Leaves of a Flowering Plant Microslides

Explore the structure and function of leaves.

• Arrows help students locate important features
• Mounted in a clear plastic holder that protects it on both sides
• Set of 15 includes detailed lesson pan on the topic under study
• Durable, economical teaching resource

Introduce junior and senior high school students to the world of microscopy with economical, unbreakable microslides. Microslides consist of a strip of film with eight photomicrographs, each reproduced exactly as you would see them through a professional microscope under ideal conditions. You can supply all your students with their own microslides.

Each microslide is accompanied by a detailed lesson plan designed to stimulate, inform, and question students about the topic under study. Each lesson plan has a pocket in which the microslide is stored. Lesson plans are printed on heavy card stock and will serve for repeated use.

Ordering information: Viewers are available separately.

Delivery information: Set includes 1. Lilac leaf C.S. stained (60×) 2. Working layers of the Leaf 3. Upper epidermis and palisades 4. Chloroplast - electron micrograph (30000×) 5. Epidermis - surface view - stained (150×) 6. Stomate - surface view - stained (430×) 7. Air space and spongy layer C.S. stained (480×) 8. Abscissions layer L.S. stained (12×).