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Table of Contents
What's Included in Your Microscope Kit
What You Should Know
A word to the parents and supervising adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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I See Something That You Don't See
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Your New Microscope
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The Basic Equipment
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Cells — If You Know One, Do You Know Them All?
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Life in a Shoebox — The Plant Cell
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Absolute Power
About starch in plant cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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The World on a Tiny Scale
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Food Detectives on the Case
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The Vast Kingdom of the Insects
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Mushrooms: Plants or Animals?
11
How Does Water Get into a Watermelon?
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Bionics — Ingenious Phenomena of Nature
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Leaf-by-Leaf Task Distribution
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Hair-Raising Sites
Animal and plant hairs under the microscope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Even Smaller and Finer
What's Included in Your Microscope Kit
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Microscope, with ocular lens
(Caution! The ocular lens sits
loosely. Heed the tip on page 5)
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Plastic box with:
• Permanent prepared slide of
sodium chloride crystals
• Permanent prepared slide of
pollen grains
• Permanent prepared slide of
paramecia
• Permanent prepared slide of
oral mucous membrane cells
• Special slide with concave
trough
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Plastic box with 5 slides
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Plastic box with cover slips
5
Pipette
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Tweezers
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Dissecting needle
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Scalpel (Caution! Follow the
safety tips on pages 3 and 10)
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Petri dish with cover
10
Blue stain (Brilliant Blue FCF)
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Red stain (Ponceau 4R)
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Adhesive labels for your own
prepared slides
13
Lens cleaning paper
14
Dust cover for the microscope
(not shown)
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Experiment book (not shown)
Also required: Three 1.5 volt AA batteries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the microscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The preparation accessories and other things you'll need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Preparation of plant objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
About single- and multi-cell organisms in a water drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About pollen in honey and salt crystals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
How to study wings, legs, and mouthparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Amazing facts about mushrooms and their fruiting bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Absorption and water transport in plant cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Coaching in high-rise construction and other tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The structure of leaves and tasks of the tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
About electron microscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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In the event of missing or defective parts, please contact technical support by
phone at 1-800-587-2872 or by e-mail at support@thamesandkosmos.com.
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Simple preparations of animal and plant cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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