Short answer: use prepared slides when you want a specimen that is ready to view and easy to revisit. Use blank slides when the activity is learning how to collect, mount, and observe a specimen yourself. Many beginners benefit from having both. This guide is for home learners, students, and first-time microscope owners using a…
Category: Microscope Slides
Best Compound Microscopes for Students – Holiday Shopping Guide
The holiday shopping season is nearly upon is, and as I always recommend if you’re looking into a compound microscope as a gift, be sure you’re getting one of the best compound microscopes for your student. By best, we mean best in quality for a given price point, features, and included goodies–and be sure to…
Microscope Experiment Ideas for Summer Vacation (Part 1 – Beach Day!)
Microscope experiment ideas for Summer? Kids learning on their break? Unheard of! At least, back in my day it was–more and more I’m hearing from parents and sometimes children (with parent supervision) that they are interested in scientific inquiry, and want microscope experiment ideas to do together. Well, we’re now sitting here at the beginning…
AmScope Toy Microscope Review – “M30-ABS-KT2-W” Metal Body Optical Lens Kids Student Beginner Biological Microscope Kit Review
To continue on our beginner microscope information week, let’s take a look at a package designed for young audiences to get their first look into the world of microscopy–an AmScope microscope. AmScope has their lowest cost, entry level microscope option setup as an all inclusive package, and one of their only whole packages that includes…
Omax Microscope Slides Starter Kit Review – “CS-A96AA50-SCLP100”
Update: Unfortunately it looks like this mixed prepared/unprepared slide kit is no longer available from Omax. The closest replacement will be this IQCrew by AmScope slide preparation kit here. All links updated to point here instead as it has what this set had plus preparatory tools! Something a bit different from the normal take here…