Features:

  • Set of 50 prepared slides, including plants, insects, and animal tissues, for use in biological education
  • Samples preserved in cedar wood oil and sealed with a coverslip to preserves specimen and prevent contamination
  • Labeling provides specimen identification
  • Slides are composed of optical glass for clear viewing
  • Set comes in fitted wooden storage box to prevent breakage and ease handling
This was a really good buy for my grandson

Really well done and meticulously arranged. This was a really good buy for my grandson, who is new to microscope work.

very clear and educational

I ordered this for use in my biology classroom as a lightning deal. I was concerned that the quality would be sub par and the slides hard to see, but I worried for no reason. These slides are much better than the ones I've been using at school. They are very clear and easy to distinguish. I would order again if the slides were different.

Highly recommend.

We bought this to compliment a microscope gift for Christmas last year. The case continues to hold up to children exploring the contents inside. The slides themselves hold many opportunities to learn more about their world. I don't get tired of the kids wanting to show me something new they just saw. Highly recommend.

Gift Recipient (Proclaimed) To Like Them

Disclosure: I got these as a gift for my nephew, so I can't speak to durability or use in a microscope. What I can say is my nephew and I had fun going through them looking at what all they were and found it pretty interesting. When my own son grows up I would definitely be interested in buying this, or even a larger set.

Very good. Only one bad slide

Very good. Only one bad slide. Thank you.

Excellent slides. Great samples and staining...colorful

I've been a lab scientist for nearly 30 years, and these are good slides. I finally put these under the microscope last week when my granddaughter came over...she's a little 7-year-old brainiac. They are very beautifully stained and colorful. I've made biological slides myself with mounting medium and it can be a mess, but these are great with no bubbles trapped under the cover slips, nice thin sections, not smashed or distorted....beautifully stained. Very neatly labeled. Great sample of various 'things to look at'. No sharp edges on slides. In no time, granddaughter was taking them out of the very nice quality wooden slide box, putting them on the scope, and putting them back when she was done. She looked at different structures in stem sections of different types of plants, stomach lining cells ( I explained they were 'wavy' so they would have more absorption surface) and insect parts. I skipped explaining the life-cycle of the Ascaris egg. As I said, all of the cross sections were extremely crisp with no distortion and beautifully stained. Definitely professional and well-done. A lot can go wrong when making slides...these were clean and very well prepared. This is a great option for teaching because there is no mess!!

Quality Variation of Slides for An Interested Person

I purchased these slides for my 9 year old daughter for this Christmas; however, I took the liberty of taking them out of the box and "playing" with them for a good while to check out their quality. This is really an excellent set of slides that provides a good mix of biology and pathology slides of plants, insects, and animals. I actually am pleasantly surprised by the quality of the prepared slides, particularly since the price wasn't that expensive when you really look at prepared slides. The value and quality well exceeds the cost of these particular slides. Each slide is labeled with what it is showing, and is numbered according to the slot in the box, and a provided piece of paper supplied in the box. My paper wasn't attached to anything so I will have to laminate it or else it will be destroyed in less than a week. You get what you are looking at in the picture, and what is described. If you are interested in additional information on WHAT the slides portray, as far as why a particular thing is shaped the way it is, you either have to look at another source or just look it up on the Internet. As far as the wooden case, it seems to be of solid construction, but I haven't had it long enough to honestly review it's durability. Overall, I am extremely pleased with these slides. Now I have a Microbiology/RN back round so I may be slightly biased in my review, but I would really recommend these slides. I definitely would purchase them again without hesitation.

AmScope Prepared Slides

We have an 8 year old Granddaughter that amazes her parents and us time and again. We bought the AmScope 40-1000 Microscope and these Slides together and when she opened this gift from Santa Clause she hooked it up right away and that is all she wanted to do, just look at slides. Oh and BTW her Daddy was about as thrilled with it as our Granddaughter and could hardly wait to get it home so he could hook it up to Her computer and they could all look at the slides together and also make some of their own. Santa Clause really out did himself this year and although this slide set and the AmScope cord / cordless Microscope list 10 years old / older, it is just fine for many children that are a little ahead of average. I will leave this same review for the AmScope 40-1000 Microscope.

AmScope 50 PC Zoology-Botany Prepared Microscope Slides

I bought this product for my 9 year old son to use with his new microscope, and he was amazed with the slides, the quality is great and the specimens are interesting for a 9 year old or an adult, not at all like other slides that are "toy quality". They arrived very well packaged, and the wood box is quite sturdy.

Nice specimens.

Quality slides just as described.

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