A highly detailed animated tutorial on light microscopy, including simple and compound microscope anatomy, polarized microscopy, darkfield, and fluorescent microscopy. Appropriate for AP physics or for a course in electricity and magnetism.

An animated tutorial that describes how scanning probe microscopes work to "read" the surface of nanoscale samples and provide image data.

A link to the tutorial page of Virtual Microscope with animations on basic functions of SEM, AFM, and LM microscopy.

A link to an animated tutorial on the structure and function of a Scanning Electron Microscope. Appropriate for high school and undergraduate education.