This is a two semester course but students are welcome to add at any time.

Light lectures will be done at the beginning of every lab to provide students with the information needed to perform the lab with understanding. At times, the students will also be required to complete some additional work at home to prepare for upcoming labs. 

Students will be expected to complete the labs and will be assigned grades for their work and participation. 

It is important to understand that this course only fulfills the lab portion of a biology curriculum. The students should be doing their own biology curriculum at home in addition to this lab class.

This lab course can be used with any biology textbook and we have charts available showing correlation of experiments to many common textbooks.  

Check with your school to ensure this lab course will comply with a-g requirements.

Students will use the QSL Biology Lab Manual (included). 

Fall Semester

Introduction to the Microscope
Wet Mounts and Microscope Drawings
Prepare and View Plant Cells
Prepare and View Plant Cells, part 2
Prepare and View Animal Cells
Osmosis and Cytoplasmic Streaming
Mitosis
Forms of Bacteria
Bacteria Around Us
Protista
Fungus
Fungus, mushrooms
Fungus, yeast

Spring Semester

Fungus - Yeast
Monocot vs. Dicot (leaf, root, stem)
Parts of a Flower
Plant Leaves
Lichen
Dissection: Sea Star
Dissection: Worm
Dissection: Crayfish
Dissection: Grasshopper
Dissection: Fish
Blood
Muscle
Bone
Genetics
Dissection: Frog