BIOLOGY 101: Aquatic Creatures & A Brine Shrimp Hatchery

In our Biology 101 course, we finished the section on Aquatic Creatures.

To supplement the video lesson, JJ also read the material in the Guidebook, and watched videos on You Tube about different aquatic animals, such as whales and sharks. We also took a virtual You Tube field trip to a pond and identified the living creatures in it, such as tadpoles, water bugs, and mosquito larvae.
 

For a LAB, we hatched some brine shrimp, using Kit #29 in The Young Scientist Series.

Here, JJ is cutting an empty sodapop bottle in half to use as the hatchery.

Following the directions, he added the tiny shrimp eggs to the prepared salt water.

We placed the hatchery on a kitchen counter under a light to help keep the water warmer.

In a few days, the shrimp hatched and began to grow. This is a photo of some of them a couple of weeks after they hatched. 

The shrimp are drawn to the light for some reason. Here is a short video of them swimming towards  a flashlight in a dark room . . .

That concluded our Aquatic animal study. We also just finished the section on Avian (flying) creatures, and will post about that soon.