[ad_1]

If your child has been inter­est­ed in the study of nat­ur­al sci­ences since ear­ly child­hood, then try to sup­port his hob­by. There are many lawyers and econ­o­mists, but there are few sci­en­tists in Rus­sia, and not only in Rus­sia. Maybe the child will not become a sci­en­tif­ic lumi­nary, how­ev­er, his keen inter­est and crav­ing for knowl­edge will def­i­nite­ly help in life. A micro­scope would be a good gift. Today, this device is avail­able not only in lab­o­ra­to­ries. Good mod­els for chil­dren are inex­pen­sive, and they give a decent pic­ture. KP has com­piled a selec­tion of the best baby micro­scopes avail­able for sale in 2022.

Top 10 rating according to KP

1. LEVENHUK Rainbow 50L Plus

Five col­or schemes of this mod­el of a micro­scope for a child are avail­able for sale. All are pret­ty bright and pret­ty. Sup­plied in a qual­i­ty case. Rich equip­ment: a set of anatom­i­cal sec­tions of plants, jars with marine organ­isms, tweez­ers, two-fold Bar­low lens, tweez­ers, bat­ter­ies, pow­er sup­ply. Monoc­u­lar — where the researcher looks, rotates 360 degrees. Con­ve­nient for group work. It is bad that the stan­dard eye­piece has a land­ing diam­e­ter less than the width of the micro eye­piece. There­fore, it can be used com­fort­ably only with a Bar­low lens. Oth­er­wise it will hang out. Imme­di­ate­ly there are three lens­es in the tur­ret. To focus, you need to rotate the han­dle of the object stage and its posi­tion will change ver­ti­cal­ly. This is stan­dard prac­tice in these mod­els. It’s good that the man­u­fac­tur­er did not stint on the steel focus­ing mech­a­nism. It is more reli­able than plas­tic coun­ter­parts. The table is illu­mi­nat­ed from above and below by LEDs. You can adjust the bright­ness.

Characteristics

Pur­pose:	bio­log­i­cal
Type of:	monoc­u­lar
Revolv­ing device:	for three lens­es
Increase:	64–1280 times
Back­light:	LED
Case:	there is
Exper­i­ment set:	there is

Pros and cons

Rich equip­ment

The qual­i­ty of the eye­piece does not reach the declared price

2. Micromed 100–900x

The micro­scope is deliv­ered in a good plas­tic case. Every­thing you need to get out of the box and start exper­i­ments has already been added to the kit: reagents, tools. There is an instruc­tion in Russ­ian. The tri­pod is made of met­al, and the optics, despite the price, are made of glass. The han­dles are tight, but this is rather a plus, since it will not be pos­si­ble to knock down the focus with a care­less move­ment. Fil­ters are built into the aper­ture disk under the stage, which rotates to bet­ter match the illu­mi­na­tion. The bat­tery com­part­ment is opened by unscrew­ing the screws, so have a small screw­driv­er ready. The light­ing here is com­bined: a mir­ror plus an incan­des­cent lamp. The elec­tri­cal source is built into the back of the lamp. An inter­est­ing deci­sion worth com­mend­ing.

>

>

Characteristics

Pros and cons

3. BRESSER National Geographic 300x-1200x

Two well-known brands have teamed up and pro­duce good sam­ples of opti­cal instru­ments. Among them is a micro­scope for a child, wor­thy of men­tion in the rank­ing of the best. On the box is an indi­ca­tion of age — from six years. All pack­aged in two neat box­es. In the first, the device itself is already assem­bled and ready for use. In the sec­ond set for research: five bot­tles of dif­fer­ent sizes, pipette, spat­u­la, scalpel, tweez­ers, glass for sam­ples. The device is small, the base is cast from met­al. This is a big plus for dura­bil­i­ty. Made in Ger­many, by the way. The mir­ror, like the mod­els above, con­tains a lamp on the back. Only here it is LED, which is more con­ve­nient. There is even a spare includ­ed. Sum­ma­riz­ing, we note that this is a high-qual­i­ty sam­ple of a micro­scope for school­child­ren, with which you can immerse your­self in the micro­cosm. Only there is an impor­tant caveat: the device is dif­fi­cult to get into sharp­ness. Do not leave your child alone with the device. Help me fig­ure out how to focus, oth­er­wise the tool will end up on a dusty shelf.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

