Microscope Lab

Day 1!

For the past week we have been working with the microscopes.  I have worked with microscopes before but usually just cells that the teacher had for us.  This time we were able to see the bacteria in the pond water and we were able to come up with other things on our own to work with.  First we tried some of our hair which the microscope showed the real color of our hair.  Then my group tried the pond water which we saw bacteria moving around and then we let it sit there and it dried out and we couldn't see anything anymore.  After the pond water we just messed around and started trying random stuff.  Like the leaf root which we could see the lines that took the water up the leaf.

Day 2!

The next day we were trying actual cells so we took some from our cheek.  All we saw was some black spots everywhere it actually looked pretty GROSS!!!  After that we messed around with our fingernails and it din't show much but the dirt under them :)...  After we did the live cells we tried the onion and we could see the little circles that looked like live cells from our cheek.

I found a picture on the internet that looked like what our cheek cells were like and i found this one.  It is almost identical to the our cheek cells but ours were a darker.

I went and found another picture of a picture that looked similar to the onion we saw.  This is pretty much what the onion looked like that we had.