Read about what we have been up to in Year 8 Science over the first four weeks of the year from students in 8LIP4 and look at the top photos we have taken from some of the things we have viewed under the microscope.

So far in science we have been learning about the different types of cells and how to use a microscope. We have learned about the names of cells in animals, plants and humans. We made a paper diagram explaining what each cell is in the animal and human system. We have successfully learnt how to use a microscope and looked at so many different things including our hair, plants, material and bacteria. We learnt how to make wet mount slides and took lots of cool photos of what we discovered.

Aleisha Baker

In science we have been learning how to use the microscope which has been a lot of fun. My friends and I have been looking at all sorts of different things such as flower petals, dirty water, grass, hair and so many others. Some of my class mates even looked at a fly which was gross! We have also been learning about the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell. We have been looking at close ups of plant cells and I found out the plant cells have a cell wall and about the nucleus which stores and regulates DNA. I’m happy to have a school that can provide us with microscopes so we can have a closer and better vision of things.

Zarli Barker   

In science we have been learning how to use a microscope and the parts of a microscope like a stage and stage clips. We have also been learning about plant cells and animal cells and what they are made up of like the cell wall, cell membrane and cytoplasm.

Lincoln Barkla

In science we have been learning how to use a microscope and the parts of the microscope and learning about plant and animal cells. We have also been taking photos of the leaves and other things we have put under the microscope.

Tony Halkias

This year in science so far, we have learnt how to use a microscope and how to look at different things such as flies and plants. Once we got a good angle of the slide we then took a picture of it with the iPad. We have also learnt about wet mount slides and how they work. We also learnt about cells and how they have a purpose to our body.

Zeke Hallett 

In Science we have mainly been working on cells and looking at them under a microscope. We have learnt how to use a microscope, currently we are making a cell poster and have learnt about the difference between an animal cell and plant cell.

Josh Hodgetts 

In Science we have learnt how to use and focus a microscope. We have learnt about the different parts of a plant and animal cell. Plant and animal cells are different shapes and have some different organelles. We looked at onion under a microscope to see the shape of the cells at different magnification levels. We have learnt about the different types of microscopes and their uses, how the microscope was invented, the names of the different parts of a microscope and how to use a wet mount slide. We have learnt about people using science to change the way an animal or plant feels, looks, or reacts and we have learnt that we can make burgers without using animals by duplicating the cells.

Ruby Lemon 

In Science this year we have been learning about cells. We have been learning the difference between animal cells and plant cells. We have also learnt how to use a microscope and the different parts of the microscope. On one of our double lessons, we went outside and found some objects outside that we could view under the microscopes. We gathered flower petals, grass, dead grass, leaves and someone even got a fly. Now we are making posters of animal cells and plant cells.

Tori McMillan 

For the past 4 weeks in science, we have been learning about cells and microscopes. When learning about microscopes we were tasked with taking photos of our findings. We learnt the parts of the microscopes and learnt to look at cells under the microscope. We have now been tasked with making cell posters and labelling each part of both an animal and plant cell. This unit has been very fun so far with Mrs Parsons.

Dallas Michalanney 

In science this year we have learnt how to use a microscope and I also learnt how to make a wet mount slide and take pictures of the microscope with the iPad. We have also been learning about different types of cells, these were plant cells and animals cells.

Jacob Swift 

We have been using the microscope and looking at things on it. We learnt how to make a wet mount slide and we have been learning about all the parts of animal and plant cells and how they work.

Dominic Wakefield 

We have learnt how to use and focus a microscope and learnt about all the different parts of the microscope and what every bit does. We used a wet mount slide and put things on it and put it under the microscope to see how different objects look. We have also learnt about all the different parts of the animal and plant cells and the different organelles.

Alexa Young 

In the past 4 weeks in Science we have learnt about cells. Right now, we are learning about animal cells and plants and about their parts. We have also been looking at things in the microscope like bugs, plants and flowers and learning about the parts of it too. We have also learnt how to make a wet mount slide.

Brianna Young 

In science this term we have been learning about cells. We have been exploring the different cells like animal and plant cells. We have been learning how to use a microscope properly and we gathered pieces of hair and things we found outside to look at through the microscope. We also made a wet mount slide to look at some dirty water that our teacher gathered for us and the cells in an onion. We also learnt how to identify the different cell organelles like the cell wall, cell membrane and nucleus.

Phoebe Young