Obtain a slide of a paramecium specimen. Place the slide under the microscope and view with the scanning objective. The paramecium are very quick organisms that are shaped like a shoe. The scientific name of the one you are studying is Paramecium caudatum. If you move your slide around you should be able to find one zooming across the viewing field. You may also focus the paramecium under low power, but may have trouble keeping up with the fast moving protozoans. Watch the little guy carefully, as it moves forward it also seems to do something else - watch the oral groove.