Students discover microscopic organisms in pond water, identify them, and create digital videos using the electronic microscope in our room.

1.  The amoeba, a classic, one-celled organism, viewed at 400 times life size (400x).  This Amoeba proteus is about 1 mm long.

2.  Chloroplasts moving in an elodea leaf is an example of  cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells.

3.  Daphnia are sometimes called water fleas.  This is an animal, not a protist, like the amoeba, vorticella and euglena.

4.  Something's eating our elodea.

5.  An amoeba shows cytoplasmic streaming, and it has surrounded paramecia with its pseudopods - dinner!

6.  Cup-shaped vorticella vacuum up food particles with cilia and suddenly pull away from stimuli.

7.  Euglena move using flagella so small that they are not visible at 400X.

8.  A microscopic worm drags its duckweed leaf home behind itself, moving around on the glass microscope slide