As for activities, the kit comes with two 10-piece slide kits for viewing prepared slides and creating your own, which includes blue and red specimen stains and tools.

The Apexel PhoneMicro 5 3-in-1 kit ships with the 100x, 150x and 200x microscopes but to save cash you can buy the microscope modules (with a quick-mount smartphone stretch clip) separately.

With prepared and blank slides, additional accessories and a choice of lighting, the National Geographic Ultimate Dual is a great all-in-one microscope kit for young biologists and geologists.

DIPLE is a new smartphone microscope kit that promises up to 1,000 times magnification from your phone’s camera. It’s made by SmartMicroOptics, which also made the BLIPS kit of stick-on ...

The AmScope M150C comes with 3 batteries, an EU mains adapter, 25 biology slides, a dust cover and a second eyepiece lens, making it an ideal starter kit. (Image credit: Heather Barker) ...

The AmScope M150C-I resembles many other microscopes but comes in at $100, within a serious student’s budget, and affordable enough multiples can be purchased for a group of learners. This ...

With two young kids, I feel like toys are slowly taking over my home and will, eventually, consume it — so it takes a lot for a children’s toy to impress me…but the LeapFrog Magic Adventures ...