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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
The Foldscope
Judith A. Bazler, Meta VanSickle, Carleigh Engstrom
(Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey and College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Abstract: Manu Prakash at Stanford University invented the foldscope, two years ago, for use in remote areas to identify disease organisms. The foldscope is an optical microscope composed of paper and a lens and costs 50 cents to manufacture. A pre-service science teacher with her supervising professor used the foldscope for fieldwork at Sandy Hook New Jersey on both the bay and ocean side of this national park. A sampling of both sides of Sandy Hook New Jersey, bay side and ocean side, was done to determine the usability of the foldscope in the field component of coursework and additionally for use in a science classroom.
Key words: microscope, optics
