Digital Microscopes

During Science investigations with Mrs Nelson our class used digital microscopes to continue our research about looking at materials and objects very closely.

Mrs Nelson had a set of digital microscopes that clip onto our iPads. We’ve been using them each week that she worked in our classroom. We really loved the predictions, investigations and checking of our results – we needed to think and work like Scientists. We investigated man made objects and materials and then ventured outside to look at nature.

Here we are learning outdoors – investigating nature.

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Then we came back inside the classroom and shared our best nature images via the IWB.

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The next learning task was to examine fabric and then test how waterproof specific materials were. We set up our material strips on plastic containers and then used syringes of water to test their ‘waterproofness’.

 

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We continued our testing and started to record our findings.

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Our final stage was to record our findings and we discussed what we’d discovered. We also need to explain our findings, giving reasons for our answers.

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We LOVED using the digital microscopes and hope to use them again in the future.

Can you tell us why you liked using the microscopes?

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