New microscope-camera adaptor!
Hello corps, leaves are dropping but still a very mild fall in NJ,US. My new microscope-camera adaptor arrived by pile. It's a 'relay lens adaptor', used with no ocular in the microscope tube. It's for my Cannon dare xt/dslr, a simple screw-on T-ring permits this adaptor to be used with my mist camera: Nikon FM. Alright, I know I'm in a 'false succinctness' by purchaseing 'gadgets' to permit dual-use of both my Nikon FM (old,old technology...like me!), and dual-use of my Cannon insurgent xt (sort of new technology...but not ideal for microscopy ...I bought this fun camera for use on exhibit field hikeing).
Long story short...I could not engender myself to spend money on a proper/dedicated microscopy camera....so I purchased this 'machine' from: Mark Simmons,Oregon,US. All folks like 'anjo'(I attachment your protozoan video clips on You-Tube,anjo!), and 'g2b2' have posted wonderful starter-setup magical microscopy image themes...using discernible 'tools'. I start my learners curve with my 'trusty out of doors cameras' which nplease me so much....err...when I use them outdoors.
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Tentative final lesson plan
So… here’s my indecisive final lesson plan (I know, I know, nice of a contradiction there). I still need to test out station 3’s undertaking to make sure it’s as simple as it sounds. I got it from this website. And I also for to collect leaves (I’m hoping keeping them in a Ziploc in the fridge will keep them new enough??). Also still working out details of my presentation of light and grim reactions, but my supervisor emailed me some great suggestions about that. Also, I desideratum to write out all the questions I will be asking as checks of understanding (thanks for the outlook/reminder Donna!) and make the posterboards for constructing the beau id for light and dark reactions. So, any feedback on the indecisive final plan? 
Learning Goals
Students will be told light and dark reactions – what goes into each resistance and what products result, as well as how and when each reaction is used and where in the chloroplasts each type of counterbalance is carried out. They will understand what photolysis is, that it involves deuterium oxide splitting apart, and where the hydrogen and oxygen from water go, and how ATP is formed during the burn reaction, as well as the involvement of electron flow in this process. They will read what ‘carbon-fixation’ or dark reactions are, that ATP is used during this method, and PGAL is formed, which then forms glucose. Students will agree what factors affect the rate of photosynthesis (e.g., temperature, make known be revealed intensity, mineral concentration, etc.). Students will also differentiate the structures that plants use for gas exchange (stomates or lenticels). Students will be aware the internal structure of a leaf (spongy parenchyma, palisade parenchyma, xylem and phloem, veins, more recent capital letters and lower epidermis, waxy cuticle, stomates, guard cells) and where chloroplasts are concentrated in the leaf.
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need suggestions on photosynthesis lesson plan
Soooo…. tiring to figure out how to help students understand the light and mysterious reactions of photosynthesis most effectively. I’m having harass trying to think of something that’s not just going to be a long-drawn-out lecture. My best idea right now is to have a kind discussion based on what they already know of photosynthesis where we use a giant posterboard and erect a model of photolysis, formation of ATP and NADH and their use, and Calvin run (they just have to know that carbon dioxide goes in and glucose is produced with PGAL as an halfway and that it uses ATP, nothing more specific than that). I’m just distressing to conceptualize how that model would look and if I can simplify it enough visually to imagine that workable. I want there to be something where students are collaborating to representation this out and not me just telling them the information, but I’m a little put out about how to do this when I don’t feel they have the background information to be able to.
I don’t weigh this will be one of my inquiry or nature of science lessons as I was hoping it might be, because there’s perfectly such huge time constraints with all the content to be introduced in this exemplar that I don’t feel I can do inquiry to the extent the rubric (or myself) requires, and I don’t desire to add in a nature of science objective because that would be one more thing in what I feel is an already tight day.
