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Grade Range
4th - 6th
Rating
5 Stars

Students review slide samples take with a scanning electron microscope. They use a virtual electron microscope and their knowledge of cell structure to identify images shown to them. They discuss their observations. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 7th
Rating
4 Stars

Students examine and investigate the parts of a microscope. They label a diagram of a microscope, complete a worksheet, and create a wet mount slide of an onion skin. Full Review »

Grade Range
5th - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

Students make a microscope from a drop of water, learn the basic parts and functions of a compound microscope, prepare wet mount slides and view them under a microscope, and calculate magnification and field of view. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 5th
Rating
3 Stars

Students participate in hands-on activities with prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses. They observe that light travels in wave form and identify the colors of the rainbow as different wavelengths. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 11th
Rating
3 Stars

Students explore the use of microscopes and the creation of slides. They practice using, adjusting and viewing with a microscope. they view slides of familiar substances such as blood and fibers. In addition, they create slides using onions and cheek cells. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten - 2nd
Rating
3 Stars

Students will participate in a hands-on discovery of the life cycle of a monarch and a painted lady butterfly. They observe the egg, caterpillar, pupa and adult stages fo these butterflies. They will learn about the larval host and nectar source plants of butterflies. Cooperativey, they work create a class slide show of 5 Florida butterflies and their host plants. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students take measurements of the distance between the objective and the slide when in focus with each objective. They determine the diameter of the field of view at each power in order to determine the size of the cells being observed. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th
Rating
4 Stars

Students use a spring scale to drag an object such as a ceramic coffee cup along a table top or the floor. The spring scale allows them to measure the frictional force that exists between the moving cup and the surface it slides on. By modifying the bottom surface of the cup, students can find out what kinds of surfaces generate more or less friction. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten
Rating
3 Stars

Students examine white powders with hand lenses in this lesson. They use their sense of taste to identify four edible white substances -- rock salt, cornstarch, barking soda, and powdered sugar. They then view the white powders under the microscope. Full Review »

Grade Range
4th - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

Students explore the ways in which satellite images provide details of the Earth's surface and how they are capable of taking digital images of the Earth from space they vary in resolution and breadth. They view how cameras and lenses can magnify the field of view seen by a satellite. Full Review »