Connected on 2014-05-09 10:20:00
from Bexar, Texas, United States
- 9:20 am
- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
- 9:29 am
- TeacherGood morning Scot. My students are so excited to 'solve the crime' today!
- Bugscope Teamhey! we are just about to start making presets
- Bugscope Teamjust now reached vacuum
- TeacherPerfect! Some Elementary GT teachers from our district are doing some planning this morning and may be joining our session to observe. They will be studying Biomes next year and I suggested the use of Bugscope to them.
- Bugscope TeamCate put one of her socks in here, looks like.
- 9:34 am
- TeacherNice. As always...the most important thing is that the 'evidence' match the suspect I identified for you and the guilty one. :)
- Bugscope Teammaybe Cate did it
- TeacherYup! I'm saying Cate!
- 9:39 am
- 9:45 am
- 9:50 am
- Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll
- Bugscope TeamCate went upstairs and will be logging in in a sec.
- 9:59 am
- TeacherExcellent! We are introducing part 2 of the crime scenario and will be getting them onto computers in about 10 min.
- Bugscope Teamsuper cool
- 10:07 am
- Bugscope Teamhi!
- Bugscope TeamHi Group1TJ!
- Bugscope TeamHello JPTiger!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to Bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamplease let us know when you have any questions we might be able to help with
- Bugscope TeamSJ + Scott, in my office instead of at the microscope
- Bugscope Teamhaha SJ = Scott
- 10:19 am
- StudentIs that lice in the hair?
Bugscope Teamyou could ask your teacher to bring the mag up to see
- StudentOk nevermind
- StudentHello
Bugscope TeamHello!
- Bugscope Teamhahaha they do look a little like lice eggs
- Bugscope Teamthis is a low magnification image of the crime scene sample
- StudentWhat are they? The "lice eggs".
Bugscope Teamthey are pollen grains
Bugscope Teamsitting on a piece of what looks like a shoe lace
- Studenthello
Bugscope TeamHello!
- StudentHello
Bugscope TeamHello!
- StudentHow are the pollen grains made?
- StudentHow do you change the picture?
Bugscope Teamyour teacher has control of the microscope and can do that for you
- StudentYeah, how do you change the picture?
- StudentWhat is the nest thing in the left side, in the middle?
Bugscope Teamthat looks to be a bit of plant material
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- StudentThank you.
- StudentWhat are those round things
- Studentwhat are those round things
Bugscope Teamthe small round things?
- TeacherI will change the image every 4 minutes. First=Crime scene evidence
- Bugscope Teamthe ones that looks like footballs with a crease are flower pollen. they look similar to lily pollen we have seen before
- StudentYes
- Bugscope Teamthe little round ones are from some other plant
- 10:24 am
- Studentthe big round things
Bugscope Teamthe big elliptical things are pollen from one kind of flower
- StudentWhat are the noodle things?
Bugscope Teamthose are the cotton fibers from the showlace
- StudentThis type of shoelace can be found it what type of shoe?
Bugscope Teamnot sure -- maybe it would be good to compare them. sometimes we don't know those things
- StudentSo, we could have pollen in our shoelaces?
Bugscope Teamlooks like that is a pretty good bet
- TeacherGood question IP. Think about where pollen can be found and why someone would have it on their shoes.
- StudentIs it more pollen?
- Bugscope Teamso right now we can see that we have pollen that is elliptical and a little more than 100 microns long; do you know what microns are?
- StudentOn the top right corner, what is that thing?
Bugscope Teamthat is some plant material.
- Bugscope Teampollen can be in different sizes, and certainly it looks different across plant species
- StudentSo are the strings inside our shoelaces?
Bugscope Teamif you look at shoelaces up close you see that they're made of lots of threads, woven together
- Studentis this a normal representation of a common shoelace
Bugscope Teamin our experience it is
- StudentWhat is the texture for on the oval thingy;s
Bugscope Teamwe can see that they have a net-like pattern of raised areas on them
- StudentIs that some type of plant?
- 10:29 am
- Studentare those organisms or just fabric
- StudentIs this the shoelace or a plant?
Bugscope Teamwe are still on the shoelace. the cotton fibers from the shoelace look gigantic now! There are also little pollen grains of different shape here
- StudentIs this a plant or a shoe lace?
