Our nine
oldest students are participating in classes on using a microscope and making
slides. To start off this class and
after watching a video on the parts of a microscope, students were paired and
asked to find those parts on their microscope – which were all different from
the video! This was more challenging
than students thought as they got to explore all of the knobs and parts of
their microscope. The following classes
and centers found us exploring premade plant and animal slides, objects and
then making our own slides! Students
were very interested in looking at the homemade onion and spinach leaf cell
slides. We even got a chance to dye our
onion cell so that it was easier to see under the microscope. To finish off this unit, we’ll be looking at
some human cells (cheek and skin) so that we can compare them to the plant
cells we observed.
