AmScope PS50 Prepared Microscope Slide Set for Basic Biological Science Education, 50 Slides, Includes Fitted Wooden Case

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.

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!!

These slides are awesome. Ii bought them for a microscope activity and kids were fascinated. Great amount for the price, and good quality slides too. Much better than buying at a science site.

It is a good set with a variety of insect/animal/plant to watch through the microscope It was a Xmas gift and kids and adults spent a few hrs looking at the various slide Opened a new learning dimension to all the people that were at the family gathering

Buen producto

The slides arrived and were all intact inside a nice wooden storage box (My biggest fear was that some might arrive broken, but fortunately that did not happen.) The slides were all high quality and I would have given this set a 4 or even a 5 star rating, except that every slide had greasy fingerprints from whomever last handled them prior to packing and shipping. We had to sit and individually clean each slide prior to viewing. AmScope should require that the slides be cleaned prior to packing, and that gloves be worn by those workers handling them.

Awesome 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.

Compared to some of microscope slides, the upper cover glass of AmScope slides are thinner so that we can see the objects through 100x objective lens clearly, certainly with the immersion oil. The typical one is "ascaris egg" we can see the development inside the eggs clearly through AmScope M500-LED microscope with 10x(1,000x) and 12.5x(1,250x,bought by ourselves) eyepieces, amazing! [2024-12-15]: I took some pictures of the slides recently. Uploaded for fun.

Qualità superba. Scatola in legno molto carina. Ottima collezione per ragazzi che si avvicinano alla microscopia. Venditore serio e tempestivo nel risolvere i problemi. Grazie.

Bought this Prepared Microscope Slide Set with my new microscope. I do recommend.

The wooden box of slides came in a plain white cover box, not the blue cover box with pictures as shown. I clumsily opened the box upside down and putting them back in order took a few minutes. The slides aren't numbered so you have to match the name on the slide to the list in the box to put them back in order. This may or may not be important to others. This is a Christmas gift so the recipient hasn't had a chance to check them out yet. They do appear to be quality slides. I would suggest that in the product description, a more specific description of what is on the slides would be helpful to avoid purchasing duplicate slides.