Procedure

1st Station: SEM Work Time
We went through the procedure of setting up our sample for the SEM by putting our samples on the stub. And sprayed our stub with compressed air to make sure our samples were secure.

Drawing of our stub before we made the stub.

Picture of stub we used to make fiduciary marks and added pollen samples. 

Hannah spraying liquid air on our stub to remove all excess pollen from the surface.

And took pictures of our sample by zooming in our sample to 2000x and measured the size of our samples.


Leica Work Time:
At this station, we put the dried out flowers under the microscope. The pictures taken from the Leica microscope were very detailed and you could clearly see the pollen located on our three flowers. You can find these pictures on the post labeled: Flower Photos


Compound Microscope:
During this station, we created wet mounts of or samples using a growth media solution. We took pictures and drew our pollen at 400x. You can find these pictures on the post labeled: Flower With Sugar Solution Under 400x Power Microscope

Hannah taking a picture of a sample through the lens of the microscope.

Blog work time: Throughout stations 2, 3, and 7 was all spent working on our blog.