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Introduce junior and senior high school students to the world of microscopy with inexpensive, unbreakable microslides. Microslides consist of a strip of film with eight photomicrographs, each reproduced exactly as you would see them through a professional microscope under ideal conditions. You can supply all your students with their own microslides. A detailed text folder is included. Viewers are available separately.
In this lesson students learn about several different types of animal "skin", how feathers, fur, skin and scales are all adaptations of skin, how skin protects the animal, and the similarities and differences between skins. The set features one strip of eight images. Also included is a key to image descriptions.
1. Scales - Guppy (40X) and Dogfish (100X)
2. Scales - Lizard (10X) and Bird (20X)
3. Frog skin (160X)
4. Flight feathers (32X)
5. Down feather (20X)
6. Raccoon fur (40X)
7. Human skin - cs (100X) and surface (10X)
8. Fingernails (4X) and claws (10X)
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