Title: Microscope Labs

Purpose:

• To learn to use a microscope
• To observe, draw, and describe objects seen under a microscope
  

Materials:

• Microscope
• Prepared Slides (letter "e", cork, threads, fibers, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells)
• Human hair (yours)
• Mammal hair
• Onion skin: yellow, white, & purple
• Elodea leaves Slides & Cover Slips
• Potatoes, Tomatoes, Green Peppers, & Apples
• Pond Water
• Toothpick
• Iodine Methylene Blue
  

Procedure:

• Observe, Draw, & Describe all prepared slides at low and high power
• Make wet mount of human and mammal hair. Observe, draw, and describe normal, chemically treated, and mammal hair samples. Also, observe, draw, and describe split ends
• Make wet mounts of, onion, Elodea, potato, tomato, apple, green pepper…observe, draw, & describe at low and high power & label cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm.
• Make wet mount of cheek cell using methylene blue….. observe, draw, & describe at low and high power & label cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm.
• Make wet mount of "pond water"…observe, draw, & describe…..

Results:

(Observations and data~~~data charts and graphs and calculations where appropriate.Organization is necessary)

• For this lab: Labeled drawings and descriptions
  

Discussion:

• Summarize what you did.
• Comment on what happens when you move the letter "e" in different directions.
• Comment on differences in view between low and high power.
• Describe differences and similarities between animal and plant cells and prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells….differences and similarities that you observed!

Conclusion:

(A one sentence testable statement that follows from your results, what you did, what you observed)

Reflection:

(A personal statement about the activity, whether it relates to "real life," whether you liked it, suggested improvements

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Resources

• Virtual Microscope
  • http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html
• History of the Light Microscope
• http://www.utmem.edu/~thjones/hist/hist_mic.htm
• Microscope Primer
• http://microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/index.html
• Cells Alive!
• http://www.cellsalive.net/
• Minerals under the Microscope
• http://www.mineralarts.com/micromin/micromin.html
• Virus Image from Mississippi State University Electron Microscope Center
• http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/EMC/virus.html
• Virtual Microscope: Histology Slides
• http://www.dccc.edu/virtualmicroscope/VMPage/very1st.htm
• Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Health Sciences Microscope Images
• http://www.wadsworth.org/databank/index.htm
• Pond Water Images and Information
• http://micscape.simplenet.com/mag/wimsmall/smal1.html
• Iowa State Entomology Images
• http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/
• Feather Photomicrographs
  • http://microscopy.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/feathers/feather.html
• Butterfly Wing Scales
• http://microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/phasegallery/butterflywing.html
• JayDoc HistoWeb from University of Kansas: Cell and tissue images
  • http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/
• Cancer Cell Cam
• http://www.cellsalive.net/cam1.htm
• Bacteria Cam
• http://www.cellsalive.net/cam2.htm
• Science and Photography through a Microscope: Photomicrographs by Dennis Kunkel
  • http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~kunkel/
• Plant Photomicrographs
• http://www.wisc.edu/botit/Botany_130/Anatomy/Cells_tissues/Cells_tissues.html
• Red Blood Cells
  • http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/rbchbs.html