Computer that allows downloading (and uploading in some cases) of files by the use of file transfer protocol (FTP) over the internet. There are over a thousand FTP sites with hundreds of thousands of text, graphics, sound, and video files freely available to anyone. However, a FTP site is not a website because its data cannot be displayed like a webpage. See also anonymous FTP.
Scientific tools for making observations include a microscope, which is a tool used to see very small objects. In your science lab you use a compound microscope to see cells in 2-D, but a scientist can use a scanning electron microscope to view tiny objects in 3-D.
We have power tools for other production work weâre doing, but the kids learn â¦ hand tools. We do point out how the power tools can be used to speed things along and what hand tools translate into which power tools, and for kids who have those tools at home, theyâve appreciated it.