1. Lesson #2: Plant and animal cells
Objective:
Draw and label plant and animal cells
Create your own animal cell slide

2. How do we know if these are plants or animals?

3. How many kinds of cells are there
How many kinds of cells are there? List as many as you can in your notebook at your table.

4. 1.2a Plant or animal cell?
Animal cell
cell membrane
cytoplasm
nucleus

5. Plant cell 1.2a Plant or animal cell? cytoplasm vacuole chloroplast
cell wall
cell membrane
cytoplasm
chloroplast
vacuole
nucleus

6. Make a slide!
1. Scrape the inside of your cheek using one of the clean cotton buds.
2. Smear it onto a slide and add a drop of methylene blue.
3. Carefully lower a cover slip onto the smear using a mounted needle or sharp pencil point.
4. Place the slide on the microscope stage and focus on it under low power.
5. Change to a higher power lens.
6. Draw two or three cells.
7. Label the cell membrane, nucleus and cytoplasm.
8. Compare your slide with a plant slide, how are they the same? How are they different?

7. Homework
Write a simple description of the job of each part of the animal and plant cell,