Care program
Session 2010-058

Application

School

Name	Care program
Web site	http://www.onehopeunited.com
Location	Gurnee, IL, US
Community	Suburban
Type	Private

Class

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

Project

Title	explorers
Insects	any
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

Transcript

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

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

9:46 am

9:52 am

9:57 am

10:02 am
Bugscope Teamhi teck
Bugscope TeamHi Teck!
GuestWhat is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is showing some scales from a yellow butterfly wing, and the little round bals are brochosomes
GuestHello - anybody home??
Bugscope TeamHello!
Bugscope TeamWe are home.
Bugscope TeamThis is the wing of a yellow butterfly.
Bugscope Teamone of the scales, at high mag
Bugscope Teamyeah -- like Cate said
GuestHello, Beckman. What are you doing?

Bugscope Teamwe are driving the microscope right now
Bugscope Teamwould you like to drive, Teck?

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

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

GuestWhat is it eating?
10:13 am
Bugscope Teamit is not eating -- it just looks like it

10:18 am

10:28 am
Bugscope Teamlet's shut down -- nothing going
Bugscope Teamsave the sample...