Friday, July 31, 2020

Apologia Biology: Lab Safety, Equipment, and Microscope

Start the Biology class with some basics: Lab Safety, Equipment Names, and Microscope parts. Let’s  start with this Lab Safety Lesson.  Next are Safety Agreements or Safety Contract.  Want a safety activity?  Make Lab Safety Bumper Stickers or search Pinterest for Lab Safety memes to post in your home-school space.  

Next is Lab Equipment.   Lastly is a lesson on the microscope.  Module 1 has a step by step Microscope Experiment.  The Biology Corner has a Microscope Introductory Lab with the University of Delaware’s Virtual Microscope.  I do have several light microscopes.  Actually we use digital microscopes with a laptop.  The microscopes usually work with Thinkpads or Chromebooks—but, not always.  Kids need to learn the names of the parts of a light microscope.  My classes use the digital microscope, focuses the slides, takes a screen shot, and then sketches the slide.  Be sure to Quiz your kids on the names of the parts of the microscope.

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