Cells Under the Microscope
Science · Organisms & Life Processes · conceptual
Understand that all living organisms are made of cells and use a light microscope to observe, interpret, and record cell structure
What mastery looks like
- States that all living things are made of cells
- Prepares or examines a slide of cells (e.g. onion skin, cheek cells) under a microscope
- Draws and labels a diagram of cells observed
- Identifies nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane in a microscope image
Check your understanding
If Cells Under the Microscope prepared a slide of onion skin and looked at it through a school microscope, could they identify what they were seeing and explain that all living things are made of these tiny units?
Prerequisites
None — this is a foundational concept.