making an animal slide

• step 1 to making an animal slide

  Using your nail or an inner toothbrush, gently scrape the inside of your cheek
• step 2 to making an animal slide

  smear the material gathered onto the centre of a microscope slide
• step 3 to making an animal slide


  carefully lower a coverslip on top, as describe above
• step 4 to making an animal slide

  observe using a light microscope, first at low power, then using high power