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Microscopic Life Investigation Three Elodea Elodea is a aquatic plant. Turn to page 15 in your packet. Read directions. Create a wet mount of the elodea leaf. One person will bring a slide, dropper, coverslip, and forceps to the back counter. Place materials on a paper towel. Identify your pond and place half of an elodea leaf on your slide using the forceps. Add 2-3 drops of pond water and cover slide with a coverslip. Dry, wash and secure all materials. Return to your table. Complete Part 1 and 2. Elodea Discussion Questions 1. What do you see when you look at the Elodea? 2. When you focus up and down through the leaf sample, what did you notice? 3. Are the rectangles flat, like designs drawn on the surface of the leaf, or are they three dimensional? 4. Are the boxes empty? 5. How many layers of these “bricks” do you see? Cell Size 6. What are the boxes or bricks that you see on the Elodea leaf? 7. Are all of the cells on the Elodea leaf the same size? 8. How many layers of cells are there in an Elodea leaf? 9. Are the large cells on the top of the leaf or the bottom? 10. How big are the Elodea cells? 11. Did you notice anything moving inside any of the cells? What did it look like? ELODEA NOTES Cells are the basic unit of life. The boxes or bricks that you see on the Elodea leaf are cells. Cells are the units from which the Elodea leaf is made. Cells are filled with a fluid called cytoplasm. Cytoplasm can sometimes be seen moving inside the cells of living plants. The green balls moving in the cytoplasm are chloroplasts. They give green plants their color. Part 2 and 3 What else was in the elodea slide? Were they alive? What makes you think they are/are not alive? What’s your evidence? What do you think they are? Complete Part 2 and 3 on p. 15. Make sure you write down and draw exactly what you see in the field of view. Discuss observations with table. Wet Mounts of Paramecium View Lab Techniques/CD ROM Bring slide, dropper, cotton ball, and cove