Oooooo! My skin is crawling with excitement over Bugscope!
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VERY COOL!
What is Bugscope?
“The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute’sImaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide.
Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves—the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists—all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection.”
How does it work?
“You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We’ll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids’ questions.”
***I love that you can also pop in as a guest at a live session. Awesome!
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msshrummsclassroom reblogged this from iamlittlei and added:
So. Cool. Might have to do this with my biology unit.
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KBKonnected pretty much summed it all up… but ENTOMOLOGY! CLOSE UP! Electron Microscope! How can it get any cooler?! :-)
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