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Mrs. Meacham from Brussels, WI is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Zooming In On Science

My students need a digital microscope to allow them to interact with and learn about their world up close and personal.

  • $158 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

“Let Nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth Although they thoroughly enjoy books and videos, I find that when they physically interact with the world around them my students are truly engaged and inquisitive.

The six and seven years old students in my rural, first grade classroom enjoy the process of learning.

Their natural inquisitiveness takes us down many paths of learning. Whether we're learning about penguins, map making, or perfecting our skills as emergent readers and writers; our days are full of activity. Students in my room are participants in the learning process. They help make decisions about what we'll learn and the best method for doing so. They are problem-solvers and take pride in the collaborative spirit we've created in our classroom.

My Project

We have a classroom terrarium. I brought in an old aquarium and my first graders helped me turn it into a terrarium for critter "visitors" that stay for a short time while we observe and learn about them. Whether it's a "visitor" from our school woods, pond, playground, school or a "visitor" brought from home, they always bring squeals of delight, surprise, and excitement, and moments of silence, thoughtfulness, and questioning. We love to get close and personal with the critters that come into our classroom. We interact with them while they are in the terrarium. Once we were fortunate and were able to utilize a borrowed, digital microscope. It connected to our classroom computer and displayed the image on our screen. If we had our own digital microscope, we'd use it regularly. Opportunities for use often happen at unplanned times. Those times that we discover a dangling spider, hatching caterpillar eggs, or an emerging moth!

A digital microscope would be a learning tool in our classroom.

We'd use it to broaden our view of the world in which we live. Having our own digital microscope would allow us to use it on a whim for not only planned learning opportunities, but also those moments during the day that are not planned... just crying out for a closer look!

Mrs. Meacham
Grades PreK-2
    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

    This project will reach 17 students.

    5 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Aven 26700-300 ZipScope USB Digital Microscope with 2 Mega-Pixel 10x-50x Optical, 200x Digital Magnification • Amazon $102.12 1 $102.12

Materials cost

$102.12

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.59

Total project goal

$157.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $157.24

3 Donors

-$81.00

Donations toward project cost

-$69.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.40

match offer

-$75.35

Match offer toward project cost

-$64.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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