Explore the Microscopic World!

Zach Fowler's Microscope Exploration class still has seats available!

Participants will learn about different types of microscopes and explore nature and our surroundings with a stereomicroscope and a high power microscope. We will use a camera attached to the microscopes to connect them to a projector. This allows us all to see on the projector screen what would be seen by looking into the microscopes’ eyepieces. A stereomicroscope can magnify nearly anything by up to about 40x, and a high power microscope can magnify slide-mounted specimens by up to 1000x. These microscopes allow us to make fascinating discoveries just beyond the limits of our unaided visual resolution.