Adventures With A Microscope
by Richard Headstrom Author
(From Amazon): With a simple microscope and this book you can embark on 59 exciting adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular level; learn how to prepare specimens and slides. 142 illustrations.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-486-23471-1
- Print Status
- In Print
- Adventures
- 59
- Pages
- 232
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Edition
- Reprint
- Copyright
- 1977
Adventures
- 1 We Examine Some Common Objects
- 2 We Become Crystal Gazers
- 3 We Hunt a One-Eyed Monster
- 4 We Learn the Meaning of Privacy
- 5 We Follow in the Footsteps of Hercules
- 6 We Learn How a Fly Walks Upside Down
- 7 We Seek the Famous Amoeba
- 8 We Meet With a Puzzle of Natual History
- 9 We Dig for Bones in an Ancient Graveyard
- 10 We Make the Acquaintance of the Desmids
- 11 We Find Beauty in Unexpected Places
- 12 We Stab Ourself for the Love of Science
- 13 We Go Marketing with a Honey Bee
- 14 We Learn What it Means to be Stung
- 15 We Meet with an Optical Illusion
- 16 We Make the Acquaintance of Eylais
- 17 We Take a Lesson in Food Analysis
- 18 We Raid Our Kitchen
- 19 We Go Bear Hunting
- 20 We Discover a Zoological Radio Station
- 21 We Come Upon a Strange Partnership
- 22 We Meet Some Relatives of the Amoeba
- 23 We Encounter Some Strange Animals
- 24 We Learn the Use of Perfume
- 25 We Test Our Morning Coffe
- 26 We Learn Something About Sponges
- 27 We Find Out What Chalk Is Made of
- 28 We Inquire into the Nature of Yeast
- 29 We Go Microbe Hunting
- 30 We Preform a Spicy Experiment
- 31 We Dig for Worms
- 32 We Meet Some More Worms
- 33 We Receive a Plesant Surprise
- 34 We Examine a Moss Plant
- 35 We Make a Study of Toadstools
- 36 We Become Farmers
- 37 We Veiw the Most Primative Insects
- 38 We Learn to Distinguish Textile Fibers
- 39 We Trace the Life History of Ferns
- 40 We Observe the Circulation of Blood
- 41 We Do a Bit of Surgery
- 42 We Meet a Champion
- 43 We Inspect a Spinning Machine
- 44 We Acquire Insight into the Structure of Roots
- 45 We Examine an Extra Ordinary Pipe-Line
- 46 We Tour Through Nature's Factories
- 47 We Learn the Flowers Are Not Merely Ornamental
- 48 We Investigate the Structure of Paper
- 49 We Train Our Lense on Two Familiar Creatures
- 50 We Behold an Animal That Swims on Its Back
- 51 We Recive a Lesson in Evolution
- 52 We Preform a Major Operation
- 53 We Prove That Appearances are Sometimes Deceptive
- 54 We Are Intrigued By a Delightful Relationship
- 55 We Look at the Sun Animalcule
- 56 We Approach the Science of Criminal Detection
- 57 We Solve a Mystery
- 58 We Observe a Wonderful Provision of Nature
- 59 We See What Makes Animals "Go"
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