Resources

__ Activities __ A Middle School activity that elicits student preconceptions about microbes as they explore their school environment. Includes the use of microscopes, observation, comparison.

__ Web Sites __

The MICROBE ZOO: Great information about microbes, both harmful and helpful, found in soil, around the house, on people, animals, water, our foods, and even spaces. The website does not contain images, but this is not a deficit; our students can research, discover, and/or draw images to illustrate their own zoo.

**ImagiNations** at Lehigh University has a program for remote use of an electron microscope. The k-12 program is currently suspended but we are investigating.

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Nano4Me hosted at the University Of Pennsylvania also has a remote access program and Philip has requested information.

Check Bugscope Is a tool that students might use to build a media rich virtual zoo. The link goes to a prezi tutorial page on how to build an effective Prezi

Content Standards

Art standards relating to projects – with exemplar activities in plain English __Arts and Humanities:__ 9.1.A Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities:
 * PA State Standards**:
 * // Visual Arts: • color • form/shape • line • space • texture • value //


 * Visual Arts: • balance • contrast • emphasis/focal point • proportion/scale

B. Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. //Students will make decisions about line quality, how to depict the subject's texture, appropriate scale to use,and observed areas to emphasize//

Science standards ?????Career Awareness and Preparation:


 * 13.1.8.A Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes**

//﻿// Students will identify formal elements of drawing. Students will apply contour line techniques Students will translate visual data into line drawings
 * //Scientific Illustrator//
 * //FIne Artist//
 * Learning Objectives and Cognitive Skills:**
 * __Identify and Interpret:__**
 * __Synthesize and Apply:__**

4th grade Science standards understanding magnification, body systems, habitats

Science Standards:

A: Understanding Magnification 1) Understanding "Bird's Eye View" B: Understanding Habitats 2) Living and Non-Living Components Within Each Habitat 3) Essential Components for Individual Species.