the microscopic world (original) (raw)

Today my students are doing a lab using protists and fungi. They're looking at organisms under the microscope, drawing what they see, and identifying structures we talked about it class.

I have one student in my eighth period who is severly visually impaired. I enlarge everything for her. When I was enlarging the lab I realized that she probably couldn't look through the scope, so she couldn't really do the lab. I gave her a choice of using a fellow student's drawings or just having me draw the organisms so she could answer the questions. She wanted me to draw them. I simply don't do them justice, and my drawings have no color. It made me really sad to think that she'll probably never get to look in a microscope and see all the cool stuff down there. Watching it on video just isn't the same.

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