Bugscope Teamif the shoelace is made of cotton, which we are not sure about, it is both part of a plant and a shoelace
- StudentIs there dirt on the shoe lace?
Bugscope Teamthere is indeed something on the shoelace
- Studentwhy does the strands appear to be shedding?
Bugscope Teamthat could be from dirt sitting on it
- StudentWhat is the sphere?
Bugscope Teamwe think the sphere is likely a pollen grain; we can see that it is not as large as the elliptical ones, which were over 100 microns long
- StudentWhat is a micron?
- StudentWhat are the things clinging onto the shoe lace?
Bugscope Teamit seems to be debris, and some of it seems to be pollen
- StudentMaybe the tulips came from the flowers that were smashed in the female homeowner..
- StudentThe tulip pollen*
- TeacherScot or Cate, can you speculate what type of pollen this is?
Bugscope Teami think this got on the sample from the pollen scott gave me. Pollen is so light that it can travel easily.
Bugscope TeamI think Scott said they came from tulips
Bugscope Teamwhat would help is if we were to keep track of the diameters/lengths of the pollen grains so we have another way to compare them
- StudentWhat is a micron?
Bugscope Teammicron is micrometer. there are a million micrometers to a meter
Bugscope Teamso a micron, or micrometer, is also a thousandth of a millimeter (which is a thousandth of a meter)
- 10:35 am
- StudentWhat is a micron?
Bugscope Teama micron is 1000 nanometers, and it is also a thousandth of a millimeter
- StudentWhat is the dust kind of stuff on the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamit could be just that- dust or dirt. it's easy for dirt to get on shoelaces since they tend to drag in the dirt
- Studentthat looks simpler
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- TeacherSuspect B sample
- Bugscope Teamto us this -- the longer, football-shaped grains -- looks like lily pollen
- StudentAre the pollen grains opening..?
Bugscope Teamthey all have creases like that on one side
- Studentno is collected from the other people
- StudentSo did every suspect lose a piece of their shoelace?
Bugscope Teamhaha. Maybe the detectives got permission to cut a piece of each person's shoelace.
- TeacherSo, this is pollen that would come from a specific type of flower.
- StudentWhy do so many pollen grains get on the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamsomeone seems to have been walking on flowers, like maybe in a flowerbed?
- StudentWhy does the pollen \have a pattern on it, with circular shapes?
Bugscope Teamit might be that it helps make them sticky. Pollen grains have to find some way to pollinate other flowers. Ragweed, which isn't on here today, have spikes on them that makes them perfect for clinging to animals or clothes
- StudentCan there be any living things in this?
Bugscope Teamthe pollen is living, and there could be bacteria, which by the way are often about 2 microns long
- Bugscope Teamwhoa this is cool
- 10:40 am
- StudentWhat is that?
Bugscope Teamsometimes we find things that look like starfish, like those, on insects
- Studentwhy do some people have more pollen than others on there shoe laces
- StudentThey look like sea plants. Is that still the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamyes it was a closeup of the things that look like sea plants on a shoelace
- Bugscope Teamhere we see some of those round pollen grains, and they are pretty small compared to the elliptical ones that look like lily pollen
- StudentHow could the shoelace have this much bacteria and pollen on it?
Bugscope Teamshoelaces are huge compared to the pollen and bacteria. I think it could be very easy for that stuff to get on, especially over time
- StudentThank you!
- StudentThank You!
- StudentThank you for your time! (:
- StudentThank you
- StudentThank you!
- Studentthank You!
- StudentThank you for answering all of our questions!
- StudentThank you, that was really cool!
- Studentthanks bugscope people we're out
- StudentThank you :-)
- Studentadios
- StudentThank-You! It was very interesting! ;)
- StudentThank you have a nice day!
- Bugscope Teamthank you! i hope you discovered who the criminal was
- StudentGoodbye!
- Studentthank you have a good rest of the day bug scope team thanks for letting us observe
- StudentIs this particularly common to find in shoe laces?
Bugscope Teamas Cate said earlier, pollen is often sticky, so someone who walks around in the woods or in grass or in someone's flower bed would be likely to have pollen stick to her/his shoelaces
- Bugscope TeamThank you, Everyone!
