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Students will use water drops and hand lenses to begin the exploration of magnification, and will be introduced to the microscope

Tools of Magnification
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Students will learn that all organisms are composed of cells and will make slides of cells from an onion skin and Elodea to observe under a microscope.

Magnifying and Observing Cells
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