Objectives:

• understand how to give a good presentation for the class
• find ciliates in your soil collection and get texture of the soil
• become familiar with the 11 classes of ciliates

Purpose:

The purpose of this lab is to find ciliates in your soil sample and be able to take a good picture and video to be able to present to the class. It is also to try and be able to identify what kind of ciliates you found.

Procedure:

• find the texture of the soil sample in the falcon tube by using a ruler to measure the amount of sand, silt, and clay at the bottom of the tube
• find the percentages of the sand, silt, and clay and put it in the USDA website to find out your soil sample texture
• if you haven’t found ciliates in your soil sample, continue to look for them, and if there isn’t any, use one of the soil samples from the bermuda grass that was collected to try and find the ciliates
• once you’ve found the ciliates and have gotten a good picture and video, start figuring out the format of the group presentation

Data:

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Results:

I finally was able to find a couple of ciliates from the bermuda grass soil sample which is shown in the video shown above. My soil sample texture fell under the category of Loam.

Future Goal:

My goal for next lab is to get with my group and put together our presentation for the class and rehearse it with them, so we will be very prepared and in our time limit.