INVESTIGATING WITH MICROSCOPES

We have different types of microscopes at the Science Lab:

OPTICAL MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

OPTICAL MICROSCOPE WITH MIRROR SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

Students worked in pairs to carry out two different tasks:

TASK 1

Choose two animal samples and two human samples. Observe them with the binocular microscope and draw your observations in the sheet below.

TASK 2

Choose one sample. Observe it with the different magnification objectives and draw what you see in the observation sheet.

SAMPLES

YEAR 5 C