This webinar is for anyone wanting to become confident in teaching microscopy to secondary students, with a particular focus on post-16. You will explore the importance of teaching calibration and measuring, supporting your students to take things further with their microscopy.  You will discover preparatory resources and microscope-based activities that will allow your students to practise essential techniques, utilise a range of maths skills and provide them with the confidence to ask questions and challenge their perceptions about the subcellular world.

Through this session and associated resources:

• You will develop your knowledge for teaching calibration and measuring skills, including preparatory activities to support your students
• You will explore calibration and measuring activities investigating cell size and growth in red onion (Allium cepa), stomatal density in Tradescantia zebrina and the speed of chloroplast movement in the pondweed Egeria densa.
• Your students will develop a better sense of scale at the cellular level
• Your students will have opportunities to collect data to explore fascinating questions

All photographs were taken by the author using a handheld iPhone 11. The microscope used was a VWR Visiscope series 200 Model TL224 with a x10 eyepiece and x4, x10 and x40 objective lenses.

The other 2 sessions in this series are:

Building confidence in Microscopy

4th June 4.30 - 5.45 pm

This webinar is for anyone wanting to become confident in teaching microscopy to secondary students of any age. We will explore some critical concepts in microscopy and suggest some specimens to use. These will help you teach microscopy lessons that help students become confident and enthusiastic users of microscopes and skilled interpreters of what they see. The specimens suggested are readily available and require minimal preparation giving students much more time to practise using a microscope.

Staining and getting things thin: Preparing slides for effective teaching. Great for technicians and non-specialists

11th June 4.30 - 5.45pm

This session aims to support technicians and teachers (ECTs, trainees and those with limited experience in using microscopes) in slide preparation, allowing them to create their own slides to support their teaching. This will enable students to access a wider range of topics through microscopy, but also will build teacher and technician confidence in teaching how to prepare microscope slides.

Cost:

ASE Member: 1 Webinar £20, 3 Webinars £45

Non- members: 1 Webinar £40, 3 Webinars £80