cheek cells

Cheek cells

Today room 4 were looking at cheek cells. We wanted to see what cheek cells would look like under the microscope.

Hypothesis
We will see some of the organelles in our cheek cells.

Equipment

lolly pop stick
slide 
sodium chloride
blue stain

Method

First we put the lolly pop stick inside of

our mouth and rubbed our cheek.

Then we wiped the lolly pop stick on the slide

Next we added a drop of sodium chloride on top of the slide

Finally we added a drop of methylene blue to stain the water blue. 

This meant that our slides were ready to go under the

microscope.

Observation

On the low magnification (10x) we could see tiny blue specs. We thought
these were our cells but we couldn't see any organelle.
On a higher magnification (100x) we could see the cell wall and nucleus
of a cheek cell.