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Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
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Black Smokers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This brief web article features black smokers and discusses the history of their discovery, the geologic processes creating black smokers, and the various life forms inhabiting this extreme ...
Water Bear part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Geographic Kids site features a "far out" fact about tardigrades, or water bears, along with a comical illustration.
Squid's Light to Inspire New Gadgets? part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Geographic Kids news article describes a nocturnal squid that uses a built-in flashlight to hide its shadow from predatory fish on the seafloor. Its unique light organ - composed of ...
There Are Algae in Your House! part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This lesson plan provides an activity in which students can learn about how algae is used in the food they eat. The lesson plan includes background information as well as instructions for in-class ...
We're in Hot Water Now: Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this National Geographic lesson, students will use National Geographic's Yellowstone internet module to learn about the processes that drive geysers. The activity involves learning about ...
Digging Up the Dirt on Soil Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This hands-on exercise introduces students, grades K-8, to the idea of soil as a habitat for many different organisms, links between the biological adaptation of an organism and the physical demands ...
Guide to Identification of Fresh Water Microorganisms part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This seven-page guide can be used to identify freshwater microorganisms. Categories include microscopic autotrophic organisms (i.e. algae), heterotrophic protozoa, other freshwater plankton ...
Marine Organisms for Aquaria and Their Required Maintenance part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website offers information about ordering and taking care of marine organisms for a 10-gallon aquarium, an economical way for students to observe a mini-intertidal ecosystem of invertebrate life ...