We at Children’s Microscopes dot com believe and support the healthy growth of children’s cognitive and learning development. This children’s microscopy site is a practical, down-to-earth guide for young adults who wish to conduct microbiological research. It is aimed at those new to research and microscopy and assumes no prior knowledge of the issues covered. It will also appeal to those people who have already conducted some microscopy research and who are interested in finding out more about other microscopy methods that are available to them. We aim to provide practical guidance for parents, teachers, child-care providers, and others who care for children. A second objective is to enable society to support healthy growth of children by providing opportunities for intellectual stimulation.

Children’s microscopes are usually either optical or compound type of microscopes. The most widely used variety of children’s microscopes are optical microscopes, which use visible light to create a magnified image of an object. The simplest optical microscope is the double-convex lens with a short focal length. Double-convex lenses can magnify an object up to 15 times. Children’s microscopes use two lenses, an objective lens and an ocular lens, mounted at opposite ends of a closed tube, to provide greater magnification than is possible with a single lens. The objective lens is composed of several lens elements that form an enlarged real image of the object being examined. The real image formed by the objective lens lies at the focal point of the ocular lens. Thus, the young observer looking through the ocular lens sees an enlarged virtual image of the real image.

The total magnification of our toy and educational microscopes are determined by the focal lengths of the two lens systems and can be more than 2000 times. These children’s microscopy sets come in 50x, 100x, 150x, 300x, and 600x magnifications. With our children’s microscope models, our young scientists can investigate everything from cells to crystals! They are perfect for individual or classroom use, the glass eyepieces and power settings from 50x to 600x provide users with superior precision viewing. The built-in light and rack and pinion focusing help deliver bright, clear images. The 48-piece kit types have professionally prepared slides and everything our young users need to make their own specimen slides. Its tempered glassware and shockproof components make our children’s microscope models very resilient to average youthful clumsiness and breakage.

Our combination classroom and field 50X microscope features battery-powered light sources and easy, one-hand operation of focus and light. Also included are detachable 50X objectives that attach to a stable, removable base with equipment storage compartment, water dropper, brine shrimp eggs and hatchery, sea salt, plastic cover slips, activity guides, and more (depending on model type). Not just a toy, but a scientific instrument, our microscope models include high-quality components and features that make it appropriate for science learning at any age.