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Curated OER

Using a Compound Microscope (Photo by Paul Billiet)

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
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Curated OER

Compound Microscope Showing the Stage and Spring Clips

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is a step by step instructions on how to use a microscope. Begins with the proper way to get the microscope and ends with putting the microscope. The correct way to look at slides and care for you microscope are also discussed....
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A Compound Microscope

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Ntnu Virtual Physics Lab: Thin Lens Combination

For Students 9th - 10th
A Java applet which allows the user to emulate a refracting telescope and a light microscope. This is a great site to get information on the subject and better understand it through diagrams and charts.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Gerd Binnig

For Students 9th - 10th
Gerd Binnig co-developed the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with Heinrich Rohrer. The STM allowed scientists entry into the atomic world in a new way and was a major advance in the field of nanotechnology. For their achievement,...
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University of Missouri

Microbes in Action: Classroom Activities: Simple Staining of Microbes [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Heinrich Rohrer

For Students 9th - 10th
Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a non-optical instrument that allows the observation of individual atoms in three dimensions, with Gerd Binnig. The achievement garnered the pair half...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1930 1939

For Students 9th - 10th
New tools such as special microscopes and the cyclotron take research to higher levels, while average citizens enjoy novel amenities such as the FM radio.
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Other

University of Western Australia: Blue Histology

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent, in-depth examination of the integumentary system and its components. Includes many color microscopic images of these structures and more.
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Other

University of Western Australia: Integumentary System

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource for advanced anatomy and physiology classes. It contains information on the integumentary system, the epidermis, the dermis, hair, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands. Microscopic images are included.
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Activity
Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Direct Observation of Yeast Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this classroom lab experiment, students mimic optimal growth conditions for yeast, and with the help of a microscope, observe and record results using a cell counting method.
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Curated OER

Ntnu Virtual Physics Lab: Thin Lens Combination

For Students 9th - 10th
A Java applet which allows the user to emulate a refracting telescope and a light microscope. This is a great site to get information on the subject and better understand it through diagrams and charts.
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Pollen Collection [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about what pollen is, its health effects, as well as how it benefits humans, students take part in a lab activity. For this, they collect schoolyard pollen on slides, stain it, and then examine it under a microscope.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Asbestos Hazard Assessment

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site introduces students to concepts related to asbestos and how geologists analyze asbestos in building materials. The site is divided into three components: the geology of asbestos, identifying asbestos in the lab, and...
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Curated OER

Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888 1983), Sitting in Lab With Microscope

For Students 9th - 10th
A well-known authority on the anatomy of the brain, Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888-1983) was first woman to receive a full professorship at the University of Michigan Medical School and was a recipient of the National Medal of Science...
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Other

Lcs: Electrolysis of Silver Nitrate Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete directions for a teacher demonstration in which the electrolysis of a solution of silver nitrate is viewed under a microscope. Helpful tips and a diagram of the apparatus and set-up is provided. Easily adaptable as a student lab...
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My Science Site

My Science Site: Cell Center Activities [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Site provides six possible center activities for teachers to use to engage students in the study of cells.

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