ANIMAL AND PLANT CELLS

All animals and plants are made of cells. Animal cells and plant cells have feaures in common, such as a nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane, mitochondria and ribosomes. Plant cells also have a cell wall, and often have chloroplast and a permanent vacuole.

Here we show some animal and plant cells made out of plasticine by our students of year 5.

INVESTIGATING WITH MICROSCOPES

We have different types of microscopes at the Science Lab:

OPTICAL MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

OPTICAL MICROSCOPE WITH MIRROR SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE WITH LIGHT SOURCE

Students worked in pairs to carry out two different tasks:

TASK 1

Choose two animal samples and two human samples. Observe them with the binocular microscope and draw your observations in the sheet below.

TASK 2

Choose one sample. Observe it with the different magnification objectives and draw what you see in the observation sheet.

SAMPLES

YEAR 5 C

CELLS