{"id":112509,"date":"2025-08-19T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=112509"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:46:19","slug":"science-detectives-microscopic-pond-life-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-detectives-microscopic-pond-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Detectives: Microscopic Pond Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Use a compound microscope to discover a variety of beneficial protists and other microscopic life living in a drop of pondwater. Learn to identify and examine protists such as Paramecium, Amoeba, Euplotes, and Volvox and explore how these single-celled organisms carry out the basic functions of life. Students will make wet-mount slides, become proficient in the use of compound microscopes, and learn how to calculate total magnification.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must be <strong>11 years of age or older<\/strong> for this program. This is a drop-off program, but adults must stay in the Museum during the program time.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.ticketapp.org\/portal\/product\/83\/event\/fcdc44ec-54e3-419e-9d96-653bb36926a5\"><b>REGISTER NOW!<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact <a href=\"mailto:melissa.chernick@naturalsciences.org\">Missy Chernick<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences. Use a compound microscope to discover a variety of beneficial protists and other microscopic life living in a drop of pondwater. Learn to identify and examine protists such as&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-detectives-microscopic-pond-life-2\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5,11,23,7,185,8],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/112509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/112509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112509"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=112509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}