what we did in class 11/1/09

This week in class we had been learning more about cells and how they worked. We looked under a microscope at a potato cell and cheek cells we drew what we had seen. On one test we look a thin slice of potato, put a drop of water on it and look at it under the microscope. On another test we used Methionine Blue instead of water and you could see the object under the microscope clearer. On the next test we used a orange liquid instead of the Methionine blue and could see the potato sample even clearer. On the last test we looked at a sample of grass under the microscope. For the cheek cell wee took a toothpick and took sample of our cheek cell and looked at that under the microscope. We immediately agreed that the potato was a plant cell and the cheek cell was an animal cell.

After we did some research we learned the name of each cell part for both the animal and the plant cell. Now for homework this weekend we are going to research the function of each of the parts.