Microscopy Workshops at Gifted Education Conference for Kids
The Missoula County Public School’s Gifted and Talented Program is holding a Gifted Education Conference for Kids at The University of Montana on May 19, 2009. The EM Facility will be providing 2 90-minute workshops entitled “Discover What Your Eyes Have Been Missing” for the conference. Each workshop will have a 60 minute hands-on session where the students will observe common objects, attempt to identify them using hand lenses and light microscopes, answer questions about the objects, and see SEM images of the objects at high resolution and magnification. Each group will then visit the EM facility to see the electron microscopes in action. Although it may be a tight fit with 12 students in each group we have found that showing them the actual instruments can help kids understand the technology behind the images on the screen.