Yearly Life at Somerhill

Year 6 Science Club visit to Tonbridge School Year 6 Science Club took a trip to Tonbridge School on 2nd October to see a scanning electron microscope in action. Miss Szalczinger explained that instead of using light to produce an image, the microscope scans the surface of an object by firing a focused beam of electrons. The electrons interact with the atoms on the surface of the sample to produce a highly detailed image. The children saw shark skin and teeth, grains of sand, tiny hairs on a stinging nettle and pollen grains from a lily.