Curated OER
Secret Agents of Dissolved Oxygen
Students determine the changes in different types of water in a sealed container over time. They investigate how to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, and carbon dioxide with calculator or computer probe-ware. Students determine the...
Curated OER
Mystery Card 3
Students will make a circuit on a mystery card. They will connect wires, bulbs, and battery to form an electrical tester. After students learn how to make one following the directions, they can create their own mystery card by...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Light Microscope vs Electron Microscope: A Comparison
Looks at the differences and similarities between a light microscope and an electron microscope. Discusses their structure, how images are formed, their resolution and magnification, how color is manifested, their portability, cost, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Light Microscope
This is a Microscope Internet Lab that can be used as a virtual lab for a whole class or as a make-up lab. The virtual microscope is a little more complicated than the microscope that is used in the labs but it will not be difficult to...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Microscopes Help Scientists Explore Hidden Worlds
This is a site full of information about various microscopes and the objects and processes scientists study with them. Includes timelines and interactive simulations.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Study of the Microscope and Its Functions
Uses illustrations with labels to complement a detailed examination of the parts and functions of a light microscope and an electron microscope.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Microscope
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department provides a discussion of how light refracts through the lenses of a microscope. Demonstrates the parts of a microscope and includes an interactive form in which the magnifying...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Microscopy Primer: Anatomy of the Microscope
The premier web site on the physics of microscopy. Includes several pages and numerous Java applets about microscopes and refraction. Thorough, well-illustrated, interactive, fun, and educational. What more can one ask for?
Other
University of Delaware: Virtual Compound Microscope
This virtual microscope is ideal for learning how to properly use a microscope. Users can turn knobs and dials, throw switches, move levers, change lenses, select a specimen, and adjust oculars. Watch the seven minute video for an...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Microscope | Hobby Shop
In this activity, students use a virtual biology lab to perform investigations and learn lab procedures using compound and dissecting microscopes to look at a variety of animal and plant cells.
Biology Corner
Biology Corner: Microscope Parts Quiz
This interactive diagram helps students memorize the parts of a light microscope.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Microscopes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A microscope is a tool used to make things that are too small to be seen by the human eye look bigger. Before microscopes were invented in 1595, the smallest things...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Types of Microscopes
A program will help students determine differences and similarities of the structure and function of compound light microscopes, dissecting microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and transmitting electron microscopes.
Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Museo Galileo: Multimedia: Origin and Development of the Microscope
A video describing the development of the light microscope, from the compound microscopes that consisted of two or more lenses to the simple microscope, which contained only one lens.
Other
Usda: Virtual Labs: How to Use Oil Immersion Microscope
In this science simulation, students learn how to use a microscope as they investigate bacterial contamination in a sample of yogurt.
University of Maryland
Optics Highlights: The Microscope
Part of an anecdotal history of optics and the study of light. Extremely thorough treatment of the scientific findings and developments which led to the invention and refinement of the microscope. Includes a short biographical sketch and...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Imaging Technology Group: Virtual Microscope
After a free download, the Virtual Microscope simulates the experience of using an electron, light and scanning probe microscope. The microscope basics are also explained through a series of animations.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Observing Different Microbes
Learners prepare slides of and examine three types of common microbes using a light microscope, recording what they observe. The lesson plan and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying instructional video is 22 min....
Other
Bsi Education: Microscopy
The Applied Science resource consists of practical activities that demonstrate the importance of standard procedures in scientific work. Students examine types of microscopes through a variety of activities. Some topics investigated are...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station: What's the Size of What You See?
In this lesson, you use microscope images to show how to use scale bars to measure very small things.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station: Elodea Explorations
In this lesson, students will investigate plant cells and microscope measurement together by using Elodea plants.
City University of New York
Cell Biology: An Interactive Journey
This interactive website about microscopes and microbes provides students with an introduction to cellular biology.
Other
Microscope Master: How to Use a Microscope
This website gives detailed step-by-step instructions on how to use and adjust a compound microscope.