9/21/09 Diatom lab

Today we did a Diatom microscope lab. We will be doing work with diatoms this year, in part because Emily Porter-Goff is the RPI grad that is working with out class. If you want to learn about river diatoms, click on this website.

Note packet for Evidence for Evolution unit 2 is available for download here.

A complete SOP for the Light Microscope is available here.

Coming up:

• We will continue with the second unit, Evidence for Evolution. The presentations notes are available as downloads: Two slides per page in color or 6 slides in black & white, for printing by clicking these links. To download the PowerPoint presentation, with all the media, click this link. This package has to be unzipped. There is a viewer included, in case you don't own PowerPoint.

Students should finish working on the The worksheet packet for the first unit , and begin on the note packet for Evidence for Evolution unit 2 .

There will be a test this Friday.