{"id":133489,"date":"2022-01-02T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/kids-build-diy-microscope-from-lego-cheap-phone-parts"},"modified":"2022-01-02T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:23:15","slug":"kids-build-diy-microscope-from-lego-cheap-phone-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/kids-build-diy-microscope-from-lego-cheap-phone-parts","title":{"rendered":"Kids build DIY microscope from LEGO &amp; cheap phone parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kids-build-diy-microscope-from-lego-cheap-phone-parts3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A DIY microscope made out of LEGO bricks and smartphone lenses could be a powerful learning tool, teaching children not only how to use microscopes, but also how they work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing is learning:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/light-microscope\">Microscopes<\/a> are an essential scientific tool, right up there with bunsen burners and petri dishes, which means they\u2019re also essential to any child\u2019s science education.<\/p>\n<p>But even when young people have access to microscopes, they\u2019re often only taught how to use the instruments \u2014 put a slide here, look through there \u2014 and not how they actually work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DIY microscope made out of LEGO bricks and smartphone lenses could be a powerful learning tool, teaching children not only how to use microscopes, but also how they work. Seeing is learning: Microscopes are an essential scientific tool, right up there with bunsen burners and petri dishes, which means they\u2019re also essential to any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}