Previous researches about the use of Infrared cameras in education are presented. The first part is more focused on Physic applications. Different approaches are discussed like letting the students discovering phenomena by following a protocol or letting them discover it by themselves in an open-ended lab. The question about at which grade are Infrared cameras useful is also discussed. Then the second part deals with applications of Infrared cameras in Biology. It talks about many fields like plants and medicine for both humans and animals. After that, infrared pictures which were taken during biological phenomena exploration are presented and analyzed. It deals with some everyday biological phenomena and some explanations are given. To conclude, a presentation of some basic phenomena which are made viewable by the Infrared camera is done and some advantages and drawbacks of this device are explained.
This report was written during an internship at the Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University, under the supervision of Jesper Haglund