- Bugscope Teamuhoh
- 10:46 am
- Bugscope TeamMrs Awesome let us know if we can help.
- Bugscope Teambrb
- StudentWhere did the pollen come from?
Bugscope Teami imagine this piece of shoelace we are looking at fell off from the criminal. The pollen can easily brush onto the shoelace as the person walks through a garden or park or other similar place
- Studentthank you
- 10:51 am
- Bugscope Teamhere we see what looks like two types of pollen plus the fibers the shoelace is made of
- StudentWhat magnification of close up sample C
Bugscope Teami think it is a little less than this magnification, which is around 1000x. So maybe 500-800x?
- Bugscope Team1004x
- StudentDoes pollen have the ability to break apart?
Bugscope Teamusually not
- StudentIs this the comb
Bugscope Teamthis is part of a shoelace
- StudentWhat is the circle thing on it?
Bugscope Teamthat is a small pollen grain
- StudentHow did the pollen get on the shoe lace?
Bugscope Teamwe can only guess
- StudentThank you
- Studentdo you know what type of shoe this came from
Bugscope Teamno, all we have is the shoelaces, which were white
- StudentThank You Scot
Bugscope TeamThank you!
- Studentis this still the shoe?
Bugscope Teamthis is from a shoelace, from the "A" sample
- 10:56 am
- TeacherSuspect B sample
- Studentare these oval shapws seeds?
Bugscope Teamthey are pollen grains
- Studentwhat type of fiber does the shoelace seem to contain? it might help with my investigation
Bugscope Teamthe shoelaces are made of lots of threads, woven together
- Studentis that more pollen?
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- StudentIs the smaller circle another piece of pollen?
- StudentWhat are the little chunks of stuff on there?
Bugscope Teamum -- here we see long fibers that are pretty clearly the shoelace threads, and elliptical pollen grains, and a smaller different type of pollen grain that is spherical
- Studentis this the shoelace or hair?
Bugscope Teamthe long fibers are the shoelace
- StudentWhat type of pollen is this?
- Student pollen means flowers right?
Bugscope Teamyes it comes from the anthers of flowers and is what bees and other insects disperse
- StudentWhat type of pollen is this?
Bugscope Teamto us the larger oval pollen grains resemble lily pollen we have seen before
- StudentDid the pollen come from a tree or a flower?
Bugscope Teamwe thing the oval ones came from lilies, so flowers
- StudentMay I ask the type of pollen?
Bugscope Teamthis type of pollen we often see on lilies
- StudentDoes it come from a tree or a small bush?
Bugscope Teamwe think the larger oval pollen grains came from lilies, because we've looked at a lot of lilies
- StudentHow would the type of pollen affect the situation?
Bugscope Teamit seems like it could be one of the clues
- Studentif the this suspect got lily flowers then cant suspect
- Studentis that the shoelace again?
Bugscope Teamthis is on suspect C shoelace
- Studentthe fibers of it correct?
Bugscope Teamright
- Studentmuch abliged
Bugscope Teamsuper coolk
- 11:01 am
- Bugscope Teamoops I just killed my chat window
- StudentIs that thing a piece of pollen?
- Studentdo lilies have vines and do vines collect pollen?
- StudentDo shoelaces specified for only sport shoes have different fibers than those for everyday life?
- Studentthe fibers seem to show a lot of pollen and grass in the location of the crime scene. Am I correct?
Bugscope TeamThere are grass fibers and some other pollen on it, yes
- Bugscope Teamthis is cool
- StudentThe fibers look more spherical than flat now. Why is that?
- TeacherSuspect C
- TeacherScot, can you adjust the focus here for me?
- StudentAre those spider looking things pollen?
Bugscope TeamI believe the spider things are from the grass
- Studentsense this suspect has very little pollen that means she didn't run through grass, can this mean that suspect C not be guilty
- Bugscope Teamthat is better
- StudentThank you for you help. I appreciate it.
- StudentThank you for your time and help.
- StudentThanks
- Studentthank you!
- StudentThank you
- StudentThank you
- Studentthank you for helping us
- Studentthank you
- StudentThank you!
- StudentThank you for your help!
