Activity (Hands-On)Grades 5 - 7
Exploring Bioluminescence in Aquatic Animals
Materials List
Each pair needs: (providing a variety of items for students to choose from)
- Bioluminescent Organism Cut-Outs (PDF) - student choice (traced on black construction paper would be best)
- Bioluminescent Organism Cards (PPTX) (via the PowerPoint slides)
- Light-Up Your Dyes Student Packet (PDF)
- Light-Up Your Dyes Student Packet Presentation (PPTX)
- bottle of glow paint
- 0.3 meters of glow tape (1 ft.)
- meter of yarn (~3 ft.)
- 2 cotton swabs (for applying glow paint)
- 10 glow beads
- mini-UV light
For the entire class to share:
- Teacher-made deep-sea diorama (i.e., a large shoebox, without lid, whose inside is covered in black construction paper)
- black light
- liquid glue
- scissors
- tape
- black construction paper or thick black cardstock
- white colored pencil (for tracing organisms on black paper)