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chrisr
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Hi. I'm a retired several-sciences guy, a STEM Ambassador encouraging kids to look at science, hopefully fostering interest.
I'm also interested in microscopy.
I/we are looking for ideas for small items which demonstrate interesting/educational things, for kids to look at through microscopes. I'm trying to get away from traditional pond life and random tissue samples.
This is for age 11-18 students. Item size around an inch, down to hair diameter size.
Schools would get some photos/posters to put up, then I/we turn up with a trunk of scopes (schools would have some too) and a load of mounted specimens to look at. I can make (focus-stacked) images for annotated descriptions. I can prepare section specimens of most things, and mount them in clear acrylic blocks.
Any branch of science -
examples:
all the sensors in a cell phone - accelerometer, compass, camera, microphone, vibrator, speaker,
LEDs and light sensors, section of the screen, & RGB,.
Gas sensors, pH probe, QI filament lamp showing recrystallization in the halogen cycle, heads on a hard drive, a sectioned battery, composite materials, ball pen tip, stomata on a leaf, scales on a butterfly wing, a stent (as in blood vessel), tip of a hypodermic needle,
credit card cut through showing the aerial and processor. Oh and bullets - new empty , and used, .22 shells.
The microscopy can use fluorescence or polarized light.
Anything else? If it ties up with regular school curriculum but is something other than they'd routinely look at (like mitosis in onions) so much the better. Medical is always interesting.
Perhaps you've seen pictures of things, which you could suggest?
Anything you'd like to see illustrated?
I'm also interested in microscopy.
I/we are looking for ideas for small items which demonstrate interesting/educational things, for kids to look at through microscopes. I'm trying to get away from traditional pond life and random tissue samples.
This is for age 11-18 students. Item size around an inch, down to hair diameter size.
Schools would get some photos/posters to put up, then I/we turn up with a trunk of scopes (schools would have some too) and a load of mounted specimens to look at. I can make (focus-stacked) images for annotated descriptions. I can prepare section specimens of most things, and mount them in clear acrylic blocks.
Any branch of science -
examples:
all the sensors in a cell phone - accelerometer, compass, camera, microphone, vibrator, speaker,
LEDs and light sensors, section of the screen, & RGB,.
Gas sensors, pH probe, QI filament lamp showing recrystallization in the halogen cycle, heads on a hard drive, a sectioned battery, composite materials, ball pen tip, stomata on a leaf, scales on a butterfly wing, a stent (as in blood vessel), tip of a hypodermic needle,
credit card cut through showing the aerial and processor. Oh and bullets - new empty , and used, .22 shells.
The microscopy can use fluorescence or polarized light.
Anything else? If it ties up with regular school curriculum but is something other than they'd routinely look at (like mitosis in onions) so much the better. Medical is always interesting.
Perhaps you've seen pictures of things, which you could suggest?
Anything you'd like to see illustrated?
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