Science Education Journal

A class lecture is a traditional teaching methodology. In a day, there are several subjects to be completed so it is non sense to expect students sitting and listening to the teacher only. Research done on student boredom shows that 60% of students find their lectures boring and half of these confessed that all lectures were similarly boring. It happens also in biology lectures. One sided approach is tedious. The teacher does all the talking and fire questions in the middle of nowhere and there’s hell to pay when a student can’t give the correct answer. Visuals aids can put some life into the lectures and the microscope can do more than the visual aid to help students understand the mysteries of cellular division or the characteristics of microorganisms. The compound microscope in lab supplies the need with adding camera and video systems.

Studying living organisms under the microscope tends to be boring also if they students do not know how to handle the controls and sees nothing interesting through the eyepiece. They should master the parts of the microscope and learn how each part works and these are manipulated or controlled. Basically, it is easy to handle a compound microscope. There are several types of compound microscopes and students should be able to know how to use the upright and inverted microscopes to appreciate their different uses in lab research. Students should be given the chance to see specimens from different high-powered microscopes, including the polarized light microscope for different applications – tool making, nanoelectronics, textiles, and minerals.

School may send an inquire letter to compound microscopes dealer. The dealer will happily give demos of the different microscopes to a class. Truly, this method will blow students interest in biology and other research fields. This request might not be entertained but if it is, teaching biology would be more effective and listening to biology lectures would not be too much of a bore.