Student Exploration: Cell Types
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)
1. How do you know if something is alive? Describe some of the characteristics of living
things
cellular organization,metab
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Student Exploration: Cell Types
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)
1. How do you know if something is alive? Describe some of the characteristics of living
things
cellular organization,metabolism, reproduction,metabolism. Those are some of the
8 characteristics that rell something is alive. (study.com)
2. Humans, plants and mushrooms are all alive. What do these organisms have in
common?
Gizmo Warm-up
In the Cell Types Gizmo™, you will use a light microscope to compare
and contrast different samples. On the LANDSCAPE tab, click on the
Elodea leaf .
( Turning on Show all samples in this window and leaving it
checked makes it easier to find the samples included in this
Gizmo. )
Switch to the MICROSCOPE tab to observe the sample as it would
appear under the microscope. By default, this microscope is using 40x
magnification.
1. Drag the Coarse focus slider until the sample is focused as well as possible. Then,
improve the focus with the Fine focus slider. What do you see?
2. Select the 400x magnification. If necessary, adjust the fine focus. Now, what do you
see?
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The individual chambers you see are cells , the smallest functional unit of an
organism.
Activity A:
Observing cells
Get the Gizmo ready :
● On the LANDSCAPE tab, click on the woman’s
right arm to choose the Human skin sample.
● Select the MICROSCOPE tab.
Introduction: Complex organisms are made up of smaller units, called cells. Most cells are too
small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopes are used to magnify small objects, so here you
will use a compound light microscope to observe the cells of different organisms.
Question: What are similarities and differences between cells from different organisms?
Match the Microscope Parts-. Match the description to the part on the diagram. Put the letter
from the diagram on the line in front of the description.
(__) Stage: Platform where a slide is placed.
(__) Eye piece: Lens at the top of the microscope
that the user looks through. This lens most commonly
magnifies a sample by 10x.
(__)Coarse focus knob: Large knob that moves the
stage up and down to focus the sample.
(__) Fine focus knob: Small knob that moves the
stage over a short distance to refine the focus.
(__) Objective lens: A second lens that further
magnifies the sample. Microscopes usually have
several objective lenses with different magnifications.
The total magnification is the product of the eyepiece
magnification and the objective lens magnification.
(__) Slide: A rectangular piece of glass upon which a
sample is mounted for viewing under a microscope.
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