Measuring What You See: Viewing Magnification, Field of View, and Specimen Size
Omitted from the ABLE 2019 workshop: Students are provided with instructional material about field of view diameter use the University of Delaware's Virtual Compound Microscope to estimate specimen size using field of view and to measure more accurately with an ocular micrometer.
They are also asked to use the field of view method to estimate the size of the cells in their red onion specimen (see student questions handout).