Yippee! Ellen McHenry's Cells.

Chapter 1: How did we find out about cells?

Here's the video for the workshop: Lens on Leeuwenhoek. For Hooke, Brown, and Schwann and Schleiden's Cell Theory, try this video. It's very accessible.

Other videos which may be of use: Discovery of cells. Four laws of living organisms. Cell rap.

Ellen recommends this video on SEM technology; and this video for TEM technology.

On magnification and scale in general, Ditta recommends the classic short film Powers of Ten (1968) by Charles and Ray Eames, and the game Scale of the Universe.

Science's ten most beautiful experiments.

Soon we'll join the local group to help each other get to grips with the cell.

In preparation, let's research. Go to the Harvard multimedia website for a biovision.

Click around the site; there is an option to listen to the explanatory talk, rather than hear the music. (It's a different language, but one that we can begin to understand, right?)

Brownian Motion. Find out about it by watching these videos:

National Stem Centre (And if you want to find out what other science videos they do, visit here. Thanks to Big Mamma Frog)

Explanation on Youtube.

Evolution site from pbs.

The link above takes you to a dive window.

Click on the options to the right-hand side to visit different places. Tell me which pages are particularly interesting to you, or you consider are well presented.

(I went off to read Darwin's Diary and resolved again to visit Down House.)