Description
In this lab activity, students will classify human tissues using prepared slides including connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous samples. This lab great way to train your students how to identify tissues by shape and detail when using a microscope. Labels for each microscope station are included for each tissue slide.
Important Information
- answer key included
- station labels for each microscope are included...just cut out, fold in half into paper tents, and tape next to microscope
- perfect activity for biology and anatomy & physiology classes
How it Works
- Students will observe 6 prepared slides and draw identifiable color pictures of each using map pencils.
- If you use this as a station lab, you can have two or three microscopes per station and have students rotate using a timer.
- Free online timer app on your projector - Classroom Timers and Fun Timers
TEKS Covered – UPDATED 2025
Lab TEKS – B.1A, B.1B, B.1C, B.1D, B.1E, B.1F, B.1G, B.1H
B.5B) prokaryotic + eukaryotic cells - compare and contrast structures + functions
B.6B) cell specialization - cell differentiation (into specific tissues)
NGSS Standards Covered
HS-LS1-2
Materials Needed
microscopes, prepared slides of human tissues including bone, epidermis, neuron, blood, cartilage, skeletal muscle, map pencils
This product is also part of the following money saving bundles
Related Resources
- Classifying Tissues
- Human Tissue Review – Interactive Online Boom Cards
- Task Card Stations – Human Tissue Comparison Cards
Terms of Use – copyright ©Catherine Skye All rights to this product are reserved by author. This authorizes one teacher to use this product. If you want to share it with other teachers, please purchase a license to share this work. Copying by more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited UNLESS you purchase a license. Clipart and elements found in this PDF and others on my site are from the public domain unless otherwise noted. All products on my site are intended for classroom and personal use and may not be digitally copied for reuse in any form. Any misuse is considered copyright infringement and violates the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
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Description
In this lab activity, students will classify human tissues using prepared slides including connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous samples. This lab great way to train your students how to identify tissues by shape and detail when using a microscope. Labels for each microscope station are included for each tissue slide.
Important Information
- answer key included
- station labels for each microscope are included...just cut out, fold in half into paper tents, and tape next to microscope
- perfect activity for biology and anatomy & physiology classes
How it Works
- Students will observe 6 prepared slides and draw identifiable color pictures of each using map pencils.
- If you use this as a station lab, you can have two or three microscopes per station and have students rotate using a timer.
- Free online timer app on your projector - Classroom Timers and Fun Timers
TEKS Covered – UPDATED 2025
Lab TEKS – B.1A, B.1B, B.1C, B.1D, B.1E, B.1F, B.1G, B.1H
B.5B) prokaryotic + eukaryotic cells - compare and contrast structures + functions
B.6B) cell specialization - cell differentiation (into specific tissues)
NGSS Standards Covered
HS-LS1-2
Materials Needed
microscopes, prepared slides of human tissues including bone, epidermis, neuron, blood, cartilage, skeletal muscle, map pencils
This product is also part of the following money saving bundles
Related Resources
- Classifying Tissues
- Human Tissue Review – Interactive Online Boom Cards
- Task Card Stations – Human Tissue Comparison Cards
Terms of Use – copyright ©Catherine Skye All rights to this product are reserved by author. This authorizes one teacher to use this product. If you want to share it with other teachers, please purchase a license to share this work. Copying by more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited UNLESS you purchase a license. Clipart and elements found in this PDF and others on my site are from the public domain unless otherwise noted. All products on my site are intended for classroom and personal use and may not be digitally copied for reuse in any form. Any misuse is considered copyright infringement and violates the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).







