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Trouble Shooting

Selecting a Location:

~Be sure to bring extra safety equipment, especially if the location is on a steep hill or is slippery.

Suggested Safety Equipment:

 Walking Stick

            First Aid Kit

            Walkie-talkie or Cell Phone

            Water Bottle

~Before going outside, bug repellent, particularly for misquitoes, is recommended

~Be aware of plants, such as poison ivy, when you are outside

~After returning inide, check your body for ticks

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Advice for Algae Slides:

~Beware that microscope slides are delicate and made of glass. Be careful not to step on them and be gentle when removing them from the ground.

~If a slide breaks, tell an adult and be careful not to cut yourelf

~Be sure to closely mark the flags next to the slides; this will help to keep track of the virtually invisible slides.

~It may be helpful to hold the edges of the slides, when rinsing them with distilled water.

~Be sure to thoroughly rinse off the algae slides.

Advice for Worm Extraction:

~If there are many roots or other underbrush in the location where you are hammering, it may be helpful to use a trough to loosen the soil and to pull other hindrances out of the ground by hand.

~Be sure there is adequate space around the person hammering because bystanders could possibly get hurt.

~When counting earthworms, be sure to not place the tallied earthworms back into the bucket.

~Once the sifted soil is dumped back into the hole, step onto the soil in order to make sure that the soil is compact; this will prevent a ditch in which someone could get hurt.

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Advice for Counting Algae:       

~When counting algae, make sure you have correctly identified the microscopic algae, as you would not want count the incorrect organism.