Daphnia!

Friday (5/19) and Monday (5/22) we are beginning a new unit where we are developing and designing an experiment to carry out on daphnia, see below:

Today, we read background information about the daphnia, viewed the daphnia through the microscope to practice making slides and recognizing daphnia organs, and made list of variables we might want to test in our experiments during the next week.

Daphnia Background Reading

Daphnia Lab Packet

We will be writing our one full lab report in the next week and a half. It is much easier if it is done a little bit at a time. To help this process along, before next class, students should answer the background questions 1 & 2 in their lab packet.

Picture from Sicily Larkin (per3)

Video from Sorenn Francis (per3)