A Dozen Things to do with a Bag of Paramecium.
NABT National Convention, 2002, Cincinnati, OH

Twelve  Exercises

Donald Cronkite has been doing research with Paramecium since 1964 when he was an undergraduate student at Indiana University.  He has done research on and published papers about several species, including P. octaurelia, P. caudatum, P. bursaria, and P. calkinsi.

Since 1991, Donald has been working with high school teachers at the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Institutes for Teachers and at the Toucan Project at his own Hope College.

For 25 years he has been a Professor of Biology at Hope College in Holland, MI. 

Other Paramecium sites

How to grow them

Where to get them

In the picture at the center, Donald Cronkite convinces 10 Paramecium bursaria to perform a tricky behavior.

This site is dedicated to T.M. Sonneborn (1905 – 1981) who opened up the world of Paramecium to me.

Cronkite's publications on Paramecium