4. LEVENHUK LabZZ M101

At the begin­ning of our review of the best micro­scopes for chil­dren in 2021, we talked about the more expen­sive mod­el of this com­pa­ny. This one is three times cheap­er. The kit also includes a box with sam­ples and incu­ba­tors with uni­cel­lu­lar organ­isms, sus­pen­sion bot­tles, tweez­ers and a pipette. There is no case, but for such a price it is expect­ed. But put a dust cov­er. The micro­scope is com­plete­ly made of plas­tic. Build qual­i­ty. Large­ly due to the min­i­miza­tion of mov­ing parts. Only the eye­piece and the object stage rotate here — the move is smooth. Every­thing else is mono­lith­ic. The eye­piece has a vari­able mag­ni­fi­ca­tion. That is, by rotat­ing it, you can change the mag­ni­fi­ca­tion from 10x to 16x. The revolver has three lens­es of stan­dard mag­ni­fi­ca­tion for this man­u­fac­tur­er: 4x, 10x, 40x. Lens­es can be removed to, for exam­ple, clean from dust, but change will not work. The diam­e­ter is non-stan­dard, these are not sold in stores. Illu­mi­na­tion is only low­er. But you can adjust its inten­si­ty. Food from fin­ger bat­ter­ies.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

5. Edu Toys MS907

The design of this micro­scope direct­ly says that it was made for a child, and not for exper­i­ments. For exam­ple, they sell it in a mul­ti-col­ored box, and inside there is a mul­ti-col­ored print­ing with a descrip­tion of the exper­i­ments. The device itself is made of plas­tic, paint­ed to look like met­al. The coat­ing is of good qual­i­ty, visu­al­ly it seems that it is real­ly steel. A mir­ror is installed at the bot­tom, which, if nec­es­sary, can be turned upside down and used as a back­light. In ear­ly mod­els they used a lamp, but then they changed to an LED. How­ev­er, past vari­a­tions of the mod­el are also on sale in 2021. The lamp is pow­ered by a coin cell bat­tery. Includes a dozen clear glass slides. There are sam­ple box­es. There are small flasks and a Petri dish for prepa­ra­tions. The per­for­mance of every­thing is toy. We rec­om­mend buy­ing this micro­scope only for pri­ma­ry school stu­dents. For mid­dle school age, it will seem toy and friv­o­lous.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

6.National Geographic 40–640x

Please note that a sim­i­lar device, only in a dif­fer­ent col­or, is under the Brass­er Junior brand. The man­u­fac­tur­er is the same, just dif­fer­ent posi­tion­ing exclu­sive­ly at the mar­ket­ing lev­el. How­ev­er, the ver­sion under the title of a well-known mag­a­zine has an adapter for a smart­phone includ­ed. Of course, you can always assem­ble it your­self from card­board, glue and a cou­ple of rub­ber bands. Or buy. But you must admit that it is more pleas­ant when the thing is already ready for use out of the box. The kit here is rich, how­ev­er, all the tools are minia­ture, rem­i­nis­cent of chil­dren’s toys from a doll­house. How­ev­er, you can use every­thing for its intend­ed pur­pose — under­stand­ing the world in the game. There are test tubes, tweez­ers, a mag­ni­fy­ing glass, a con­tain­er for grow­ing bac­te­ria. We put a few sam­ples, a spare lamp and bat­ter­ies. The case is made of durable plas­tic, so the mod­el is very light. Lens­es are the sim­plest, con­sist­ing of only one lens. You can­not open them and change them to oth­ers.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

