Success Journal Oct. 23

Today all of my classes performed an osmosis lab using Elodea. The purpose of this lab was to demonstrate osmosis across a semi-permeable membrane within a plant cell. Before the lab I went over the lab and gave them a quick review over yesterday's information to help prepare them for the lab. The students were not very enthusiastic about looking at plant cells until they realized that the chloroplast within the cells actually moves. Once they were able to see that plant cells are living and moving organisms the students were curious and more interested in the actual experiment. Overall the experiment went great and the students became more familiar and aware of how osmosis works. Being able to use labs to demonstrate the information that we are teaching students is great and really helps facilitate the lessons.