What is Life and Microscope

Objectives

1. Assess whether an object is either living or non-living

2. List the characteristics of life.

3. Differentiate between living, non-living, dormant, and dead.

4. Analysis a student experiment to determine its strengths and weaknesses.

5. Describe the structure of a compound microscope.

6. Identify 8 different parts on a microscope.

7. Focus a microscope.

8. Create wet and dry mount slides

9. Analyze the apparent movement of objects in a microscope relative to the real motion on the stage.

10. Compare how an image appears in a microscope to how it appears to the naked eye on the stage.

11. Define focal plane.

12. Calculate optical power.

13. Measure the field of view for each objective lens on the microscope.

14. Draw scale representations of images seen in a microscope to estimate size accurately.

15. Draw scale representations of images seen in a microscope to estimate size accurately.

16. Explain how the focal plane affects the image seen through a microscope.