Practical 1: Microscope Work
Content Objective: Use a microscope to identify parts of a cell and to calculate the size and magnification of cells and use this information to create scientific drawings of cells. To observe the characteristics of life in unicellular organisms.
Language Objective: Create a labeled diagram of eukaryotic cells with correct labels, titles and scale bars and determine the size of organism from drawings and pictures taken from microscopes.
Activity 1: Microscope Work
1. Please click here for the activity
2. Enter your data herxe for the estimated cell size for white onion, yellow onion and elodea.
3. Practice Microscope Problems
Activity 2: Scale Bars
Activity 3: Practice Analysing Data
Instructions: Using the data provided in activity one, create a simple data table containing length, width and volume and a graph of the average cell area of the Elodea and red onion cells.
Below is an example of a data table and a graph to help you.
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