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Learn all about protozoa and utilize this wonderful three video resource in your classroom.  Much time was spent filming these programs enabling the viewer to see many things that probably wouldn't be seen in a standard protozoan lab.  Oil-immersion (1000X power) and phase contrast   optics were used throughout to obtain spectacular images.  The 72 page teacher handbook that accompanies the videos contains worksheets, puzzles, tests and a vast amount of valuable technical information.  Get all three and show your students this fascinating "wonder down under"!

Water Circus
Protozoans I
( for grades 5-12)

This wonderful 17 minute program introduces your students to the world of protozoa.  See how they are classified and contrasted to the metazoa.   The Amoeba, Paramecium, Peranema, and Volvox are examined in some detail and their means of locomotion and methods of obtaining or producing food is also illustrated.  This video can be used before your first lab or as stand- alone instruction.  It'll shed new light on pond scum!

Item # 301  (17 minutes)............ $79.
(includes 72 page handbook)

Synopsis and index of Tape I.

Teacher handbook information.

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In The Eye Of A Needle
Protozoans II
( for grades 7-12)

This 25 minute presentation is the second of the series and takes a  more in depth look at protozoa.  The micrometer is introduced and twenty different protozoa are shown along with their relative sizes.  The speed of a Paramecia is determined and , using phase contrast microscopes, many cell parts and organelles of various protozoa are identified.  Learn about the spring- like myoneme on the Vortricella, and many other cell parts like cirri, chloroplasts, nuclei, and contractile vacuoles (shown at left).  Protozoans so tiny that they can easily fit inside the eye of a needle!

Item #302 (25 min.).....................$79.
( Includes 72 page handbook)

Synopsis and index of Tape 2.

Teacher handbook information.

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Wonder Down Under
Protozoans III
( for grades 5-12)

In this 24 minute program, you will learn about the food chain, with emphasis on the relationship between producers, consumers, scavengers and decomposers.  Watch protozoa attack swarms of bacteria, the Didinium devour Paramecia and the scavenger Peranema at work inside the body of a dead rotifer!   Also, see reproduction in action and learn about the distinction between fission and conjugation.  Watch the last thread of protoplasm snap as one Amoeba splits and becomes two!

Item #303....................................$79.
( Includes 72 page handbook)

Synopsis and index of Tape 3.

Teacher handbook information.

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Order all three videos (save $38.)  Item #300 ....... $199.