Place the microscope on the working table and remove dust by wiping the body with a silk cloth.
Clean the lenses with lens cleaning fluid and lens cleaning paper. Identify the various parts of the microscope.
Draw a diagram of the microscope and label its various parts.
Take a permanent slide preparation or a temporary preparation made by you, and keep it on the stage of a microscope, fix it with clips after focusing and view.
Learn how the microscope can be tilted or inclined by moving the arm of the microscope.
Note, how focussing is done by moving the coarse adjustment and fine adjustment knobs.
Simulator Procedure
Part A
Click on the play button to start the experiment.
Identify and label the following components in the checkbox provided.
A microscope with bubbles will be shown or displayed.
At the top of the simulation area there will be three divisions- correct and wrong questions count, parts of the microscope and time taken.
From the three division one will show the part of the microscope.
The same time the timer will start.
Select any bubble from the microscope.
If you select the correct bubbles which matches the name of parts of the microscope.
The bubble will show green colour and one mark will count to the correct mark box.
The correct label will appear in blank box near to the bubble.
If answer chosen is wrong, the bubble will be red in colour and one mark will add to wrong mark count.
On completing the task, it will show the marks and time taken.
Repeat the experiment by clicking on the Reset button.
Part B
A microscope will be shown on the screen.
Drag and drop the cloth beside the microscope to clean the microscope eyepiece and objectives.
Click on the Switch to ON the microscope.
Drag and drop a permanent slide towards the stage of the microscope.
A zoomed microscopic view will be visible.
Click on the objectives to adjust the objective lens of microscope, First drag the 10x lens.
Click on top/down button on the coarse adjustment knob.
Click on top/down button on fine adjustment knob to observe the clear image.
Click on the objective lens to adjust into 40X.
Repeat the process to get the clear image.
Click on the objectives to adjust the objective lens of microscope into 100X.
Drag and drop the oil dropper and drop the oil into the slide.
Adjust the coarse and fine adjustment by clicking the respective knobs.
A perfect enlarged image will be shown on the microscopic view.
Repeat the experiment by clicking on the Reset button.
