Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Area Science Teachers Gather for Training.
Middle School Science teachers from the coalfield counties of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia gathered Monday at Pike Central High school for training on how to use new digital microscopes.
Different coal companies purchased 200 of these new digital microscopes at a cost of $80 a piece. The microscopes will be distributed to science classes in middle schools in the coal producing counties of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia.
Instructors from the University of Kentucky provided the training.
John Yopp, Director of the Appalachian Math and Science Partnership and Associate Provost at UK, told us that the scopes can go from 10 power to 200. it allows the students what they see under the scope on a computer screen.
Yopp says that several of the professors at UK have purchased these digital microscopes for their classes.
Different coal companies purchased 200 of these new digital microscopes at a cost of $80 a piece. The microscopes will be distributed to science classes in middle schools in the coal producing counties of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia.
Instructors from the University of Kentucky provided the training.
John Yopp, Director of the Appalachian Math and Science Partnership and Associate Provost at UK, told us that the scopes can go from 10 power to 200. it allows the students what they see under the scope on a computer screen.
Yopp says that several of the professors at UK have purchased these digital microscopes for their classes.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 2:40 PM 
