Life, or Something Like It...

Today we collected water samples from the ponds in front of Castalia in hopes of finding some pond life. Our homework for the afternoon is to visit the Pond Life Identification Kit and the Smallest Page on the Web and choose three organisms from three different groups to draw and describe. The descriptions on the page are in short phrases, but since I'll be reading your descriptions they need to be in complete sentences. The information in your description should be information for identification.

Example: Water fleas can be almost six millimeters in length; you can barely see them with your naked eye. They have two large antennae that look like arms which they use to move through the water. They have a single, really dark eye. They look sort of like tiny penguins with arms like Frankenstein's Monster.

You need to go through this process for three organisms. If you get a spare moment take a look at the microscopy site by Mr. Lazaroff that shows you how to make wet mount slides, which we'll be doing tomorrow. I can't wait to see what you learn.