Question

What types of specimens were you able to view under each of the microscopes in the microscope activity? How did the specimen views differ?

Answer 1

The question makes it seem that you looked through both types of microscopes at specific samples? As for how they would differ, a light microscope's level of magnification is limited by the physical characteristics of light and therefore can only see objects as small as organelles inside of a cell. A scanning electron microscope, however, does not use light, it uses a beam of electrons to visualize the sample. Electrons are much smaller than the light beam and are able to image much smaller objects, such as molecules and atoms.