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Microscope Projects
(Monocular Microscope Projects)
Project 1: Onion Cells
Video showing how to prepare a slide to obtain onion cells.. Click on image to play video. Preparing the slide.
Project 1 Onion Cells
Video showing results you should see when staining an onion skin. Click on image to play video. Results.
This video helps you understand the results you should get after preparing a piece of onion skin and looking at it under a monocular microscope. In our project, we stained the skin with iodine, but you could have equally used Methylene Blue instead.
Shows Large cells and nucleus
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Project 2: Starch In Potatoes
Video showing how to prepare a slide to obtain potato cells. Click on image to play video. Preparing the slide.
This video helps you understand how to obtain a slice of potato, stain it and mount it on a slide ready to view. If you are young, it might be best to get a parent to cut the potato for you.
Shows how to get cells containing starch grains.
Project 2 Starch In Potatoes
Video showing results you should see when staining a potato slice. Click on image to play video. Results.
This video helps you understand the results you should get after preparing a slice of potato and looking at it under a monocular microscope. In our project, we stained the skin with iodine, and also tried Methylene Blue as well.
Shows Starch grains in cells.
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Project 3- Part 1: Cheek Cells
Video showing how to obtain cheek cells and stain them. Click on image
to play video. Preparing the slide.
This video helps you understand how to obtain cheek cells, stain them, and mount them on a slide ready to view.
Shows how to obtain cheek cells and mouth bacteria
Be wary to not get Methylene Blue in your mouth.
Project 3- Part 1: Cheek Cells
Video showing results you should see after obtaning and staining cheek cells. Click on image to play video. Results.
This video helps you understand the results you should get after preparing a slide with cheek cells,
Shows viewing of cheek cells and bacteria
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Project 3- Part 2: Cheek Cells & slide making
Video showing how to make semi-permanent slides with fructose as a mounting medium and securing your cheek cells and other specimens in the mountant for viewing later. Click on image to play video. Preparing the slide. Preparing the slide.
This video helps you understand how to make semi-permanent slides easily and cheaply without using dangerous chemicals.
Shows step-by-step how to make Well Slides using PVA glue.
Project 3- Part 2: Cheek Cells & slide making using Fructose.
Video showing how to make semi-permanent slides with fructose as a mounting medium and securing your cheek cells and other specimens in the mountant for viewing later. Click on image to play video. Preparing the slide. Results.
This video helps you understand the kind of results you get using fructose as a mounting medium to keep specimens for a few years. Shows a form of slide making results including the nettle section mounted 23 years ago.
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Project 4- Making a cross-polar device and viewing with it
Make cross polar illumination for your microscope for less than £10.000
This video helps you to make cheap cross-polar illumination or your microscope and shows you how to prepare a slide or two for viewing with it.
Project 4- Making a cross-polar device and viewing with it
Video of sugar, salt, plant hair, aspirin viewed with cross-polar and non-polarised light.
Results.
Compare your results with mine using cross-polars
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Project 5- Exploring one-celled water life.
Video of making well slides
This video helps you make deep 'well' slides so you don't need to buy them.
This is for putting samples of water life in them to view.
Project 5- Exploring one-celled water life.
Video of multi-celled and one-celled water life.
Results
Compare your water samples with mine.
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Project 6- Looking at Bees and undertanding them. Further references: Norfolk Honey Company [off-site]