Swift Instrument Booth

Teaching Demonstrations
Donald Cronkite, Hope College, Holland, MI and 
Jewel Reuter, Archbishop Rummel High School, Metairie, LA

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Pictures from the Convention

Classroom Lesson Handouts

"He Never Cleaned His Teeth" – vanLeeuwenhoek's Discovery of the Oral Bacteria (1683)

Cytoplasmic Streaming in Plasmodial Slime Molds

Sliced Exceeding Thin – Robert Hooke’s Observation of Cells (1635)

Magnification and Resolution

Gametogenesis in Ferns: Sperm of the Clover Fern

A Model of Microscope Optics

Staining in Microscopy

The Beat Goes On:
Heartbeats in fish embryos 

How's Your Image:
Capturing video images for enjoyment and analysis  

Studying stomata with 
Tradescantia
 

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(10 - 15 minutes out of each hour)

Time

Friday, March 23

Saturday, March 24

  9:15

Four Significant Events in the History of the Microscope  (Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, Brown, and Harting et al.)

Four Significant Events in the History of the Microscope  (Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, Brown, and Harting et al.)

10:15

Magnification and Resolution studied with diatoms

Studying stomata with Tradescantia

11:15

Heart rate in Medaka and Zebra fish embryos

Heart rate in Medaka and Zebra fish embryos

12:15

Studying stomata with Tradescantia

Capturing video images for enjoyment and analysis

  1:15

Cytoplasmic streaming in plasmodial slime molds

Magnification and Resolution studied with diatoms

  2:15

A simple optical bench to show how a compound microscope works

A simple optical bench to show how a compound microscope works

  3:15

Pollen tubes and fern sperm

Pollen tubes and fern sperm

  4:15

Capturing video images for enjoyment and analysis

Cytoplasmic streaming in plasmodial slime molds