7. Celestron 44320

This brand used to pro­duce many micro­scopes, includ­ing for chil­dren. This mod­el is designed for stu­dents. In gen­er­al, the com­pa­ny obvi­ous­ly decid­ed to focus on seri­ous devices, so in 2021 a small line­up of their devices remained in stores. How­ev­er, this is a fair­ly pop­u­lar mod­el. It is made of plas­tic, but the optics, for­tu­nate­ly, are made of glass. The back­light here is com­bined, in oth­er words, two bulbs — above and below. Thanks to this, it can be used not only for bio­log­i­cal research, but also to exam­ine, for exam­ple, small parts, coins, ban­knotes. There is also a mir­ror to redi­rect the light beam. The body also has a built-in light dif­fuser that helps reduce the inten­si­ty for bet­ter view­ing of details. Its main dif­fer­ence from col­leagues in the same price seg­ment is the cam­era. It has mediocre qual­i­ty for our 2021. But it’s still bet­ter than noth­ing. The pic­ture is dis­played on the screen via USB. You just need to install the soft­ware from the disk first. It is very sim­ple.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

8.Eastcolight 8009

We can­not call this prod­uct a micro­scope in the full sense of the word. Let’s imme­di­ate­ly define that this is an edu­ca­tion­al toy in the form of a micro­scope for a child. The prod­uct is often sold in chil­dren’s stores. Its price attracts. The set here is not as rich as that of com­peti­tors. Just one insect wing, a cou­ple of plas­tic slides and stick­ers for label­ing prepa­ra­tions. It is made entire­ly of plas­tic. If you decide to buy such a device for a child, then pre­pare in advance sev­er­al images that you can con­sid­er. And then hand over a present, the child looks at a lone­ly wing for five min­utes and gives up. Life hack: take lit­er­al­ly every­thing loose that is in the kitchen: sug­ar, cof­fee, match­es. All this can be seen in rel­a­tive­ly detail in the local eye­piece, although the mag­ni­fi­ca­tion is not gigan­tic.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

9. Science Fun Leeuwenhoek World

Once upon a time, the Dutch mer­chant Liven­hoek dis­cov­ered the microworld by sim­ply look­ing through pol­ished glass into a dirty drop of water. Today, numer­ous opti­cal instru­ments are named after him. The assem­bly of this mod­el of the micro­scope is of high qual­i­ty, but in some places you can see the bumps that remained dur­ing the grind­ing of the met­al. They do not affect the qual­i­ty of work, just visu­al per­fec­tion­ists can shake their heads. We praise the man­u­fac­tur­er for a detailed man­u­al with exper­i­ments. Book in Russ­ian, which lists 77 house­hold exper­i­ments. The case is steel, only some details, such as the case around the LEDs or the lens plat­ing made of plas­tic. How­ev­er, the mate­r­i­al is sol­id. The man­u­fac­tur­er puts a set of prepa­ra­tions, glass­es and oth­er reg­u­lar parts in the kit. Inter­est­ing­ly, there is even a ster­ile scalpel and a dis­sect­ing nee­dle.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

10. LOMO Mikmed 5.0

Three com­po­nents of the micro­scope are placed in the box, from which even a child can eas­i­ly assem­ble a func­tion­ing device. Note that there is no eye­piece to look into. All infor­ma­tion is dis­played on the com­put­er screen. Opti­cal zoom up to 300x. Adjust­ment of pro­vi­sions occurs thanks to brack­ets. They are easy to screw on and off. Focus is adjust­ed by a spe­cial ring. There is even a micro­phone through which you can record your obser­va­tions. Yes, the local cam­era takes not only pho­tos, but also videos. There is a spe­cial remote con­trol with a but­ton to take a pho­to and a LED reg­u­la­tor. The back­light lights up when the device is con­nect­ed to a com­put­er, no bat­ter­ies are need­ed. On the com­put­er, you first need to install the pro­gram that comes on the CD-ROM (if you find a dri­ve) in the kit. The inter­face is quite sim­ple and under­stand­able.

