Education
Pandemic + You = Home-School Teacher
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One-to-one help setting a project up? This form is intended to get information from you so that ARS can deliver a customized product to you so that you can teach an aquatic science project. ARS will reach back to you usually in 24 hours with suggestions. ---Education Set Up Questions---
(1) Video Classes:
We are starting classes!!! They are open to everyone. Teachers, parents, and especially students are encouraged to join in.
- Tuesday: Using algae Beads (10:00am Pacific)
- Wednesday: Algae Culture Basic Class (10:00am Pacific).
- Thursday: Growing Brine Shrimp (Brainy Briny's) (10am Pacific)
Past Classes- Videos on YouTube
- Brainy Brinys, Brine shrimp and Nanno setup class
- Basic Algae Culture, Nannochloropsis
- Algae Growing Basics
(2) Lesson and Lesson Plans
- 200 Algae Projects: Algae Lesson Links We have curated a couple hundred lessons from across the wild internet. These links have been categorized. Use your best judgement if they look phishey.
- Algae Growing (Google document)
- Algae Bloom Investigation (Google document)
- Algae Bloom Experiment (Downloadable PDF)
- Brainy Briny's Teacher Primers: These plans are designed to walk you through the specifics of process and to get you and your students up to speed on the science. We aim to please, so if you have a specific process you would like us to write up, let us know! All of Brainy Briny's Teacher Primers are free!
- General Instructions
- Estimating Algae Biomass
- Estimating Zooplankton Biomass
- Growth Rate vs Irradiance
- Photosynthesis vs Irradiance Curves
- Nitrate Removal by Algae Culture
- Toxicity Testing using Brine Shrimp (LC50%)
- Carrying Capacity Based on Food Availability
- Carrying Capacity Based on Oxygen Availability
(3) Algae Culture supplies:
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Algae Beads |
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Algae CultureAlgae Culture Kits |
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Brine Shrimp Kits |
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 Algae and Zooplankton Kits |
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 Refills |
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Brainy Briny Classroom-30
$ 225.00
Classroom-30 comes with: 30x Culture Flasks, 250mL 30x Secchi Sticks 1x Algae Culture, 1,000mL 3x Algae Culture Salts (for 3.78L, 1-gallon...
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Brainy Briny: Everybody Gets One!!! 35-Student Kit
$ 175.00 $ 399.75
Complete kit for 35 students. Teaching and demonstration kit for instructor and students. The instructor can grow algae in a 600mL flask and brine shrimp...
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Brainy Briny Classroom-10
$ 125.00
Classroom-10 comes with: 10x Culture Flasks, 250mL 10x Secchi Sticks 1x Algae Culture, 500mL 1x Algae Culture Salts (for 3.78L, 1-gallon water)...
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Brainy Briny Refill-30
$ 112.50
We think that this kit is probably the coolest thing since the moon landing. We have made and remade, tested, retested and reformulated everything... fifteen...
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Algae Research Supply: Mother Culture Kit- Algae and Zooplankton
$ 99.95
These kits are designed to be used as a semi-continuous batch culture of algae and brine shrimp for experimentation (or production of brine shrimp). ...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae Culturing Project Kit for 25 Students: 7-14 day project. $3 per student.
$ 75.00
Students will use the scientific method to learn about the importance of algae in aquatic systems: the process of photosynthesis, algae's role in the food...
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Brainy Briny Refill-10
$ 62.50
We think that this kit is probably the coolest thing since the moon landing. We have made and remade, tested, retested and reformulated everything... fifteen...
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Brainy Briny: Demo Kit and Basics, 2 demonstration flasks (algae and zooplankton) and 5-basic sets
$ 39.95 $ 77.45
Teaching and demonstration kit for instructor and students. The instructor can grow algae in a 600mL flask and brine shrimp in a separate 600mL flask....
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Algae Research Supply: Spirulina Harvesting Screen
$ 27.95
This is an Algae Research Supply Spirulina Harvesting screen. It has been specifically engineered to separate colonies of spirulina from water. Videos of this device...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae Culture for Six Algae Strains for Classroom Investigations
$ 27.50
Algae survey kit includes 1.7mL or 50mL options for culture and a culture booklet: Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) Nannochloropsis Porphyridium Chlorella vulgaris Isochrysis Tetraselmis Algae culturing...
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Brainy Brinys Algae and Brine Shrimp Experiment Kit
$ 25.00
Brainy Briny is here!!! This kit is really 3-kits in one: (1) Algae culture kit for Nannochloropsis (2) brine shrimp culture kit (Artemia) (3) and...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae Bloom Experiment Kit: Is my local water likely to have an algae bloom?
$ 25.00
This is a kit that explores if YOUR local water could have an algae bloom. Hi Teachers, Students, and Parents, This lesson plan and...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae Research Kit: Culture and Supplies for a Science Project
$ 23.95
This is kit designed to give the student the tools to do a science project. It includes Starter culture, 50ml concentrated algae (Nannochloropsis) Culture Tubes,...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae and Zooplankton Education Kit
$ 19.99 $ 25.99
Algae and zooplankton can be used to help teach many lessons from the Next Generation Science Standards. We have designed this kit to be used...
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Brainy Briny: The Basic Kit, 5-Sets
$ 19.95 $ 49.45
The Basics is the least-cost way to get algae and brine shrimp into your classroom. You will need to supply all your own culture-vessels (water...
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Brainy Briny Refill-1
$ 12.50
We think that this kit is probably the coolest thing since the moon landing. We have made and remade, tested, retested and reformulated everything... fifteen...
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Artificial Sea Water Kit, 500mL
$ 9.99
This kit is to make down 500mL of seawater for algae culure. It contains salts and nutrients. You will need to provide a 500mL bottle...
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Algae Research Supply: Test Tube Rack 8-Hole
$ 8.50
TEST TUBE RACK POLYETHYLENE Stout, white, in line, for 8 tubes, holes in the top plate correspond with hemispherical depressions in the base. With side...
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Algae Research Supply: Algae Beads
$ 24.95 $ 36.00
Want a simple way to demonstrate photosynthesis and respiration? Use ALGAE!!!! Algae Beads from Algae Research and Supply are a simple and easy way...
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Algae Research Supply: Secchi Stick
$ 2.00
The Secchi Stick is a simple analytical device to determine optical density of a liquid. The depth at which the disk is no longer visible...
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Algae Research Supply: Tissue culture flask
$ 1.50 $ 3.00
This is our signature 50mL culture flask. It is great for growing algae or other microbes. It comes sterilized to our warehouse in packs of...
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Algae Research Supply: Self Standing Culture Tubes, 50ml
$ 1.00
Self Standing Culture Tubes
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Aquatic Science Puzzles
Free
Download puzzles and build your aquatic science vocabulary.
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Brainy Briny's Estimating Brine Shrimp (Artemia) Biomass
Free
This free download include instructions on estimating the biomass of Brine Shrimp. Here are two analytical methods to quantify the biomass of Artemia. Method-1...
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