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Carson Optigami Build-Your-Own Cardboard Microscope Kit NGSS

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Assemble your very own microscope!

Description

Experience the fun of assembling your very own microscope with the Carson Optigami Build-Your-Own Cardboard Microscope Kit. The microscope can be used as a stand-alone, or it can become a digital microscope by attaching the smartphone platform to help capture photos or videos of your exciting finds.

Have fun viewing the included prepared slides. With powerful 50-400x magnification, you will discover things the naked eye can't see. Includes: 13 prepared slides, 2 blank microscope slides with coverslips, and (1) eye dropper. Uses 2 AA batteries (not included).

Fits all phones. For specific information on your model, visit: www.carson.com/multicam.

NGSS

This product will support your students' understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)*, as shown in the table below.

Elementary Middle School  

1-PS4-3

Students could use this tool to conduct an investigation of how different materials affect the path of a beam of light.

1-PS4-4

Students can use this tool to plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

MS-LS1-1

Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

MS-PS4-2

Students could use this tool to develop and use a model to describe that waves can be reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through an object.

 

Suggested Science Idea(s)

MS-LS1-1

Students can build and use their own microscope to observe and conduct an investigation of various living things such as plant parts and their own hair to understand that living things are made of many different numbers and types of cells.

 

* NGSS is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of, and do not endorse, this product.

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