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Winogradsky Column: Biosphere in a Bottle—Student Laboratory Kit

By: The Flinn Staff

Item #: FB1574 

Price: $43.20

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With the Winogradsky Column and Biosphere in a Bottle Laboratory Kit for biology and life science, observe microbial growth in your own personally constructed Winogradsky column.

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Students observe microbial growth in their personally contrcuted Winogradsky column with soil collected from their surroundings. Repeating the soil microbe-growing technique—made famous by the Russian microbiologist, Sergei Winogradsky—is fun and motivating. Over a several month incubation period, students will witness an array of protozoa, fungi, bacteria and algae as their Winogradsky column goes through its successive stages. Includes enough materials for 10 Winogradsky columns (chemical nutrients, wooden stirring sticks and complete teaching instructions).

Complete for 10 students groups. You supply the mud! The 10 columns included in the kit can be resued.


Specifications

Materials Included in Kit: 
Calcium carbonate, 50 g
Calcium sulfate, 50 g
Plastic soda bottle, 1 L, 10
Wooden paint stirrer, 10


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Analyzing and interpreting data
Developing and using models

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
MS-LS2.B: Cycle of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
HS-PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and effect
Energy and matter

Performance Expectations

MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
MS-LS2-3. Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.