Light Microscope-Cell Lab

Materials: 1 microscope, water, samples, slide, slip, paper, and pencil.

Procedures:
1. Take a sample that we collected from the park, and put it on a slide. (Make sure it is
small enough to fit under slip.)
2. Add a drop of water to the specimen on slide
3. Put a slip on top of the specimen
4. Observe the specimen under a microscope. (Adjust focuses and lens if necessary.)
5. Draw what you see from the microscope.
6. Repeat three times with three different samples.

Analysis: In the fly wing, we observed the cells - especially at the end of the wing where it was
thinner. The feathers had nothing interesting on them, but the individual hairs are a lot more
transparent up close.The leaf had many units or rectangles that made it up. There were a few
darkly colored dots that could have been dirt or possibly a plant disease.

Conclusion: We examined a bugs wing, a feather, and a leaf under a microscope, and realized
that when the specimens are magnified, most of the fibers that made them up were transparent.
However, there are so many fibers and cells that make up a specimen that it does not appear that
way when you look at it regularly.