Essential STEM Tools Microscope with Smartphone Adapter Review

Editor's Rating
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Editor's Review

If your budding scientist needs the essential tools for exploring the world around them, then they need the Microscope with Smartphone Adapter. You can attach your smartphone to view and capture images. This microscope comes with three objective lenses for magnification powers of 60x, 150x, and 600x. This 45-piece set allows kids to collect specimens and prepare slides. Kids can start off with the three prepared slides, which lets them see up close two types of leaves and an onion bulb epidermis. Then kids can find their own samples for the eight blank slides and slide labels. Some suggestions are pond water, human hair, salt crystals, dust particles, and pollen grains. The instructions walk kids through how to use the microscope, how to use the smartphone adapter, and how to prepare slides. Adults may need to help out with some of the sample collection and preparation. The instructions also explain how a microscope works. This also comes with 16 cover slips, three specimen vials, a petri dish, a test tube, tweezers, a pipette, a stirring rod, and a spatula. You’ll also need two AA batteries and a small Phillips-head screwdriver. A smartphone is not included.

Price Check

$39.95

Should I get it?

We like how this microscope encourages kids to explore. Any time one uses a microscope, it’s always really cool and very surprising looking at something super close up. And this microscope offers three different magnifications plus the option to view through your phone or take cool pictures of what you see. Classic microscope technology mixed in with current technology make this a fun tool for today’s kids to use.

Pros

45 tools
3 magnifications
Attach your phone
Introduces STEM tool to kids

Cons

Batteries are not included
Smartphone feature didn’t work that well

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