The Potato Lab 

A lab designed to locate plant cells and the structures found within them

Your Mission

Fill in your sheet with this:

Locate: ONE potato cell under high power

Label: cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, starch grains

Remember: No Air Bubbles!!!

Place the pointer on the starch grain

Procedure

1. Obtain the materials necessary to complete the lab.

Each Group Needs:

One Slide

One Cover Slip

2. Place one drop of stain - iodine on the slide  (wait one min.)

3. Add one cover slip using good technique

4. Use your good microscope skills to locate cell under high power (no bubbles!)

5. Obtain a signature

6. Draw THREE cells

7. Label ONE cell

How Will I Be Graded?

20 points overall
5 points for signature
5 points for labels
5 points for neatness and organization
5 points for good lab technique and following lab rules

When You Finish

Clean up scope

Rinse off slide and place on brown paper on black cart