Brine Shrimp Ecology
by Stephen Tomkins & Michael Dockery
This book enables you and your pupils to set up as many model ecosystems as you can find lemonade bottles and to use them for practical ecological investigations in the laboratory.
The book provides thirteen starting points for ecological investigations in the school laboratory with worksheets, teachers notes, secondary data exercises, technicians guide and background information. Although especially developed for secondary science at Keystages 3 and 4 and Scottish Science stages S1 to S4, the book is nevertheless full of ideas and resources for primary science and for post 16 biology projects. Young people find a bottle ecosystem with brine shrimps, algae and bacteria fascinating and it provides a useful focus for discussion.
Resources
The book is available to download, and is provided copyright free [Adobe PDF, 2024 kB]
Blades Biological are able to supply brine shrimp eggs and algal cultures to start off the ecosystems.