Microscope Activity: Cooperative Learning

Principal Investigator__________________

Materials Manager__________________

Recorder/Reporter__________________

Technical Advisor__________________

Materials Needed (per group of 4-5):

1 microscope

1 prepared slide of human lung

1 prepared slide of human lung - adenocarcinoma

1 prepared slide of human colon

1 prepared slide of human colon - benign polyp

1 prepared slide of human colon - carcinoma

Time Required: 40 minutes

1. Within a group of 4, assign each person one of the cooperative learning roles. For a group of 5 students, split the role of recorder/reporter into two jobs.

2. Using one of the prepared slides, focus it under 10x magnification.

3. Draw and label the slide on the lab sheet.

4. Repeat this for all of the slides. Make sure that all of the students in the group have looked at each of the slides under the microscope.

Use the space below to draw and label each of your slides.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lab Questions:

1. Compare and contrast the normal lung cell with the cancerous lung cell.

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2. Compare and contrast the normal colon cell with the benign polyp and the cancerous colon cell. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. what is the difference between a benign polyp and a cancerous tumor of the colon? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

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