Session 2010-058 with Care program

Application

The School

School Name	Care program
School Homepage	www.onehopeunited.com
Location	Gurnee IL, US
Community	Suburban
Type	Private

The Class

Subjects Taught	all
Grades Taught	9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Number of Students	15

The Project

Project Title	explorers
Insects To Study	any
Project Description	we would like to find any bugs that we can find within our ground (it is also a residential DCFS facility), and there is a small lake, lots of trees forest area, etc. Lots of good bugs! From there we would like an overview of each bug and and would like the kids to initiate a question and answer session with the virtual team, as they observe and take in any information which yo have given regarding the insects at hand.

Miscellaneous

Where did you hear about Bugscope?

Surfing the internet

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2010-07-20 10:00:00 from Gurnee, IL, US

9:41am
Bugscope Team We are making the presets for today's session.

9:46am

9:52am

9:57am

10:02am
Bugscope Team hi teck
Bugscope Team Hi Teck!
Guest What is this?
Bugscope Team this is showing some scales from a yellow butterfly wing, and the little round bals are brochosomes
Guest Hello - anybody home??
Bugscope Team Hello!
Bugscope Team We are home.
Bugscope Team This is the wing of a yellow butterfly.
Bugscope Team one of the scales, at high mag
Bugscope Team yeah -- like Cate said
Guest Hello, Beckman. What are you doing?

Bugscope Team we are driving the microscope right now
Bugscope Team would you like to drive, Teck?

Bugscope Team we are waiting for today's school to connect, and if you would like to drive until then you may
10:08am

Bugscope Team this is a small ant -- you can see its serrated jaws
Guest What is it eating?
Bugscope Team it's not eating right now -- ants often look like they have something in their mouths
Bugscope Team they have maxillary and mandibular palps that are very long -- accessory mouthparts
Bugscope Team you can see one of the compound eyes, which in ants usually have few ommatidia

Guest What is it eating?
10:13am
Bugscope Team it is not eating -- it just looks like it

10:18am

10:28am
Bugscope Team let's shut down -- nothing going
Bugscope Team save the sample...