1. Science
Open your books and take notes. This information will be included in a weekly pop quiz and in the final quiz.
Next lesson I will be giving you a pop test that is 5 questions long. You will need to study these notes in order to know the answers.

2. Anton van Leeuwenhoek Microscope maker
For homework you read a factual recount about a man who was born more that 350 years ago who is still remembered today because of his hobby.
Microscope maker

3. Anton van Leeuenhoek
Highlight six things that Anton saw using his microscope?
How much larger could he magnify an object? Highlight this a new colour.
What were the names of the two royal people who visited Anton to view his little ‘animalcules’? Highlight this a new colour.
What did Anton do that made his hobby become very important? Hint: He didn’t just find these microscopic animals. Highlight this a new colour.

5. Why is what Anton did so important?
Why would I want you to learn about the man who made microscopes?

6. Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to ever see small ‘animalcules’ in a drop of water. We now call them micro-organisms.

7. He was the first man to see the cells in a drop of blood.

8. He was the first man to see the sperm of rabbits.

10. What might the word microscope mean?
Micro – from ‘mikros’ meaning small
Scope – to see or to look carefully at something. To scan or scope.

11. Early microscopes

12. Modern microscopes

13. Why yeast?
Yeast is a micro organism

14. What are the different types of micro-organisms?

15. Do you remember the story of the two old men who had never brushed their teeth?

16. What Anton saw:

17. Fact #1: Micro-organisms come in many shapes and varieties.

18. Penicillin:
We are going to be learning about a variety of micro-organisms especially helpful micro-organisms like yeast which is used to make bread and micro-organisms like penicillin that is a medicine we use.

19. How has discovering microorganisms and inventions such as the microscope, changed people’s lives?
This is our inquiry question that we need to be thinking about.

20. What we THINK we know
What we WANT to know
What we LEARNED
HOW we know

21. www.membean.com – for looking up Greek and Latin roots.