Our Trip to the Science Lab

Today, my class and I took a trip to the middle school science lab. First, the teacher, Mr. Simon introduced himself. After that, he taught us how to peel a union because a union is a plant and we want to explore plant cells and animal cells. Mr. Simon told us to drop a stein of “Iodine” on the peel so we can see it under the microscope on its on slide. We prepared our own slides and cover slides. The teacher passed out cotton buds so we can rub them on our cheeks so some cells will stick on the cotton bud. We rubbed our cotton buds on the slides so we can put “Metholllynn Blue”, because if you don’t put “ Methollynn Blue” you won’t be able to see it under the microscope. I finished preparing everything that should be done and I went to one of the microscopes and zoomed into the cell… I observed the cell and the nucleus because I was using a light microscope that only can zoom in 20,000 times. As I was observing I saw something I had never seen before. I felt like I did an achievement observing the material that makes you live. As I was observing, I realized that there were kids behind complaining about how much time I have been observing the cell. So, I went back to my table and after a minute Mr. Simon announced that we can take the slides home. We rapped them with tissue paper. As I was going home, I was proud of myself. It was a really great trip!!

 By: RAW