Laboratory 5: Cell Division and Mitosis

Materials:
- Slides
- Stain
- Onion Root Tip
- Pipe Cleaners
- Plastic Rings
- Beads

Exercises:
- Look at the different stages of mitosis
- Recognize the differences between plant and animal cell division
- Look for dividing cells in plant
- Look if mitosis occurs everywhere throughout the plant body
- Look how to make chromosomes visible
- Find the difference stages of mitosis and what they do (interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis)

Laboratory 4: Diffusion and Osmosis

Materials:
-Microscope
-Brownian movement
-Timer
-IKI
-Methylene Blue
-Agar plate
-Thistle Tube Apparatus
-Hot Water Bath
-Cold Water Bath
-Dialysis Tube
-Thermometer
-Beakers
-String
-Perfume

Exercises:
- Learn where the energy comes from (movement of molecules in diffusion)
- Learn if gases diffuse into other gases
- Learn if liquids diffuse into solids
- Learn which membranes are selectively permeable or permeable
- Learn how warming the external environment affects diffusion
- Learn how cooling the external environment affects diffusion

Laboratory 3: Plants and Energy

Materials:
- potato
- sweet potato
- yam
- rudebaga
- apple
- pear
- prism
- slides of leaves
- stain

Exercises:
- Determine where the glucose is stored
- Determine what you would use to find sugars stored in plants
- Determine the cross-section of the plant and identify the structures and their functions
- Determine how plants acquire energy from sunlight for photosynthesis
- Determine where the chemicals for photosynthesis enter and leave the plant

Laboratory 2: The Microscope

Materials:
- compound light microscope
-stereomicroscope (dissecting scope)
-slides
       -the letter e
       -Threads
       -Paramecium
       -Volvox
-IKI
-water
-coverslip
-paper towel
-potato
-onion cells
-ruler
-lab manuel

Exercises
- Familiarize yourself on how to use the compound light microscope
- Familiarize yourself on how to use the stereo miscroscope
- Familiarize yourself with the different parts of the compound light microscope
- Familiarize yourself with the different parts of the stereomicroscope
- Learn how to make we mount slides
- Learn how to stain slides
- Use the information you learned throughout Part I in a forensic crime simulation.

Laboratory #1 Scientific Method Lab

Materials:
- Blind
- Coin
- Computer
- Data Sheet

Exercises:
- Perform an experiment on Therapeutic Touch
- Test hypothesis that humans have energy fields
- Test hypothesis that humans can identify energy fields