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Paramecium
The paramecium experiment on this page is from:
Janice VanCleave’s
Play and Find Out About Nature
Water Critters
Round Up These Things
2 left shoes: 1 large, 1 small
3 sheets of construction paper: 1 white, 1 red, 1 blue
pencil
scissors
glue
glitter (any color)
marking pen
Procedure
| 1. Set the large shoe on the white paper and the small shoe on the red paper.
2. Draw around the sole of each shoe. 3. Cut the sole shape from each piece of paper. 4. Cover the edge of the underside of the small red paper sole with glue. 5. Glue the red paper sole to the top of the larger white paper sole so that the red sole is about in the middle of the white sole. 6. With the scissors, cut slits in the large sole up to the small sole to make a fringe around the entire edge of the white paper. 7. Pace a spot of glue about as large as a quarter in the center of the red sole. 8. Cover the spot of glue with glitter. 9. Glue the white sole to the blue sheet of paper. Label the blue paper Paremecium. So Now We Know Pond water contains some living creatures that are so small they cannot be seen without a microscope. Some of these creatures are made of only one cell. The paramecium is one such creature. This creature is often called the “slipper animal” because it looks like the sole of a shoe. It moves around by fluttering hair-like structures called cilia that cover the outside of its body. You have made a paper model of a slipper animal. The white paper fringe represents the cilia. The glitter spot represents its control center, which is called the nucleus. |
