Soil Food Web Discovery
What are the main players in this jigsaw of micro and macro organisms?
Microscope Lab Sheet
Gather soil from flower beds and compose piles and place small samples in petri dishes. Using dissecting and compound microscopes as well as probes search the samples for macro and micro-organisms. As you are surveying the soils take pictures of what you see using a cell phone, tablet or other device and send them to a cloud service or other storage drive that can be shared with your classmates and instructor so that the organisms can be identified. Print out the document below and as you view the macro and micro organisms not only take pictures please draw them while writing their names and the magnification.
Extracting Nematodes from Soil with a Baermann Funnel
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