Name
Date
Period
Lab: Using a Compound Light Microscope
Background:
Objectives: In this lab you will:
1. Learn the parts of a compound light microscope and their functions.
2. Learn how to calculate the magnification of a compound light microscope.
3. Understand how the orientation and movement of the specimen’s image changes when
viewed though a compound light microscope.
4. Learn the proper use of the low and high power objective lenses.
5. Learn the proper use of the coarse and fine adjustments for focusing.
Materials:
Procedure:
Part I. Learning about the microscope
Use the words from the word bank
below to fill in the parts names in
Table 1 below.
F
Word Bank:
G
A
B
H
C
I
Arm Base
Coarse adjustment Diaphragm
Fine adjustment
Objective lenses Ocular
lens
Light
Stage
Stage clips
D
J
E
Figure 2
1. Fill in Table 1 with the names and functions of each microscope part in Figure 2.
TABLE 1:
Part
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
Name
Function
Draw the two cells that you observed under microscope