Microscope

Q1:  What are the key parts of a microscope?

         - Eye piece lens

         - Objective lens

         - Neck

         - Stage clip

         - Course focus knob

         - Fine focus know

         - Stage

         - Light source

         - Switch

         - Base

Q2:  How did you set up your microscope and microscope slide?

How to set up a microscope

         1. Get a microscope

         2. Get a flashlight

         3. Open the flashlight and place it in the front of the concave mirror.

         4. Put your slide on the microscope.

How to set up a microscope slide

         1. Place the specimen in the middle of a clean slide.

         2. Add 2-3 drops of the stain solution.

         3. Holding a coverslip by its edges in your left hand, manoeuvre it so that the bottom edge of the 

             coverslip makes contact with both the slide and the edge of the stain solution.

         4. Gently lower the coverslip with the tweezers, ensuring that no air bubbles are trapped under the

             coverslip.

         5. Place your slide on the microscope stage and examine it under low-power magnification.

Q3: What did you observe down the microscope?

         - I saw that you need to be in a dark place in order to use the microscope because you won't be 

           able to see the cells if there's a light outside, but you need a flashlight to the concave mirror so 

           that there's light to see the cells.

Q4: What are key similarities and differences between plants and animal cell?

         - I didn't saw the animal cell because the slide that we did didn't work, but we are able to see
the plant cells. I noticed that the plant cell doesn't have many cells at all, but the

*Tell me about something that was discovered using a microscope.
         - We saw something that we can't see using our eyes only, but you can see somethings that you
            can't see in our eyes by using microscope
* Tell me about different types of microscope.