Yes, you do. You cannot see an atom with the naked eye; it is too small.
You Need a really powerful Microscope
You cannot see an atom visually with a microscope. They're smaller (quite a bit smaller, actually) than visual light waves. The instrument that's used to "see" atoms is called a scanning tunneling microscope, but it doesn't use visible light, it uses electrical potentials and the pictures are generated by computer processing of the data.
The atomic force microscope is an instrument.
Not unless your highschool has an electron microscope
Without a microscope? Never. Atoms are much to small to see with the naked eye...
what is something that scienists need a microscope to see
No device can give the complete structure of an atom but you can get a minute idea about the look of an atom using an Electron Microscope!
They are to SMALL to be seen by any microscope!
We need a microscope to see cells because they are too small to see without one.
No, you need a florescent microscope to see that.
== == No. Beacause the atom is the smallest part in an element. You can't see it even in a microscope.
A single atom is not visible in a microscope (it is too small to be imaged by photons). What you see in an optical microscope (or in general) is the light reflected, scattered, or emitted by the electron layers of the material under observation.