I was working on my math and then I moved my leg, looked at it, and I saw a little black dot on my thigh. Right away I thought it was a tick and I was worried. My mom said it was a scab.
We decided to figure out what it was the scientific way. So my mom went to the garage and brought something that she forgot about, but thought about the other day. It was a magnifying kit with a microscope and a handheld magnifier.
To conduct our investigation, first we extracted the "tick" using tweezers and put it on a slide. I looked in a science book for a picture of a tick to have an idea of what it might look like. Then we looked at it under the microscope at 75X. We just saw a little oval shape with clearly defined edges. At 300X we could barely see it. Then I took the hand-held microscope and looked at it. It looked like dried blood. We determined that the "tick" was a scab.
After that we decided to look at a fly under the hand-held microscope. I observed that the fly looked really nasty. There were luminous blue flecks and streaks. The eye is big and oval and you can see tiny diamonds.
There is so much more to the world when you have a hand-held magnifier (14X). You can see so much. If you look on your floor, you will find that there are little equal holes. If you look on your wall, you will find patterns. If you look on some cardboard boxes, you will find that it is hairy, but you will find that others have little tiny holes, like the one of the floor. It is a really nice world and it is really cool.
We decided to figure out what it was the scientific way. So my mom went to the garage and brought something that she forgot about, but thought about the other day. It was a magnifying kit with a microscope and a handheld magnifier.
To conduct our investigation, first we extracted the "tick" using tweezers and put it on a slide. I looked in a science book for a picture of a tick to have an idea of what it might look like. Then we looked at it under the microscope at 75X. We just saw a little oval shape with clearly defined edges. At 300X we could barely see it. Then I took the hand-held microscope and looked at it. It looked like dried blood. We determined that the "tick" was a scab.
After that we decided to look at a fly under the hand-held microscope. I observed that the fly looked really nasty. There were luminous blue flecks and streaks. The eye is big and oval and you can see tiny diamonds.
There is so much more to the world when you have a hand-held magnifier (14X). You can see so much. If you look on your floor, you will find that there are little equal holes. If you look on your wall, you will find patterns. If you look on some cardboard boxes, you will find that it is hairy, but you will find that others have little tiny holes, like the one of the floor. It is a really nice world and it is really cool.
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