Microscopes!

Today!!!! ....and yesterday we played with the microscopes. We looked at pond water, foam, fruit loops, mandarin orange juice, plant leaves, and most exciting..... SOAP!!! Yes, that's right, soap! Hand-pumped, school soap! Here's a picture:

This activity was pretty cool because we got practice learning how to use the microscope like focusing it, playing with the magnification for each different substance, and learning not to put your eye up to the hole and then turning the light on (it can blind you.)

I really liked this activity because we got to use our imaginations on what to look at, but still got useful practice in using the microscopes.