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Store Prepared Microscope Slides
Protect slides from direct sunlight, heat and cold. Sunlight causes stains to fade and tissues
to deteriorate.
Store slides horizontally with cover slips up. The mounting media in the center remains
a liquid for several years. If the slides are stored on their sides, heat and gravity will cause
the entire specimen to slip off.
BIOLOGY MICROSCOPY
Advanced Slide-Making—
Student Laboratory Kit
FB1762
Microscope “Mystery”—
A Drawing, Identifying, and
Size-Estimating Challenge—
Super Value Kit
FB1751
Cold temperatures and time may cause a cover slip to pop off. If this happens, replace
the cover slip and paint around the edges with clear nail polish. Use the same procedure
to replace cracked cover slips.
Never immerse slides in water or solvent. Slides should be cleaned using damp lens
paper. Cotton swabs dipped in rubbing alcohol or ethyl alcohol may be gently used to
remove oils on the cover slip.
Advanced Slide-Making—
Student Laboratory Kit
By: The Flinn Staff
• Glass microscope slides • Lens paper • Depression slides
• Disposable pipets • Cover slips • Acetone
• Microscope labels • Balsam • Magnifying glasses
• Fast green stain • Specimen jars • Isopropyl alcohol
• Razor blades • Methylene blue solution • Rulers
• Xylene • Forceps
• Activity manual Adventures With a Microscope
Complete for 30 students working in pairs.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
FB1762 Advanced Slide-Making—Student Laboratory Kit $141.90
Plant and Animal Cell
Mystery—Super Value
Laboratory Kit
By: The Flinn Staff
In this activity, written in the form of a mystery, students must apply their knowledge
of cell structure and organelles to identify four unknown prepared slides. To successfully
solve the mystery, students need to determine if each sample originated from a
plant or animal, and they must provide sketches and the supporting evidence such
as identifiable organelles to explain their choices. Includes eight prepared slides—
(two of each type), Teacher Notes and reproducible student handouts.
Super Value Kit is complete for 32 students working in groups of four. All materials
are reusable!
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
FB1910 Plant and Animal Cell Mystery—Super Value Laboratory Kit $54.85
Microscope “Mystery”—
A Drawing, Identifying, and
Size-Estimating Challenge—Super Value Kit
By: Steve Parker, Cornell High School, Cornell, WI
Take your students on a journey into the “mysterious” microscopic world as new and
perhaps strange-looking life forms are examined. Students will view specimens at
different magnifications and then draw what they see. Applying their math skills,
students will calculate the approximate size of microscopic objects. Then using the
information they have compiled, correctly identify eight “mystery” slides. This simple,
but effective, activity uses no live cultures, messy biological stains, is easy to set up
and can be reused many times.
Super Value Kit includes set of 8 prepared slides and masters of all student worksheets.
All materials are reusable. Compound microscopes are required.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
FB1751 Microscope “Mystery”—A Drawing, Identifying, and
Size-Estimating Challenge—Super Value Kit
$56.22
Plant and Animal
Cell Mystery—
Super Value
Laboratory Kit
FB1910
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