Scale Plan activity

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On the 2nd October, nine intrepid Forensic Science BND students completed this task in a rustic portakabin beyond the car park.

In no particular order....

Discussing why the windows plus the spaces between them add up to more than the wall

Spot the management

Checking the measurements

Note: I had to alter the colour balance on the last photo as Laura's hair came out light green. The simple digital camera I was using had been fooled by the light from the window so anything under the fluorescent lights looked yellowy green in comparison. Ask about 'colour temperature' of lighting if you are interested.

And sketch plans as work in progress...

Macro pic of A4 sketch plan

sketch plan

Sketch plan - I cut the edges off this one

And finally, I put a prepared slide in my beat up old school microscope and tried my little digital camera down the eyepiece, just hand held. After three goes I got a reasonable image... It's 'Phycomycetae Clubroot in Cabbage Root section' with a stain to bring out the cell walls.

Onion cell down a microscope at 40x with digicam

Paul S is looking into this for microscope work.

Keith Burnett
Last modified: 2003-10-14