With the Public Lab Community Microscope, your students can explore the invisible microscopic world around them using a microscope they've built themselves! This microscope is the result of many teams' work coming together. You can learn more about the journey on our [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publiclab/the-community-microscope-kit)

On this page, you can:

 - Learn more about the educator community at Public Lab
 - Purchase Community Microscope Kits for your classroom
 - Get instructions for assembling your microscope
 - Find lessons designed around the Community Microscope
 - Get help from the FAQ, or ask your own question

## Education & Public Lab: Get Involved!

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We're creating a strong community of practice where educators of all experiences can sharing resources, knowledge, and lend a hand. [You can learn more about this here.](publiclab.org/wiki/education)

## Getting Classroom Kits For Your School

We offer a variety of tools and kits that can be used in educational settings. ****We offer a 10% discount on bulk educational purchases, and we are always happy to work with educators to make suggestions and prepare custom orders to meet your needs.****

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****This may change as we update store listings

## Assembling Your Community Microscopes

#### Assembling the Microscope Base: 

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For step-by-step instructions on how to assemble your microscope, click here. (Link to new assembly note that needs to be updated with Make images)

#### Converting a Webcam to a Microscope

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pt-9qPCBbQE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

For step-by-step instructions on how to convert your webcam, [click here](https://publiclab.org/notes/bronwen/05-07-2018/microscope-webcam-conversion).

## Using the Community Microscope

Here we would curate a list of lessons for the microscope. Pin the Hello World Activity (would it be an interesting video?) Use a tag like 'edu-microscope-lesson' to get things to show up here. 

[notes:grid:activity:edu-microscope-lesson]

## Get Help

Here is where we'd put our curated FAQ. Undecided whether this would look like a research note that we add to or a list of questions with a special tag that others are unlikely to use. I think if we use questions there needs to be a way to mark an "answer" even if it's a staff member compiling the best bits and pieces from the comments to make one cohesive answer"