In these succeeding activities, we familiarized ourselves with our newly-arrived compound microscope. We got excited with all the possibilities and discoveries we shall experience using it.
Our first activity was to learn how to prepare a wet-mount slide and observe that slide using the microscope.
Activity 1:
* Cut a small letter "g" from the newspaper and place it at the center of the glass slide. Newspaper works best for this activity as it is fairly thin and allows light to pass through it for easier observation on the microscope.
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| Drawing what we saw: top - magnification @ 4/0.16x; below - magnification @ 10/0.25x |
Activity 2:
We did the same for a piece of blue thread and Gia's hair.
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| Blue thread mounted on a slide |
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| @ High magnification: 10/0.25x |
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| Hair at low magnification: 4/0.16x |
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| Hair at high magnification: 10/0.25x |
Awesome first tries, right? Can't wait for the next experiments.
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