Pictures from Time to Chit Chat Part 2...

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Time to Chitchat - Part 2

I really have no idea what part of this is for homework, so I'm just gonna finish it all... it'll be helpful in the future... I hope.  Well, kudos to Cannon for making us do this; other than being confusing, it's a good idea and a promising personality expresser... it'll really help you get to know your students if they do it right.  Like I said, kudos.

Secondly, I love snow days.  They are so the bomb.  It's like gaining a little extra bonus... I walked my dog three times today, just because I could.  I really didn't do much else, but that felt really good after the past few weeks.

And now, onto the continuation of "Time to Chitchat."  Again it will have two sections, Notes and Response.  Enjoy...

Notes:

Okaaaaaay, time for a virtual pond dip... at the Virtual Pond Dip link... SOURCE.  

Sounded intriguing... this site had great organization.  When you clicked on an organism, it showed a new page and a version of the Five W's on each!  Really cool.  I did some reading up on hydras, as I remember a little bit about them from Science 10.  I would recommend you check out this VIDEO.  It's of a hydra shrinking and extending - I thought it was super cool, and because I love you, I included a video still... it was really cool.  Next I looked up Amoebas!  It's kinda like the name Obama... it just sounds too cool... not that I'm all impressed with Obama (read the newspaper tomorrow!) but it's just a cool word.  I thought it was interesting with all the talk we do about Amoebas that they are all throughout pond water, but they are not abundant.  Again, I found a sweet picture... below... it looks like a sunshine!  How they move is cool, too... the walk on their little finger-like extentions called pseudopohia... I found that so interesting because the word is quite similar (it has the same root) as Pseudonym which means a fictitious name or a pen name SOURCE.  So I looked up literal translation of the root (obviously I'm an english person...) and I don't know how this fits, but from the same original translation site, I found out it means fake or counterfeit... if you have ideas, lemme know.  Nevertheless, cool site.  The list of Protists you could fit on this site were Amoebas, Volvox, Stentors and desmids. 

Next I went to the "Fun Science Gallery" and watched movies on Euglenids, Ciliates and Amoeba's SOURCE.  I found out that Euglenids are classifed by having one or more flagella and they have a photosensitive red stigma spot.  Sometimes they live solo, but they also sometimes live in colonies... cool beans.  Sadly though, none of the videos from this site would play... maybe a computer issue?  I continued with my reading on Ciliates (a varied community of aquatic microorganisms that have cilia and they feed on bacteria, protists and rotifers) and Amoebas (that can have protective shells).

At the Protista Tutorials site SOURCE, I watched quite a few of the movies, hoping to tell you I had a favourite... but none stood out, they were all so interesting!  I loved this site... I think it was so cool, the movies should have been put to music :P

Amoeba Streaming was an interesting site too SOURCE - watching all these movies is so calming!  It was like watching a dance.  The first video I was thinking this, then I read the caption "Amoeba's are characterized by their flowing movements... and I'm like, "Yupp..."  I showed my mom... she said it was like a drug trip... I found it calming... she said it wasn't Youtube... she's like that.  I think VIDEO 5 was my favourite... it looked like space... but it was really the "jellylike cytoplasm."

Euglena Swimming was interesting.  Not as cool as the site before, but again, it had that calming effect with all that swimming and spinning and vibrate colour SOURCE.  By the way... were the links for Euglena Swimming and Paramecium on the Go meant to be the same?  Because it was for me... I was confused.

Biology of Protists was LONG SOURCE!  But it had lots of nice pictures to keep me entertained, many of which I'll include in the following post of tonight :)  I love it's defination; good for people like me that need a extra explaination, "Cells with a nucleus are called eukaryotic cells.  Single cell eukaryotes are called protists."  So good.  I only skimmed the rest of the site and looked at pictures because I've been working on this for two hours, but that solo defination left a good memory in my mind.  

Protists up close was very interactive SOURCE - it was nice to be able to hear instead of read.  We learned about what organisms live in pond water.  Amoebas, Vorticella, Euglena, Paramecium, Volvox and Spirogyra.  I thought it was interesting the way that Amoeba's move and catch prey, but pushing forward their cytoplasm.  The way the Euglena have chloroplasts that can turn ponds bright green with lots of light.  The way that Vorticella will attatch itself to large plants and algae and it's defense mechanisms.  The way paramecium can travel four times it's length in a second!  Spirogyra have chloroplasts and are producers are are a fifth of the thickness of a human hair, and how volvox live in colonies of 500!  This was a way neat site!

And that's all for now, folks!  Have a great night!

Response:

A Virtual Pond Dip - REALLY cool.  I like.

Fun Science Gallery - good, solid info... vids didn't work though :(

Protista Tutorials - The movie worked :)  SO COOL!

Amoeba Streaming - Neat.  It put me to sleep, in a good way.

Euglena Swimming - again, interesting and calming.

Biology of Protists - 

Protists up close - I love being read to.  It was nice and easy to follow.

Time to Chitchat

To begin with, I hope we have no school tomorrow.  Woot.  This section will be divided into two parts - Notes and Response... so read on, fellow Bio 11ers!

Notes:

A beautiful Ameoba, Paramoecium, and Euglena diagram for you visually minded folks... SOURCE

I know... killer, right?!  But what else did my wandering mouse discover?  Why this wonderful slideshow about the Kingdom Protista... SOURCE.  This slideshow talked about Classification (free-living, Eukaryotic and the 3 types - animal, plant and fungus-like)  It discussed whether Algae was a actually a protist, and it included lots of pictures!

My next link was a page not found!  But I didn't and wouldn't let a little thing like that deter me!  So I went on to the next link on Pond water!  SOURCE  It was very intriguing and interactive... I liked how you could click on your choice of organisms!  I spent most of my 

time on this site reading up about "Desmids."  Desmids are green algae that are very 

beautiful... so much so, I had to include a picture... or three.  They are like me... very particular about where they live and come in many different shapes.  I really liked this site!

And then I found out, 4 sites in, that this wasn't homework, and I'd stayed up late working.  So, I spun around in my spinny chair, and hopped into my bed.  That's part of biology, too, right?

Response:

Diagram site - nice... quick, organized, easy to follow.

Slideshow - loved how it was point form, lots of nice picutres.

Notes and Assignment link - page not found?

Pond Water - very interactive and detailed!  Probably my favourite of the sites!

Welcome to the Gong Show

This blog was created to dazzle, excite, and tickle you pink with intriguing facts regarding PROTISTS (AKA, protozoa, algae or lower fungi), members of the Kingdom Protista, a eukaryotic, typically unicellular (a single cell), microscopic organism. They sometimes have similar characteristics to animals or plants... SOURCE. Ready to be amazed? Read on...