My daughter (7) has made it a lot of fun to explore all sorts of things with it. At that age, it is still too difficult for them - because to ungeduldigt - to seek the sharpness itself, but with instructions, it worked quite well. The supplied Präperate made sure that you can satisfy his curiosity immediately. Soon we will then venture out times to the shrimp farming. As in other reports, the software supplied only works on XP reasonable. On my Win7 notebook, I made it oddly exactly once to erheischen a picture with the Microskop cam, then the camera is no longer detected. I then loaded me some free webcam software on the net. With this it works just fine and now we can record photos and videos also. My daughter found it totally cool to take the prints of the photographs, which I then made for them in the school with the social studies classes. And a 1000-fold magnification of such a fly leg is ever a house number. From me there four star. If the supplied SW function, I would have forgiven even five.