Junior Microscope Review and Free Instant Work Pages PDF

Miss Owl reviewed a high-quality junior microscope with three industry-standard magnification levels, 3 AA batteries included, 2 lights, prepared slides, materials to prepare her own slides, handouts, ideas, and more. First, here is a YouTube video about the experience.

 
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Certain words have been frequently discussed lately, at home and on the news. “Virus” and “germ” are mentioned frequently. Miss Owl was wondering how doctors knew what a virus was, and this opened a discussion about the microscope. Her experience with the junior microscope helped introduce her to this tiny world. Of course, it would take an electron microscope to see a virus, but she can learn the basic idea.

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This is called the “ultimate kids microscope” for good reasons. It is a real compound microscope. There is are EZ focus knobs for fine-tuning. It has 2-in-1 top and bottom LED Lighting for slides or solid objects. The product includes “The Amazing Microscope Adventures” experiment cards with ideas to get started.

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Materials are included so children may prepare and examine their own slides. Miss Owl wanted to see what one of her hairs looked like when magnified. What a surprise!

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Three AA batteries are included in the microscope product contents, and so it can be used anywhere — even outdoors. What is so nice about using a microscope outdoors is that grass, leaves, dead bugs, and other nature items do not have to be dragged inside the house for observation.

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It is easy to switch magnification levels and see how specimens look under different lenses. The lenses are high-grade precision glass optics for clear viewing

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Here are two microscope work pages for children to record their observations, and learn about parts of a microscope. Just click on the link below and download your copy.

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Thank you for reading! The Junior Microscope is on Microscope.com. There are all sorts of extra slides and materials that can be purchased. They even have a camera for the microscope! I hope you found this information helpful.

Carolyn & Miss Owl

 

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Proper Use of Microscopes

Our introductory lab on microscope usage and slide preparation will have your student viewing specimen like an old pro.

STUDENTS WILL:

  • Learn the parts of a compound light microscope, how to use the different objective lenses and what not to do with a microscope
  • Practice what they learn when they view a newspaper “e” under low, medium, and high power
  • Draw what they view under the microscope
  • Gain an understanding of how microscopes flip the image upside down

    By Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy

 
  
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Free for grades 7 and up — Lab: Looking at Cells

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TEACHING TIP: Each student/lab group will need to look at 3 different cells, if you don’t have enough slides of each type to give each group, set up stations and have students rotate! You could even have more than one animal cell/plant cell/bacterial cell stations to avoid students waiting on each other!

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