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.

An activity to show how microscopes are used to reveal biodiversity.

This interactive diagram helps students memorize the parts of a light 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.

A technical site that describes different types of microscopes and delves into the chemical makeup of milk, yogurt, various various types of microorganisms. Impressive pictures supplement the text. Links to images of microorganisms.

An activity where students can use the interactive diagram to label the major parts of a microscope.

With this simple stain, students can observe the shape of yeast and bacteria under the microscope. Lesson plan gives a lab procedure, teacher instructions, points for discussion, and additional activities. Lab does require the purchase...

The tutorial examines ethical questions in science. Topics explored are evidence, social influences, experimenter effect, and understanding the math behind the science. The resource consists of articles, videos, and activities.

This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) activity explores the controversy over whether or not there is life on Mars. Part of the Mysteries of Deep Space Program that originally aired in April 1997, the activity includes instructional...

This interactive website about microscopes and microbes provides students with an introduction to cellular biology.

Zebrafish are used to study heart abnormalities. This lesson plan helps students understand how and why they are important scientific models. Includes handouts.

Using model organisms is very important in scientific research. This lesson plan will help students see why the zebrafish, sea urchin, and fruit fly are commonly used.

Guidelines for an activity through which you, acting as a research assistant for a wine merchant, work to grow a microbe under different conditions.

Site is simply a picture of a microscope that has numbers that correspond with each part of it. No answers are provided. A good reproducible if you are looking for a detailed view of the different microscope parts.

Site is a brief test teachers can use to assess student knowledge of a microscope. No answers are provided.

A drawing and measuring activity to give students an appreciation of magnitude in powers of ten, and of microscopes. Students draw themselves and an object life-size, and then examine smaller and smaller pieces of their picture.

Site provides six possible center activities for teachers to use to engage students in the study of cells.

In this activity, students design and build neuron models based on observations made while viewing neurons through a microscope.

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...

Extensive site for teachers provides some helpful resources that pertain to plant and animal cells. Includes a microscope diagram as well as plant, animal and pond labs. Also contains links to structures and mechanisms, matter and...

Use this series of images depicting the process of mitosis in the early embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster to make a mitosis flipbook. In this stage of Drosophila development, nuclei divide very rapidly without cell...

In this activity, students create slides of plant cells and observe them under a microscope. The lesson and PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. The included instructional video on cell observation is 20 min. 44 sec.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cells make up all living things but not all cells look alike. This activity introduces cells, cell theory, and the levels of organization in organisms.

Young scholars are introduced to the latest imaging methods used to visualize molecular structures and the method of electrophoresis that is used to identify and compare genetic code (DNA). Students should already have basic knowledge of...