Babette Shoemaker

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  Feathers through the foldscope.  I found that the feathers are easiest for new users to focus on.
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Great starter slide

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  <img alt="Leading an investigation." class="size-medium wp-image-12718 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12718" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="student lead investigation" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12717/student-lead-investigation.png" width="201"/>
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  Leading an investigation.
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  <img alt="using foldscopes to evaluate the quality of homemade plastics. " class="size-medium wp-image-12719 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12719" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="introducing foldscopes" data-recalc-dims="1" height="201" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12717/introducing-foldscopes.png" width="300"/>
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  using foldscopes to evaluate the quality of homemade plastics.
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  <img alt="using foldscopes to evaluate the quality of homemade plastics. " class="size-medium wp-image-12720 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="introducing foldscopes2" data-recalc-dims="1" height="201" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12717/introducing-foldscopes2.png" width="300"/>
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  After leading the lab she created to create plastic from hair, the student had her classmates evaluate the quality of the plastic they produced with the foldscopes.
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A student Lead Investigation

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  Volvox from a pond near school.
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<p>
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  video using foldscope, observing local pond water
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  <img alt="Our set up for using the foldscopes in our teacher training class for local ecology." class="size-medium wp-image-12725 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12725" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="local ecology class3" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12722/local-ecology-class3.png" width="201"/>
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  Our set up for using the foldscopes in our teacher training class for local ecology.
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  <img alt="Using a foldscope to observe local pond water." class="size-medium wp-image-12726 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12726" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="local ecology class4" data-recalc-dims="1" height="201" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12722/local-ecology-class4.png" width="300"/>
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  Using a foldscope to observe local pond water.
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  <img alt="We made homemade well slides out of acetate sheets and hot glue." class="size-full wp-image-12727 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12727" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="making slides" data-recalc-dims="1" height="95" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12722/making-slides.png" width="128"/>
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  We made homemade well slides out of acetate sheets and hot glue.
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<p>
 After bringing the foldscopes to the teacher training class the professor wanted to keep my foldscope – Umm, NO!
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<p>
 Everyone quickly agreed how useful the foldscopes would be when taking students out into the field for observations.
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Introducing Other Teachers to Foldscopes!

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 I took my foldscopes to an art classroom as a joint project for the students.  The students were asked to find the patterns in nature by looking through the foldscopes and then create an art project based on what they saw.  Below is one example of the artwork that resulted from the observations of the parts of a buttercup flower.
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  <img alt="butter cup flower petal" class="size-medium wp-image-12827 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12827" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="flower petal" data-recalc-dims="1" height="225" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12825/flower-petal.png" width="300"/>
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  butter cup flower petal
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  <img alt="Pollen grains from the buttercup flower." class="size-medium wp-image-12828 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12828" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="pollengrains" data-recalc-dims="1" height="201" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12825/pollengrains.png" width="300"/>
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  Pollen grains from the buttercup flower.
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  <img alt="Resulting artwork from foldscope activity." class="size-full wp-image-12829 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12829" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="art from foldscope" data-recalc-dims="1" height="192" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12825/art-from-foldscope.png" width="256"/>
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  Resulting artwork from foldscope activity.
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Foldscopes in an Art Class

<p>
 During a nut based lab my students happened upon a grub and immediately asked if they could view it with the foldscopes.  Below are the picture of the unfortunate fellow:
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  <img alt="hairs on a grub" class="size-medium wp-image-12833 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12833" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="grub2" data-recalc-dims="1" height="201" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12832/grub2.png" width="300"/>
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  hairs on a grub
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  <img alt="grub3" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12834 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12834" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="grub3" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12832/grub3.png" width="300"/>
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  <img alt="grub4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12835 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="12835" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="grub4" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_12832/grub4.png" width="300"/>
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Poor little grub&#8230;

<p>
 One of my students is completing a research study on snails and the development of the eggs.  These are videos of the snail eggs taken with the foldscope.
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   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/snail-egg3.mp4
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   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/snail-egg4.mp4
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Snail Eggs

<p>
 This is a video of a single replacement reaction of copper foil and silver nitrate.  It does take a brief moment to come into focus as I was tipping to get solution to meet up with the foil.  I love to watch the silver crystals  grow!
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   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/sragno3cu.mp4
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Babette Shoemaker

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Posts

Foldscopes in an Art Class

Poor little grub…

Snail Eggs

Watching a Single Replacement Reaction

Great starter slide

A student Lead Investigation

Introducing Other Teachers to Foldscopes!

Foldscopes in an Art Class

Poor little grub…

Snail Eggs

Watching a Single Replacement Reaction

Great starter slide

A student Lead Investigation

Introducing Other Teachers to Foldscopes!

Foldscopes in an Art Class

Poor little grub…

Snail Eggs

Watching a Single Replacement Reaction

Locations

Statistics

Type of Sample

Foldscope Lens Magnification