students a chance to witness first hand how diverse life on our planet is with these three beautiful professional bioramas!

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My Students

My students are fun-loving, enthusiastic scientists ready to take their learning to new levels! Our population is made up of a diverse group of learners from Brooklyn, NY, including ENL students and special education students.

My goal is to continue multi-modal, project-based learning in my classroom, where my students perform their own scientific research, build models, innovate solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

They use their knowledge of coding to enhance their presentations. My students are some of the most creative, young minds I have ever met, and are always ecstatic at the start of any new project I introduce to them. It is most important that my students understand how to apply what they are learning in the classroom to the real world. We analyze case studies after each unit (for example, analyzing Hurricane Sandy during our Weather and Atmosphere unit, or The Fukashima meltdown during our Nuclear Power unit) and then conduct research on their own in order to evaluate where our curriculum fits into the real world.

My Project

As a former Wildlife Conservation and Entomology major, I get SO excited to show my students how biodiverse the life on planet Earth is. We explore physical features and adaptions of various organisms regularly, as well as organisms' life stages and how humans use this information in our daily lives (such as to solve crimes!)

These three bioramas will provide my students an up-close look at real organisms we use in the field of forensic entomology, as well as a glance at various types of metamorphosis across the Animal Kingdom!

They will also see how living things don't always look the way they may expect (not every organism has a face or arms and legs!) with our new Algae species biorama. We could also talk about the recent neurotoxic red algae bloom in the southern US that's currently wiping out aquatic ecosystems as we we make our biorama observations.

I know my students will be so excited to view and examine real specimens. I try my best to make each lesson as hands-on and relevant to modern society as possible, and I think these bioramas will also help me expose my students to lesser known careers that exist in the ever-fascinating wildlife/biological fields!

Ms. Carcione Junior High School 62 Ditmas School Grades 6-8

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insect Metamorphosis Set, Biorama Preparation • Carolina Biological Supply Company $69.30 1 $69.30
Forensic Insects Biorama • Carolina Biological Supply Company $57.60 1 $57.60
Algae Collection Biorama • Carolina Biological Supply Company $54.00 1 $54.00

Materials cost

$180.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$213.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.70

Total project goal

$251.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$251.31

3 Donors

-$251.31

Donations toward project cost

-$213.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.70

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$0.00

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