5. Cell Parts Lab
Learn about cell parts and structure with lab
activities, using a microscope. Look at onion cells
under a microscope at different power strengths.
Have students draw what they see under low and
high power.
Students can perform a lab by taking animal cells
from the inside their cheek with a swab. Then they
can create a microscope slide by wiping glass with
the used swab. After examining the animal cell
structure, students should name all the parts of
plant and animals cells and the differences
between them.
6. Flip A Coin DNA Lab
Students can invent their own Punnett square by
flipping a coin. Take two coins and use heads as
dominant, tails as recessive. Flip both to get alleles
for the mother, then flip both to get alleles for the
father.
Pick fun traits for what these alleles mean: the
dominant trait may be purple hair and the
recessive trait may be green.
Write these on a Punnett square and find out the
phenotype of their offspring. To continue the lab,
invent new partners to mate with one of the
offspring to continue watching how genetics work.
