plants/microscopes
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plants/microscopes
Best plants apart from onion for year 7's to look at? We will cut the plants for them, because yr 7's can't be trusted with sharp things these days.
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Re: plants/microscopes
Celery?
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Re: plants/microscopes
I haven't done it for a while, but from memory at my old school we used to have an aloe vera plant and if you put a small spot of clear nail polish on it and let it dry then peel off you get a nice layer of cells to look at.
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Re: plants/microscopes
A small amount of mashed banana and iodine stain.
Lou P.
Learner Lab Technician
Wagga Wagga
NSW
Learner Lab Technician
Wagga Wagga
NSW
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Re: plants/microscopes
Can use the nail polish technique with agapanthus too.
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Re: plants/microscopes
Our school uses geranium leaves a lot. Can't say I've actually had a look under the microscope myself though, so not entirely sure why on this plant in particular