BES Facebook groupBrine Shrimp Ecology
by Stephen Tomkins & Michael Dockery
This book finally lays to rest the erroneous idea that ecology is soft science. 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 photocopiable worksheets, teachers notes, secondary data exercises, technicians guide and background information together with brine shrimp eggs and enough bacterial and algal innoculum to start off your first ecosystem in a bottle. Especially developed for secondary science at Keystages 3 and 4 (where ecology particularly needs livening up) 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. Children and young people (of any age!) find a bottle ecosystem with brine shrimps, algae and bacteria fascinating and it is a useful focus for a discussion.
Available from:
Blades Biological are able to supply both Brine shrimp eggs and algal cultures and copies of the "Brine Shrimp Ecology" book while it is in print.
Downloadable material (provided copyright free)
Introduction to Brineshrimp Ecology
[Adobe PDF, 2024 Kb]
Please note that the contact details and telephone numbers contained in this book are no longer relevant.
