Beginner Microscopes

Beginner Microscopes

A child’s first look through a microscope is a truly thrilling experience. Once they see what exists beyond the range of the naked eye, their world expands tremendously. We have a good selection of microscopes and kits at varying levels of complexity, all for extremely reasonable prices.

The interactive GeoSafari Talking Microscope leads kids through their first experience and feeds their curiosity about insects and arachnids. This interactive kit includes slides of 12 bugs and spiders. For each slide, the user can hear facts about the critter and then take a quiz to show how much they’ve learned. It has a 5X focusing magnifier and a light for better viewing. This beginner microscopes is appropriate for ages five and up.

When young investigators are ready for a more complex kit, the Konus Youth Microscope gives them a wide range of possibilities. This amazing instrument acts as a projector (on a wall or paper) and camera attachment as well as a microscope and viewer. It has magnifications of 100 to 1200X for spectacular viewing, and includes a microtome for sectioning specimens and directions for making slides. The scope and its 81 accessories come with a durable storage case.

For those budding scientists who are comfortable in the cyberworld, the Konus Pix-4 is a four-in-one digital instrument that can link to a PC. At 640 x 480 pixels, still images can be captured, recorded, printed, and stored–videos too! This combination microscope, web camera, and digital camera includes USB connection.