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.

Explore the effect of increasing the magnification on a microscope when viewing various samples such as onion root mitosis.

Create and use a pinhole magnifier.

This website gives detailed step-by-step instructions on how to use and adjust a compound microscope.

Learn how to calculate the total magnification of a microscope on this concise site. Links to making a slide, questions on the use of the microscope, and other related microscope topics are included on this site.

This site explores the microscope in great detail. Content includes a focus on the microscope's basic functions (including a general diagram), the history of the microscope, each feature of the microscope, differing objectives,...

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Site provides a helpful word search teachers can use to help their students familiarize themselves with a microscope and have some fun at the same time.

Learn how to calculate the total magnification of a microscope on this concise site. Links to making a slide, questions on the use of the microscope, and other related microscope topics are included on this site.