1. Mrs. Keener | Broadmoor Elementary School
What do cells look like?
Mrs. Keener | Broadmoor Elementary School

2. Do all living things look similar when you magnify them?
This is the question that your experiment answers
Guided Question

3. Objectives
Observe cork with the unaided eye, hand lens, and microscopes.
Describe and draw collections of cells.

4. Examine pieces of cork and record your observations.
Purpose
Examine pieces of cork and record your observations.
Summarize your research in three to five points.

5. Procedure Observe (Unaided Eye)
Look at the cork with just your eyes not using anything to magnify it.
(1 hand lens)
Magnify the cork.
Observe (2 hand lens)
Magnify the cork even more.
* Look at example in book (pg. 151)

6. Procedure Observe (Microscopes)
Look at the cork through the microscopes (low power and high power).
DO NOT MOVE THE MICROSCOPES! They are already set for you to see what you need to see.

7. Record you observations on the chart provided.
Data/Observations
Tool
Description
Drawing
Eyes
1 Hand Lens
2 hand lens
Low power Microscope
High power Microscope
Record you observations on the chart provided.

8. Complete the questions about the lab.
Write hypothesis before you begin the experiment. This should be your best educated guess based on your research.

9. Do all living things look similar when you magnify them? Explain.
Conclusion
Exit ticket: Answer the guided question on the stick note and post your answer on the exit ticket paper.
Do all living things look similar when you magnify them? Explain.

10. Tell me 3 things that you thought were interesting about today’s lab.
Journal
Tell me 3 things that you thought were interesting about today’s lab.