Air particle test slide results

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If you are a volunteer it is an opioid addiction. Family and friends come first though volunteering in an inner-city school and at the Smithsonian are a high knowing you contribute to others while connecting to those outside your bubble and sparking a few synopses that have sat in the rocking chair. I volunteer teach biological lab science for an NGO to 5th gr inner-city students, Help a paleo biologist write a journal report and prep his 20-Myear amber. I mentor two beekeepers, (beekeeper for 19 years) and run 1/2 hour to an hour 7 days a week. Total milage for the past 47 years adds up to circling this perky little planet 4 + times. I write with lots of changes while enjoying the struggle and learning. My immediate goal is to devise a foldscope protocol for collecting environmental data that can be done by my 5th graders.

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I volunteer teach 5th grade science and would like a protocol for monitoring the quality of air. How would it be done with foldscope? count particles? measure size? range of particle sizes? numbers with respect to time?
The protocol for detecting 2-micron to 40-micron particles on a slide has been recommended by a comercial air filter company. Coat the view area with white petroleum 100% ASP. All images were prepared with the protocol. One was additionally stained with an iodine solution.
test Air particles
This slide was placed outside about 4 meters from my back porch taped to a brick with three other slides. After taking it inside on after four days, it was stained with RitAid antiseptic solution (provide-iodine 10%) and covered with scotch tape.
There are two dark particles near the 1:30 edge of the image.At 3:00 nearer the center is a large white-black unidentified object, possibly some stain fluid. Also, over 12 grey particles appear randomly on the slide.
Inner-city students will be given foldscopes to have fun with, however they will be asked to collect samples of air particles every week for one year and send images to me. They will be given RitAid antiseptic solution (provide-iodine 10%), plastic slides and covers.
They will be asked to explore other environmental changes helpful to everyone. As Confucius said, “Between the four oceans we are all brothers and sisters”.
Please comment on the tests, on the preping and covers and stains. If there is a way to identify particles please send links to kenglobeatyahoodotcom. I will be grateful for additions, corrections, comments, and suggestions. It may be easier to use the form…
Second test results:
5 day air particles several to over 10-um size thin petroleum jelly wipped glass slide from my back patio.
Air particles collected in my rear patio on 12/4-12/9/2018. A thin layer of petroleum jelly applied with a piece of lens paper on a glass slide. No stain or slide cover. Image taken with an S5 iPhone.
The blur and several dark spots are from the foldscope lens. An image in a different location would show what is air particles and what is the Foldscope contribution.
A cleaning method for the foldscope lens is being investigated.
For 5th grade students it is wiser to use plastic slides. Please suggest how to reuse them and how best to capture air particles. Thank you.
More results:
11-28-18 petroleum jelly particle slide 2 collection days
12-17-18 3 collection days
1-4-19 8 collection days The three images are flawed however random envelope dark spots most likely are particles
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