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Brine Shrimp Nursery

3-lab progression

Your students prepare salt water, hatch brine shrimp and then observe their hatchlings underneath the microscope. Students will use Pippi Pipette to transfer their newborn shrimp hatchlings into a petri dish for microscope viewing. Your students will fill out a birth certificate for their baby class pet. Students have an opportunity to share their research and observations with the class.

Molecules to Organisms

Have fun making the salty environment for your brine shrimp 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Starting the Eggs

Molecules to Organisms 

Enjoy observing the shrimp eggs and starting their growth.             4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Shrimp Research 

Molecules to Organisms

Observe your baby shrimp

4-LS1-2: Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

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