Microscopy outreach

Resources for teachers, parents and educators.

• The Table top SEM program at the University of Oregon provides a portable table-top scanning electron microscope for teaching hands-on science in middle and high schools.
• A Hitachi High Technologies America sponsored outreach program for the promotion of science, technology, engineering and math education.
• Microscopy UK, the home of enthusiast microscopy on the web.
• BIOBUS, science education for social change.
• A listing of high schools with scanning electron microscopes.
• The Bugscope Project enables live interactive control of an FEI ESEM microscope.
• The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing.
• Project Micro puts Microscopy Society of America members, teaching materials, and microscopes in middle school classrooms nationwide.
• The Royal Microscopical Society has an outreach program whose objective is to build relationships and encourage dialogue with every organisation and individual with an interest in microscopy and imaging.
• NASA's Virtual Lab is a free, downloadable, CD-ROM-based program providing virtual access to a variety of sophisticated scientific instruments.
• The GEMS program develops and publishes science and math curriculum, offers professional development, and maintains an international support network.