Microscope Webquest

 

Directions

1. Take out a piece of notebook paper.
2. Title the paper MICROSCOPES WEBQUEST
3. Make sure you have your name, date, and class period on the top.
4. Number and answer each question.
5. Use the links to find the answers.

 

Start here - Microscope History
1. Who was the first man to make and use a real microscope?
2. How many lenses does a compound microscope have?

 

3. Go to the The Virtual Scope and practice using the microscope. What did you like or not like about this site?

 

4. Practice labeling the microscope here. How many did you get correct on the first time?

 

5. Practice using an online digital microscope here Draw a picture of the 3 year old stem (hint - it is plant tissue).

Go to the Scanning Electron Microscope Click on HOW THE SEM Works.Then View the Slide show then answer the following questions.

6. What do scanning electron microscopes use to magnify their images?
7. What is one benefit to using a SEM as opposed the light microscopes we use in our classroom?
8. What do scientists coat the specimen with that they are looking at so the specimen becomes so they will conduct electricity?

 

9. Try to correctly match all 10 SEM images at SEM Images. List your score out of 10 that you got correct. Which image was the most interesting?
 

 

 

10. Check out the images at the Magnification Module - List which sample and at which power of magnification you thought was the most interesting.
 

 

11. Now look at images from a stereoscope at Stereoscopic Zoom. List which specimen you thought was the most interesting to look at.
 

 

 

12. Look at the images here. What color are the zebra fish cells?

 

13. Make a list from 1-24. Without looking at the answers, guess what the mystery pictures are. Once you are done - click on the answers and see how well you did. Write your score out of 24. (These are the same pictures from the Microscope Stations)

 

 

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