Uses illustrations with labels to complement a detailed examination of the parts and functions of a light microscope and an electron microscope.

Microscope pioneer and amateur scientist Leeuwenhoek built a number of tiny microscopes with a variety of lenses.

These microscope activities provide students with lots to explore. Activities include the characteristics of living things, math in science, cell biology, genetics, physiology, and mitosis.

Students learn about the renal structures that conduct the essential work of the kidneys and cannot be seen by the naked eye.

In this geology course, students learn about the use of the polarizing microscope, the primary tool for examining the structure of mineral samples such as cleavage, density, fracture, color, and the like.

See how an enhancement of a microscopic image can change and improve its appearance.

This site from the University of North Carolina takes you through the research being done at Univ. of North Carolina with SPM. Includes an introduction to scanning probe microscope.

Microscopic gallery of various organisms and objects.

The invention of magnifiers that allow us to see things that are otherwise invisible to us has revolutionized science. In this lesson, middle schoolers use several types of magnifiers to investigate magnification, and record their...

Gerd Binnig co-developed the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with Heinrich Rohrer. The STM allowed scientists entry into the atomic world in a new way and was a major advance in the field of nanotechnology. For their achievement,...

How do we see things too small to be detected by the human eye? What about things inside our own bodies? Dee Breger uses a scanning electron microscope to give us a glimpse of images including blood clots, thyroid glands, and lungs with...

An animation of a scanning tunneling microscope, STM, image of a quantum stadium corral made of iron atoms on a copper surace.

As we walk through our daily environments, we're surrounded by exotic creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye. We usually imagine these microscopic organisms, or microbes, as asocial cells that float around by themselves....

Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a non-optical instrument that allows the observation of individual atoms in three dimensions, with Gerd Binnig. The achievement garnered the pair half...

Learn about the life and work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope, and considered to be the first microbiologist.

Guidelines for an activity through which you, acting as a research assistant for a wine merchant, work to grow a microbe under different conditions.

A description of the three different types of microscopy: light, transmission electron, and scanning electron

An excellent review of this important man in science who went unnoticed for so many years.

In this classroom lab experiment, students mimic optimal growth conditions for yeast, and with the help of a microscope, observe and record results using a cell counting method.

This is an article published by the American Physical Society on friction in microscopic gears that results from the adhesion of molecules. A great exploration of this new obstacle in science.

Microbiologists spend their careers peering through microscopes in their study of microorganisms. They have plenty to look at since these are Earth's most common life-forms. Science Buddies outlines the education requirements as well as...

A resource for advanced anatomy and physiology classes. It contains information on the integumentary system, the epidermis, the dermis, hair, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands. Microscopic images are included.

Examine some of the rock samples gathered by the Apollo lunar missions.

Lichens thrive in common and in very specialized and inhospitable climates. This clickable index site offers text and photographs of desert and mountain lichens.