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How to Use a Compound Light Microscope to
View Biological Cells
Laboratory Exercise
Virtual Biology Classroom of Science Prof Online
MICROSCOPY LABORATORY POWERPOINT
- Lab #1: Basic Microscopy Lab PowerPoint Show
- Lab #1: Basic Microscopy Lab PowerPoint PDF Printout
Printing: The best way for students to print out the PowerPoint Show is to download the PDF version. Select Print, and, when the Print screen comes up, go to the Print Handling options. Under Page Scaling, select "Multiple pages per sheet", Under Pages per sheet, select "2". That uses up less paper, placing two slides on each page.
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9/2015
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MICROSCOPY LABORATORY IMAGES
The images linked here directly relate to the lab exercise and are designed to help students review and study that lab material while outside of lab.
VIDEO: How to Make a Wet Mount Slide of Elodea Plant Cells
VIDEO: How to Make a Wet Mount Slide of Stained Epithelial Cheek Cells
Microscopy & Biological Cells
This is the material used to supplement a general biology laboratory exercise on microscope use and viewing plant and animal cells. Find all of the materials available at Virtual Biology Classroom.
VIDEO: Tutorial on Compound Light Microscope Parts & Operation
MORE LINKS ON MICROSCOPE USE
- "How big is a...?" animation from Cells Alive.
- Resolving Power Line illustration of what can be seen with different microscopes from Nobelproze.org.
- Microscopic Measurement: How Big Is that Object in the Microscope? from VirtualUrchin.
- How to Use a Compound Microscope video by the TCCMediaCrew that is very helpful in reviewing what you learned about the microscope in lab.
- Light Microscopy Basics from the Beckman Institute.
- Microscope Mania crossword puzzle.
- Microscopic Pond Life Main Page: Observations, Activities & Guide to Tiny Freshwater Organisms from Science Prof Online.
- Microscopic Pond Life, an extremely cool collection of videos of a variety of microscopic pond life to the tune of Radiohead’s “Kid A”.
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED LAB READINGS
- What Is an Electron Microscope? TEM and SEM Basics
MICROSCOPY LAB VIDEOS
The these lab materials include:
- Laboratory PowerPoint
- Videos and photos of lab procedures
- Additional required lab readingsrequired lab readings
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Human cheek cells magnified 400xTM.
You have FREE access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory biology course. The Virtual Biology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions & Practice Test Questions.
Onion bulb skin cells 400xTM.
Elodea aquatic plant cells (photosynthetic cells) 400xTM.
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