Heights Elementary
Session 2013-058

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Connected on 2014-05-15 10:00:00 from Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

• 8:17 am
• Bugscope Teamsample is in 'scope
• 8:47 am
• Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
• 8:58 am

• 9:07 am

• Bugscope Teamnow we're working on the presets for today's sample

• 9:13 am

• 9:21 am

• 9:28 am

• 9:33 am

• 9:47 am
• Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll!
• 9:55 am

• 10:09 am

• 10:20 am
• Bugscope Teamall dressed up and nowhere to go; I'll leave this running. please call me at 217 244 7221 if you log in and I'm not here at the computer!
• 10:26 am
• Bugscope TeamMarc please let me know if you would like to drive. I've given you control of the 'scope.
• Bugscope Teamour teacher, who is a regular, going way back, must have forgotten about us this morning
• Bugscope Teamalso, Marc, please let me know if you have any questions

• Guestokay.
• Bugscope Teamnote that you can now control the microscope

• Bugscope Teamyou can see the super sharp mandibles
• Bugscope Teamthe palps are broken off; there were four, but the tips are all gone
• 10:31 am
• Bugscope Teamyou can see the compound eyes on the left and right
• Bugscope Teamyou can also click on any of the presets, on the lefthand screen, and the 'scope will drive to the place you've selected

• Bugscope Teamthis is the yellowjacket stinger, but we see that it is covered with hemolymph or some other kind of juju

• Bugscope Teamon the left side we see, barely, that it is barbed

• Bugscope Teambees often have forests of setae covering their compound eyes
• Bugscope Teamthe setae are likely mechanosensory; they likely also help with thermoregulation, holding warm air close to the bee's body
• Bugscope Teamto the right we see one of the antennae, in the foreground
• 10:36 am
• Bugscope Teamthe antennae are covered with chemosensors
• Bugscope Teambrb

• 10:42 am

• Bugscope Teamthese samples are a bit beat up, one some were dusty, so I rinsed them with ethanol before coating them with gold-palladium

• Bugscope Teamthe ethanol gives all of the setae a bedraggled appearance
• Bugscope Teamthis is one of the tarsi
• GuestSo are these samples that the school sent in or did they request certain samples from your department?
  Bugscope Teamthese were sent
• Bugscope Teamwhen school is in session, we do an average of two sessions per week, and during the winter it is hard to maintain a stock of good specimens
• Bugscope Teamthe entomologists are really helpful and give us extra insects/arthropods when they have them
• GuestIt appears that each session will run for about an hour, correct?
• Bugscope Teamthat is about right. sometimes we'll have three classrooms of kids, at 20 minutes each, over an hour's time
• 10:47 am
• Bugscope Teamwe can run longer, but of course this is not the only thing we do during a day, and we share the microscope with researchers
• Bugscope Teamwe use different/unique specimens for each session unless for some reason there's no time to change between sessions
• Bugscope Teamthis sample will be used in an hour for a connection with New Orleans
• GuestI'm an Instructional support trainer and am exploring ideas on how to connect this with CA standards at various grade levels.
  Bugscope Teamthe best way to do this with classrooms is to use a computer lab and let the students ask questions directly; usually two to a computer and less than 30 computers online
• Bugscope Teambecause we work with students of all grade levels, elsewhere in the world as well as in the U.S., and everyone has a slightly different setup, we are as flexible as possible
• 10:53 am
• Bugscope Teamsome people have computer labs, some have smartboards, some are in home schools, sometimes a group of home schools are on, sometimes there's a sick kid at home who logs in when her/his class is also online with us
• Bugscope Teamsometimes there's just a teacher and a projector

• GuestOkay. This is very exciting. I'm going to do a bit more thinking about integration of this tool into K-6 science, math, Arts, and language arts content standards.
• GuestThank you so much for your time.
• Bugscope TeamThank you, Marc.
• Bugscope TeamI'm going to shut down and log in again in a few...