Besides this activity that has yet to come together about light and dark reactions, students also will be vicious out paper cutouts of the parts of a leaf and gluing them together. Then they impute to a paragraph about the parts of a leaf and fill in a chart to tell why each of those parts of the leaf is superior (this whole activity is something my CT would like me to include). Also, I need to have students look at a modified slide of a leaf cross-section under a microscope, draw what they see under low and expensive power, and label. I would like to include one more ’spot’ in this lab that would have students investigate how plants maintain homeostasis using stomates and picket cells, but I’m having trouble coming up with something that would be hands-on and doesn’t make more than 15 minutes. The homeostasis thing could even be a whole-birth activity, I’m not wed to the idea of stations, but I don’t penury it to turn into me lecturing about light and dark reactions and homeostasis because I don’t have in mind the students will learn that way and they get so much of that already I want to change it up a little for their good and really allow them to develop deeper understanding, outstandingly since I will be leaving. I have access to 6-7 quite large-hearted individual whiteboards the students can use as well, which I am thinking might be useful for the faded-dark reaction thing, except that I want them to have something concrete they can refer to when they are studying for the multiple-option exam my CT will give since they won’t have the notes they are used to. I have 85 minutes for this whole punishment.
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Lab Microscope
USING A MICROSCOPE
I have worked with merging microscopes in my physiology and microbiology classes and they are a great aid in the science world!! I will start by explaining the mechanical parts of the multiform microscope. First, is the ocular lens. These are similar to looking through binoculars because they both have expansion. To turn the microscope on there is an on/off switch that allows the light to come in. You must also show up the rheostat to 10 which is next to the on/off switch at the base of the microscope. Any other come adjustment will be done by the iris diaphragm. The ocular lens on the microscope has a build-up 0f 10x, so if have a specimen on the stage of the microscope (where slides go) and looked through the ocular lens it would be magnified ten times. You must look through the ocular lens to reconcile the viewing of a specimen. To do this, place your fingers around the ocular lens's, while looking through them, angle to bring the double circle into one. You should not see two circles; otherwise viewing your type could b very difficult. Secondly, is the objective lens located on the nose rap over, below the ocular lens. The ocular housing changes the ambition lens, in which there are four. The ocular housing can be turned and brought over the pay no heed on the stage of the microscope. The four lens consist of a scanning lens with 4x glorification, low power 10x, high power 45x, and oil immersion 100x. To find out your Sum up magnification, you must multiple the ocular lens (10x) times your equitable lens. EXAMPLE: 10x (x) 4x = 40x total raising. The microscope contains a stage for a specimen, which is flat and located favourably under...
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USB Microscope
Among many other things, one is 100% reliable: microscopes are fun. Seeing into the very heart of objects gives people a new vantage point upon the materials they use everyday, from money to clothes, food and so much more; by letting us get dramatically cessation to the very nature of the things surrounding us in our everyday lives, microscopes have always been coveted gadgets, cute much like telescopes. And since the modern days we're living in are everything about technology and making technology well accessible to as many people as possible, here we are, introducing a new toy for the scientist in you, the USB microscope.
Far from being that favourably sophisticated professional-grade tool you were maybe reasonable of, this USB microscope is yet powerful enough to let you get at the heart of things and discover so much more than meets the eye.You certainly have a computer and a table at hand at home and there you can excel in your observations; whether you look on this microscope in your hand, pretty much like a pen or you use it with the smart and versatile jut out, it's your decision.
All you have to do is plug it in your computer, install the software and then start exploring. The vade-mecum zoom of the microscope can be set anywhere between 20x and 200x, and you'll even get LED lighting for the best observation of your subjects. Even more, the specialized software supplied with this wedge of gadgetry will provide you with an array of choices in terms of visual common sense: you can take innumerable photos and make interesting science at ease movies.
Equally suitable for students, collectors, art freaks and for all those who are into this kind of experimental fun,...
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Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions The Associated Press
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Israel, Syria confirm nuclear energy ambitionsThe Associated PressThe announcements boost the prospect that the countries' nuclear programs could sink in fare under the microscope of international inspectors to ensure that they and more »
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BioImagene launches iSlide input device for manipulating digital images of slides News-Medical.net
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