The Virtual Microscope allows users to examine and explore minerals and microscopic features of rocks, helping them to develop classification and identification skills without the need for high-cost …

Every Collection gives you access to virtual thin sections – and in some cases virtual hand specimens as well – of a range of samples for you to study as if using a specialist petrological microscope.

The Virtual Microscope allows users to examine and explore minerals and microscopic features of rocks, helping them to develop classification and identification skills without the need for high-cost …

Clicking the embedded link while connected to the internet opens the Virtual Microscope website to show the feature shared using the same viewing conditions and zoom level.

UK Virtual Microscope Click the microscope button to view a thin section for this sample.

Refers to any word or phrase that appears in the individual rock names. Names are generally descriptive; they allow the user to searranite' as well as more specific names such as 'breccia'. …

While virtual microscopes don't replace physical microscopes, they are a significant step change that allows students to explore whole thin sections either supervised, on their own, or with other students, …

The United Kingdom Virtual Microscope (UKVM) collection consists of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks from around the UK. It is intended as a teaching resource, helping to tell the story …

UK Virtual Microscope Click the microscope button to view a thin section for this sample.

The problems of teaching with complex visual materials, in effect of teaching students 'how to see' from the scientific perspective, is thus a skill that can be taught using a virtual microscope.