Materials List: Thinking Small – Measuring Small Things

Each student needs:

Each group needs:

  • set of cut out Card Sort cards
  • laptop with access to the Internet
  • digital scale
  • scoopula
  • 25 g salt
  • weigh paper or small weigh dish ( a piece of paper towel can also be used)
  • 3 graduated cylinders (10 mL, 50 mL, 100 mL)
  • 2 micropipettes (different sizes)
  • 4 micropipette tips (at a minimum)
  • 2 beakers (one for sharps waste, one for measured liquid from micropipette)
  • compound light microscope
  • fixed slide with a microscopic organism
  • plastic pipette or dropper
  • clean slide + coverslip
  • paper towels
  • safety gloves
  • safety glasses

To share with the class:

  • laptop/tablet/computer with access to Internet and a projector
  • red food coloring
  • blue food coloring
  • beaker with pond water
  • paper towels
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