Characteristics

Pros and cons

How to choose a microscope

We talked about the best mod­els of micro­scopes for chil­dren pre­sent­ed in 2021. The teacher of the nat­ur­al sci­ence cir­cle advised KP read­ers on the rules for choos­ing a device Yuri Vlasov.

The best tele­scopes for obser­va­tion

Overview of pop­u­lar mod­els, as well as the nuances of choice

What is the device made of?

The main part of the body is called the frame. An object stage is attached to it — it can be tak­en out sep­a­rate­ly, or be built into the low­er part. It has clamps that fix the object of study. Obser­va­tion takes place through the eye­piece. Most of the time he is alone. But it is more con­ve­nient dou­ble or triple. The lat­ter is designed to install a cam­era in a free cell. The lens is respon­si­ble for the mag­ni­fi­ca­tion, which con­sists of sev­er­al lens­es.

>

>

What do the numbers mean

The eye­piece and lens have their own mag­ni­fi­ca­tions. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, they are indi­cat­ed on the body. To find out the actu­al increase, you need to mul­ti­ply these two num­bers. For exam­ple, if the lens says 20x and the eye­piece says 10x, then the micro­scope will zoom in 200x.

Top or bottom lighting

From the bot­tom, the object is exam­ined in trans­mit­ted light. This is used in bio­log­i­cal research. Of the minus­es — you need to make a translu­cent cut of the object under study. And this needs to be learned. Although many man­u­fac­tur­ers of micro­scopes for chil­dren put a handy blade in the box.

The most reli­able light­ing option is a mir­ror. You direct a beam of nat­ur­al light at it, and it reflects back onto the object. Some mod­els have LED light­ing. It is pow­er­ful and at the same time unpre­ten­tious to pow­er sources — bat­ter­ies or a sock­et, depend­ing on the mod­el. How­ev­er, with it, eyes get tired faster, and anoth­er one visu­al­ly changes the col­or of the object. Halo­gen light­ing is built into expen­sive mod­els, but devices with it are much more expen­sive. Plus they get hot.

The top light allows you to apply reflect­ed light. It is con­ve­nient to exam­ine objects with it: ban­knotes, coins, details. It can also be used in ama­teur bio­log­i­cal exper­i­ments. For exam­ple, when study­ing insects.

What are the types of microscopes for schoolchildren

Bio­log­i­cal. They study tis­sues, smears, uni­cel­lu­lar and oth­er liv­ing mat­ter. The mag­ni­fi­ca­tion range in such micro­scopes for chil­dren is from 40x to 1200x. They are also called edu­ca­tion­al. Con­sid­er­ing bac­te­ria and virus­es with such a zoom will not work, but this is hard­ly nec­es­sary for a child.

The best binoc­u­lars

Read our arti­cle about the 10 best binoc­u­lars that won us over

Instru­men­tal. They study micro­cir­cuits, details, rough­ly speak­ing, every­thing inan­i­mate. They have an increase in the region of 100–300 times, since this is enough. Some­times there are two lens­es, as well as eye­pieces. This is nec­es­sary to get a pic­ture of a three-dimen­sion­al object. For exam­ple, jew­el­ry stone.

USB. They don’t have their own eye­piece. It con­nects to the com­put­er and the pic­ture goes to the screen. Tech­nol­o­gy is great for today’s kids. The increase here on aver­age does not exceed 20–30 times. But there is a dig­i­tal zoom 200–1000x. But the image will get worse as you get clos­er, because the res­o­lu­tion of the cam­era is not high. For stud­ies of liv­ing mat­ter, they are poor­ly suit­ed.

Elec­tron­ic and scan­ning micro­scopes for pro­fes­sion­al lab­o­ra­to­ries.

>

>