Microscope Guessing Game
We looked at animal and plant cells in science this week. Then we looked at other things too. Can you guess what we looked at?
Bugscope Session
The Bugscope is an $800,000 scanning electron microscope housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A student sitting at a laptop in Iowa (or anywhere) can focus, change contrast, and zoom in on some really interesting specimens. My students and I were privileged to be the first Bugscope session of the season. It was [...]
Fungus and Flat Classrooms
Earlier this summer I found some kind of shelf fungus on the street underneath a tree. We aren’t sure exactly what kind of fungus it is, so we went about trying to figure out what it might be. First, we made observations about the tree we believe it dropped from. We took photos, drew sketches, [...]
