Activity 1`:` Take a conical flask and collect the water in it from a pond having stagnent water and aquatic plants. Add some wheat grans and aquatic plants to it. Keep it for 3-4 days so that wheat grains and plants will decompose. Early in the morning on fourth day, take a glass slide and put a drop of that water over it. Carefully, put a cover-slip on that drop and observe under compound microscope.

Explanation

Observation `:` Many organisms like Paramoecium,Amoeba,Euglena and bacteria ,that perform binary fission as a form of asexual reproduction can be seen under the microscope. Also, a variety of other microbes like algae, protozoans and certain fungi mayalso be observed depending on the source of pond water.