Thursday, June 4, 2020

Where do you buy microscope slides?

Biology and Human Anatomy classes involve the microscope and slides.  Here is a post about the digital microscopes we use.  Where can you buy microscope slides?  This set of slides for kids runs about $10; it’s a good basic set for beginners.  Good Will often has slides.  Home Science Tools has the Apologia Biology set—but it’s $45. I bought a set of 200 slides for my Biology Co-op classes for about $115.  This purchase was an investment; I hope to teach Biology or Anatomy for several years.

Are you on a strict budget?  I recommend this set of 25 slides for about $17.  This set has a nice variety of slides for Biology.  Also, buy an onion root tip slide to observe the stages of mitosis.  If your entire science budget is $100, use images, such as this one, pond life, or blood.  Save your money for household chemicals you’ll need for lab: baggies, cornstarch, iodine, meat tenderizer, split peas, etc.

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