iment GETTING AN EYEBALL FULL! You wit. NeeD bulls eye scfely glosses dissedion board forceps newspaper stereo microscope paper towelling woler sctllpel or razor blade CAUTION: In this activity you will be using sharp instruments. Discuss with your teacher and other members of the class a list of safety rules that should be carefully followed before beginning this activity. © Carefully ploce the bull’s eye on @ dissection board swhich hess been covered with newspaper and paper towelling. + Draw and label the structures of the bullseye before ‘and alter your dissection. (Use the diagram below fo help you to labe! the eye.) «Ade descriptive commen to your labels os you teks your observations threughout this cctv * Pulon sey glasses just in cate any of the aqueous of viroous humour squirts out at you. Aqueous and vitreous humour ae jlly-ike liquics which give eyes their shape. 2 © Carefully cut a smell window just behind the iis using « razor blade or scalpel. Record your observations regarding the toughness of he sclerotic coating. + From this winelow cut up end then ell the woy ‘around the iris :0 that you have cut the eye inio two paris «if off the top part of the eye end exemine theirs 1.What is the black port in the middle? + Remove the lens with forceps ond see if you con read the print on the newspaper through it. 2, What did you observe? + Use water to rinse out the jell-tike material {humour from inside the eye ond examine the retina 8. What does it look like® Can you find the optic nerve? « Follow your teacher's insiructions regarding the leaning of your equipment and disposcl of the clssected eye. 4, Summarise your findings in a foble underneath your labelled bull's eye drawings 5, What does the diaphragm in a microscope do? Which por of the eye does the diaphragm in monocular microscope most resemble? 64. Find out more about one of the parts of he eye that you have observed (e.g. it funtion, related diseases or surgery). , 3 boskt he 1, Floss bus eye on Seloed pet aici bon Fie oe cored vih tnd he block newspaper: Locale pat in ho Ee arose in cate (pup, Eh lected by 0 pi gh preetve ee eyes 4. Cota snl stindow in he ‘syeball. Ba careful 2 eee That the vireous humour nenw tise etd whe sled ens nln ost ibe he beck Sg on nee, Grd ercund te ‘ore some ft i ee ‘ores wind opti nerve —— cuting lines.Step i Sclera Optic Nerve Retina Look carefully at the bull's eye before you dissect it, Cut the fat and muscle away from the bull's eye. Cut near the sclera to remove it from the membrane that attaches it to the muscle.