Application Of Video-Probe Microscopy To Biology Teaching

作为课程重大修订的一部分，一种革命性的教学显微镜将被引入生物实验室入门课堂。该仪器的效率和戏剧性的效果已经在一个试点项目中得到证明，该项目名为探索微结构：向生物学学生和教师介绍高科技显微镜的图像、工具和应用。这种技术先进的显微镜由一个微型、手持、自发光摄像机组成，摄像机上有可更换的放大镜，通过光纤电缆连接到电视监视器上。通过将镜头尖端触摸到任何被观察的物体上，任何年龄或能力的用户都可以立即在常规电视监视器上产生适当放大倍数的明亮、聚焦的图像。这一工具将改进非理科专业的调查生物学实验室。录像带可以以正常的方式录制。可以开发的应用程序的数量几乎是无限的，将成为K-12课程和本科课程想法的生成器。我们的试点范围进入K-12和本科课堂所带来的初步兴奋，值得将该计划扩大到这个更大规模的项目。

A revolutionary teaching microscope will be introduced into the introductory biology laboratory classroom as part of a major revision of the curriculum. The efficiency and dramatic effect of this instrument has been demonstrated in a pilot project, Exploring Microstructures: Introducing Biology Students and Teachers to Images, Tools and Applications of High-Tech Microscopy. The technologically-advanced microscope consists of a tiny, hand-held, self-illuminated video camera with interchangeable magnifying lenses attached by a fiber optics cable to a television monitor. By touching the tip of the lens to any object under scrutiny, a user of any age or ability immediately produces a well-lighted, in-focus image of the appropriate magnification on a regular television monitor. This tool will improve the investigative biology laboratory for non- science majors. Video recordings can be made in the normal fashion.The number of applications that can be developed is virtually unlimited and will serve as a generator of ideas for K-12 as well as undergraduate curricula. The preliminary excitement elicited by the entry of our pilot scope into K-12 and undergraduate classrooms merits the expansion of the program into this larger scale project.