Two Way Bug Viewer 4x
Two Way Bug Viewer 4x
Student's name
First and last name, and class if you know it. This goes on the pack label.
Pickup available at Mega DC – Tweed Heads South
Usually ready in 24 hours
Two lenses, two handles - so two children look at once
Plastic bug viewer with a 4x lens on the top and a second 4x lens on the side. Two handles. Includes a plastic spider. $21.00.
The second lens is the whole idea. A standard bug viewer has one window on top, so one child looks and the other waits. This one has a lens on the top and a lens on the side, which means two children observe simultaneously - and, more usefully, they observe from two different angles at once and have something to disagree about.
Two handles for the same reason. It is designed to be held between two people rather than passed back and forth.
4x on both lenses. That is the right magnification for insects - enough to see legs, wings and segments, not so much that the field of view disappears and the creature is a blur every time it moves.
A plastic spider is included, which sounds like a gimmick and is not: it means the viewer works on day one before anyone has caught anything, and it gives a class something to practise focusing on.
Catch it, look at it, let it go. The point of a bug viewer is that the creature leaves alive, which a jar with a lid does not guarantee.