Many of the lab activities we will be doing involve drawing from a slide using the microscope or from a preserved specimen. Drawing does not require you to be an artist. It only requires that you pay careful attention to detail, and give it your best effort. Follow these instructions for all drawings.

RULES FOR DRAWING:

1. Use pencil only.
2. Compare what you see through the microscope with what it is you should     see. Use pictures from the book or the side board to help you before     asking me to check.
3. All drawings should be done to scale or actual size. For microscope     drawings, use a petri dish to draw a circle of reference first. No more     than two drawings per side.
4. Work on each drawing for 15 minutes. This allows time to examine all the     details of the specimen. Spending more than 15 minutes is unnecessary.
5. Equal amounts of time should be spent examining the specimen and drawing     it. Do not draw from memory.
6. Don't feel the need to draw everything you see in the field of view. I     would rather see 10 cells drawn in great detail than 100 cells in poor     detail. Leaving blank space is O.K..
7. Print all labeled parts, neatly, on a horizontal ruled line.
8. Ruled lines should also connect labels to the object in which they describe.
9. Print the name of the specimen, neatly, on a horizontal ruled line     underneath the drawing. For microscope drawings, also include the power     of magnification.