Welcome & Lab Blog Post Instructions by Gwen

Welcome to your lab blog!

I hope that you finally have access to the blog.
Starting next week, you all will start posting here.
You will post:

• Mystery Pond Water Organisms (due by Friday, April 15th @ 5pm)
• Note: One post per group
• Mystery Petri Dish Bacteria (due Monday, April 18th @ 9am)
• Note: One post per student

I will detail what I expect from you for each post right here on the blog.
Please refer to my instructions for each post.
Instructions for Mystery Pond Water Organisms posted below.
Also, you will be expected to comment on someone's post each week.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Mystery Pond Water Organisms Post
Instructions (highlighted in yellow):

Title your post
Please write the title (Area at very top before box where you write your post) of your post as: Mystery Pond Water Organisms by [put your group name*] 
*if you do not have a group name, make one up

Then, in the section where you write content, I expect you to write:

Group Members
List names of people in group at top, like this: 

Super Awesome Group: Gwen, John, Tom, Joe

Assignment Content
For this post, I would list as follows:

1) Organism 1: Volvox spp.

A-C. Taxonomy: (List at least Domain, Kingdom, Phylum/Division, & Genus)
Domain:  Eukaryota
Kingdom:  Plantae
Subkingdom: Green Algae
Phylum:    Chlorophyceae
Order:  Volvocales
Family:  Volvocaceae

Genus:  Volvox

D. Defining characteristics of organism

• Spherical organism
• Colony composed of numerous flagellate cells 
• Daughter colony held within larger mother cell/colony
• Gelanteous matrix of green dots (aka  "extracellular matrix")

E. References used:

• Live Volvox in lab
• Slide of volvox,
• Photos on lab poster
• Handout- Guide to Fresh Water Microorganisms (see here)
• Photos on internet when I searched for "Volvox"

2) Organism 2:  ...

(continue listing your organisms until you get to all 4 organisms).

After listing each organism, please list any other observations or comments, like this:

F. General Comments/Observations
We watched organism 3, the copepod, swimming around eating lots of the material in the sample... etc. etc...