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Culinary Investigation
Explore Plant Cells
Students investigate vegetables with Meeka Microscope to see that plants are made of cells.
Materials:
Potato + tomato
Peelers
Trash bag table cloth (one per student group station)
Dye (methylene blue and red iodine)
Meeka microscope
Petri dishes
Plant Cells Class Movie!

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes MS-LS1-2:
Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.
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