After observing our living zooplankton under the microscope we have been drawing it with ipads.
Have a look at our brine shrimps, they are only three weeks old now.
Drawing plankton on ipads
ZOOPLANKTON PROJECT: Drawing with ipads
In our Science class we have been drawing different zooplankton species with ipads
Have a look at our brine shrimps, rotifers and mysis.
Artemias are our favourites!
Have a look!
ZOOPLANKTON PROJECT:Hatching Brine Shrimp Eggs
This week we’ve prepared a salt solution and we’ve put two table spoons of brine shrimp cysts into it.
Brine shrimps are also called artemias or sea monkeys.
The eggs should hatch in 48-72 hours. Constant aeration is also needed.
We will keep you updated about our babies!
The secret life of zooplankton
In Science K5 we have been learning that inside a drop of water that you might collect from the sea are very tiny organisms. These tiny and often not so small living things are called zooplankton and phytoplankton.
We have living zooplankton in our Science Lab in preschool: mysid crustaceans, artemia (brine shrimps) rotifers and copepods.
We also have been listening to the story: Felipe the Flamingo, that isn’t pink because he does not eat artemia.
Flamingos get their pink colour from their food, the artemia.
One of these days we are going to observe our zooplankton under the microscope!
We are so thrilled!