Name______________________
Block____ Date______________
OBSERVATION LAB WITH THE STEREO DISSECTING
MICROSCOPE
T. Smith, Warrensburg R6 Middle School, Wsbg, MO. -
9/2005
You will use your microscope
and hand lenses to study the three items placed at your lab station. You will share these items with the
other two students at your station. Be sure to match the correct item to the
sections below and choose your words carefully, writing in complete sentences,
as you answer the items below.
PETRI PLATE (Moist Chamber)
1. Write three qualitative observations about the contents of
the petri plate.
A._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ B._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ C._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Write one quantitative observation about the contents of the
petri plate.
.___________________________________________________________________________________
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3. Write one inference about what you think the contents of the
petri plate are.
.___________________________________________________________________________________
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DEAD TREE LIMB
4. Write two qualitative
observations about the things ON the dead tree limb.
A.____________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________ B.____________________________________________________________________________
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5. Write two inferences
comparing the similarities between the things growing on the dead tree limb
with those in the petri plates.
A.____________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________ B.____________________________________________________________________________
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INSECTS
6. Write one
qualitative observations about each of the three insects.
GRASSHOPPER_________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________ BEETLE_______________________________________________________________________
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SOLDIER
BEETLE________________________________________________________________
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