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- 4th - 6th
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Students review slide samples take with a scanning electron microscope. They use a virtual electron microscope and their knowledge of cell structure to identify images shown to them. They discuss their observations. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students examine and investigate the parts of a microscope. They label a diagram of a microscope, complete a worksheet, and create a wet mount slide of an onion skin. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students make a microscope from a drop of water, learn the basic parts and functions of a compound microscope, prepare wet mount slides and view them under a microscope, and calculate magnification and field of view. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students participate in hands-on activities with prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses. They observe that light travels in wave form and identify the colors of the rainbow as different wavelengths. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 11th
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Students explore the use of microscopes and the creation of slides. They practice using, adjusting and viewing with a microscope. they view slides of familiar substances such as blood and fibers. In addition, they create slides using onions and cheek cells. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students will participate in a hands-on discovery of the life cycle of a monarch and a painted lady butterfly. They observe the egg, caterpillar, pupa and adult stages fo these butterflies. They will learn about the larval host and nectar source plants of butterflies. Cooperativey, they work create a class slide show of 5 Florida butterflies and their host plants. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students take measurements of the distance between the objective and the slide when in focus with each objective. They determine the diameter of the field of view at each power in order to determine the size of the cells being observed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students comprehend that karyotyping is a process in which chromosomes are cut from an enlarged picture and arranged in decreasing order of size. The cells to be viewed are first chemically treated to increase the number of dividing white blood cells and then treated with colchicines to stop mitotic division during anaphase. Lastly, the cells are burst open, stained and fixed. The slide is examined for well spread chromosomes, photographed, and karyotyped. Full Review »
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Students examine white powders with hand lenses. They discuss how Aristotle identified taste as a sense. Students discuss the four basic tastes as: salty, sour, sweet, and bitter. They are shown the black pieces of paper with samples of four white substances and students are shown how to use a hand lens or magnifying glass to examine them. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students examine white powders with hand lenses in this lesson. They use their sense of taste to identify four edible white substances -- rock salt, cornstarch, barking soda, and powdered sugar. They then view the white powders under the microscope. Full Review »