• Connects easily to a PC (compatible with interactive whiteboards)
• Does not require purchase of batteries
• Provides high-quality images that captivate students
• Positions easily to view even hard-to-see objects
• Investigate items previously impossible to look at through traditional digital microscopes
• Encourages discovery -- students can explore an object with both hands
• Illuminate dark settings or objects
• Allow students to record and describe their investigations and inquiries
• Is ideal for assessment and boosts students' 21st century skills
• Download to your computer or upload to your class website, virtual learning network or assessment files
• Designed for ease of use by primary and secondary students, and busy teachers
• Transports easily from one side of the classroom to another
• Plug in an adaptive device to assist students with special needs
• Includes measurement software so students can make measurements and add dimensions to captured images

• USB direct plug for connecting and charging
  
• Resolution: true 1.3M pixels
  
• 1.2M pixel CMOS sensor
  
• 10x to 200x magnification (approximate -- maximum depends on screen)
  
• 15 fps frame rate
  
• Bendable gooseneck (15 3/4" L)
  
• 6 LED lights
• Built in camera and microphone
  
• Controls include LED light, on / off button and snapshot button (on base)
  
• Compact size, yet steady focusing
• Sen switch jack
• Windows XP or Vista compatible
  

Examples of Uses for Twist™ Flexible Digital Microscope

General

• Document student learning for formative assessment. Use the built-in microphone to record student thinking. Share files with specialists, other educators, or parents.
• Conduct a quiz / test -- ask students to identify a specimen or parts of a specimen.
• Make student-created multimedia presentations.
• Improve cooperation and social skills as students work together in groups.

Early Childhood and Special Needs

• Observe and explore objects from our natural world, including our own bodies, such as skin or hair.
• Use the built-in microphone as students describe and compare an object's attributes by using basic adjectives, color and size words, etc.
• Draw a picture to recreate an image or color in parts of a printed image to highlight parts of a specimen.
• Use motor skills and explore cause and effect by correctly positioning and focusing Twist™. Its steady base provides stability.
• Utilize the SEN switch jack to plug in an adaptive device for students with severe motor difficulties.

Language Arts

• Label and write descriptions of specimen in captured photos. Use correct grammar, mechanics, and science vocabulary.
  
• Write, narrate and record a multimedia presentation that includes captured microscopic images / video with sound.
• Create and give an oral presentation that utilizes captured microscopic images / video with sound.
  

Math

• Use included measurement software to estimate, take, compare and record measurements of specimen.
  
• Identify attributes, describe, compare, order and sort / classify specimen.
• Find microscopic evidence of symmetry in nature.
• Collect and record data on specimen.
• use the built-in microphone to narrate and record mathematical thinking about specimen.

Science and Social Studies

• Demonstrate, narrate and record scientific thinking, including understanding of "big idea" concepts.
  
• Model an investigation for the whole class. Observe in high magnification and record descriptions.
• Capture and narrate video as live specimen move.
• Illustrate and narrate / explain the steps in a common process.
• Design and perform an inquiry. Students use the built-in microphone as they ask and answer questions.
• Identify, describe, compare and classify objects or specimen by characteristics viewed in high or low magnification.
• View down inside concave objects bu using the flexible gooseneck.
• Collect and record data on specimen.
• Use or demonstrate measurement tools.