Fledgling hedgehogs, you are about to embark on the "Quest for Cells."

Activities: You will work in groups of three for this activity. All members will share responsibility for the projects and keeping a journal of the results. You will use the Digital Blue microscope to view and record slide images of cork, onion skin, and cheek cells you've prepared.

Background Information

Cork Cell: View a thin slice of cork at 10X, 60X, and 200X through the digital microscope. Snap an image of the example that best illustrates the cell structure.

More Info:

Onion Skin: View a thin slice of onion skin at 10X, 60X, and 200X through the digital microscope. Snap an image of the example that best illustrates the cell structure with no stain, red stain, blue stain.

Cheek Cells: Prepare the slide with blue coloring. View the slide at 10X, 60X, and 200X through the digital microscope. Snap an image of the example that best illustrates the cell structure.

Pond Water: A drop or two of pond water conains many living things. These links contains videos of different organisms you may find in a pond warter sample. Please take a minute to look at them.

Protozoa Info

Ameoba

Euglena

Paramecium

Take a pond water sample and prepare a slide according to your teacher's directions

Multimedia Presentation: You will use your captured images to create either a PowerPoint presentation or a printed report. Label the "organelles" or Chloroplasts that appear in your images. Use text boxes and the "arrows" from the drawing tools to point out these features. Examples would be the nucleus, cell wall, etc. One paragraph, or PowerPoint slide must detail what you have learned during this project.

Click this link: Animal Cell to retrieve an animal cell worksheet you must label. Save the worksheet on your team secretary's home drive. Use this link to gather information: Animal Cell Info

Click this link: Plant Cell to retrieve the plant cell worksheet you must label. Save the worksheet on your team secretary's home drive. Use this link to gather information. Plant Cell Info

Click this link: Ameoba to retrieve the worksheet you must label. Save the worksheet on your team secretary's home drive. Use this link to gather information. Ameoba Info

Label These Worksheets:
Do you know the Anatomy of a Plant Cell, Animal Cell and an Amoeba? Print these works sheets: Plant Cell Worksheet, Animal Cell worksheet, Amoeba Worksheet and Label each of them.
These links should be helpful:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/cell/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/protists/labelamoeba/labelanswers.shtml

Click this link: Worksheet to retrieve the worksheet to accompany the following activity. You must type your answers on this sheet and save it to the student common drive in the folder named "Webquest" which is inside a folder with your teacher's name on it.

Follow the links to complete the tables on the worksheet:

Click this link to complete the table asking you to name the Chloroplasts of a plant.

Click this link to complete the table asking you to name the organelles of an animal.

Click this link to complete the table asking you to name at least three protozoa.

Grading Rubric