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Posted: May 08 2012 at 7:31am | IP Logged Quote mooreboyz
My oldest son will be doing high school biology next year. The microscope recommended for the curriculum I'm looking at is this:

rec. microscope

We have this microscope:

Discovery microscope

I really don't know much about microscopes. I just noticed that they both have a maximum magnification of 400x. I was thinking that I would need to get a "better" microscope for high school, but is the other really better?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

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Posted: May 08 2012 at 12:05pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Kris(AtHomeScience) regularly publishes a review of microscopes for homeschoolers. Those are on her blog - microscope reviews. I have always found it helpful. She provides very specific thoughts on the various features offered and which she thinks are most important. She also posted really helpful info in this thread from a few years ago - Castle Heights Biology Lab - microscope?

It is more than magnification level that makes a quality high school level microscope.

Using these reviews and PMing her for additional thoughts, I decided on this Sonlight microscope last year for high school biology. We have been really happy with it. It has the "extras" that really make it a more useful tool but for a reasonable price considering how much it would cost other places. We love having the mechanical stage which it comes with. You can build a similar microscope with some additions from Home Teaching Tools for about the same price. We considered that one too but in the end went with Sonlight because I knew it would arrive sooner and I was in a hurry.

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