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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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