Tuesday 8.31.10

    Today we learned all of the parts on the new microscopes, we also learned how to move the stage back and forth, side to side, and up and down. There are three different objectives on a microscope, so basically three lenses you could choose to look through, we learned how to focus the image when we changed lenses. Today we also used the microscopes to get a better look at what was on the slides. We could have looked at pond water, insects, human lice, paraphemelias, and many more. Once we looked at the slide we had to make a scetch on what we saw in our unit packet.  

    Last year in science we had a unit on microscopes and all of there different parts. So most of the words involved with microscopes seem very familiar to me. 

Here is a picture of a microscope

with all of the parts labeled.