Home Chat  Blogs   Collection Directory
    My ScrapBook My Collections
The ProTeacher Collection  

Home : 2001 : June : 5

microscope subjects
By Julianne

Clip to ScrapBook   
Another fun thing to do is to grow brine shrimp and observe them under the microscope. You can buy brine shrimp eggs at tropical fish stores, or at the toy store marketed as "sea monkeys". Either way, you hatch the eggs in salt water. They can be fed tiny amounts of dry yeast. To view them best you can use a slide with a shallow well to hold a drop of water with a brine shrimp swimming around in it. I've found you can catch the tiny shrimp using an eye dropper, but wear your reading glasses! They're SMALL. Your students can view the eggs, the newborn shrimp and also view shrimps as they grow. They are fun to watch because they move.

 


BACK



The ProTeacher Collection - All rights reserved
For individual use only. Do not copy, reproduce or transmit.
Copyright © 1998-2008 ProTeacher®

Visit our ProTeacher Community



What people are currently discussing in the ProTeacher Community:
Words Their Way
Weekly vs. Daily???
Field Trip Tips
homeworkopoly
Multiplication Fact Test
Sacs
looking for a student record chart
Frindle
Report Cards
ideas for thanking firefighters?
he already read it!!!
Lucky code for OCT.
Calendar Time
Teaching Opposites???
extended response