- StudentThank you!
- Studentthank You Scot And Cate!
- StudentWhat is the dark gray area?
Bugscope Teamthose are cotton fibers
- StudentThanks for the help ScotJ and CATE!
- StudentThank You for the information!!
- StudentThank You for your help and time Scot and Cate
- Studentdo lilies have thorns possibly like a rose?
Bugscope Teami dont think so
- StudentThank you for helping I had a lot of fun.
- 11:06 am
- StudentThank you for your time and help Scot and Cate! I am very grateful
- StudentWhat are the things on the bottom right corner
Bugscope Teamdirt or dust. most likely dirt
- Bugscope TeamThank you everyone!
- StudentWhat is sample B close up?
Bugscope Teamit is a magnified look at the piece of shoelace from suspect B
- StudentWhat is this sample of?
Bugscope Teamthis is fibers (the long things) from a shoelace, and also small pollen grains, about 10 or 15 microns in diameter
- StudentWhat would sample A up close be ?
Bugscope Teama higher magnification of suspect A's piece of shoelace
- StudentWhat is Crime Scene Evidence Low Mag a sample of?
- TeacherSuspect A
- 11:11 am
- Bugscope Teamhere we see small spherical pollen grains (now just one) on shoelace fibers
- StudentWhat are the little balls?
Bugscope Teamthey are pollen grains. pollen comes in different shapes and sizes depending on what kind of plant it comes from
- StudentWhat are the smaller flakes on the strads
- StudentWhat is suspect A?
Bugscope TeamSuspect A is one of the three suspects: A, B, Or C
- StudentAre these separate shoelaces?
Bugscope Teamwhat we see right here are cotton strands from the shoelace. We have 4 separate shoelace. One from each suspect and one found at the crime scene
- StudentI mean't which picture is it
Bugscope TeamWe are on suspect A
Bugscope Teamat the top left of the image we see which one it is
- Bugscope Teamso as Cate says, this is from suspect A's shoelace
- StudentThere seems to be some kind of flakes on the laces, do you know what thoes might be?
Bugscope Teamthere could be bits of dust or dirt on them
- Studentis that a shoelace too?
Bugscope Teamthis is a shoelace, too
- StudentWhat are these pod shaped figures
- 11:17 am
- StudentWhat does microns stand for?
Bugscope Teammicrons are the same as micrometers. micro means "one millionth." a micrometer is one millionth of a meter
- StudentWhat are the sponge looking items?
Bugscope Teamthose are flower pollen grains
Bugscope Teamthose are pollen grains that resemble, in our experience, those from lilies
- StudentWhat are the football shaped items on these strands?
Bugscope Teamthose are pollen grains
- StudentWhat are we now looking ?
Bugscope Teamthis is a 1000x image of a shoelace with what look like pollen grains in it
- StudentIs the spherical item in the center also pollen?
Bugscope Teamyes it is! but almost certainly from another kind of flower
- StudentWhat are the conch shaped thingys
Bugscope Teampollen grains
- StudentIs this a branch?
- Bugscope Teamthis is interesting
- Bugscope Teamit seems to solve a puzzle for Cate and me
- Studentwhat is the big center strand?
Bugscope Teamthat seems to be from some grass
- Studentwhat are the noodle shaped figures in the back round?
Bugscope Teamthose are cotton fibers on the shoelace
- StudentWhat is this?
Bugscope Teamnow we see pollen, very small, and to the right the things we think look like flying spaghetti monsters
- StudentAre the little balls pollen as well?
Bugscope Teamyes they are
- 11:22 am
- StudentIdentify the substance located in the top-right hand corner.
Bugscope Teamwe think it is a structure analogous to an anther but in grass
- StudentWhere is the shoelace in the picture?
Bugscope Teamwe are zoomed in on the shoelace so much that we can see the individual fibers of it
- StudentWhat are the small strands? Is that just part of the shoelace? Also I believe there are circular pollen?
Bugscope Teamyes and yes
- StudentWhat is the spaghetti monster thingys in the background
Bugscope Teamwe think, now that we have seen them 'in situ,' that they are a sort of grass pollen
- StudentDoes this originate from suspect B?
Bugscope Teamthis, now, is from the crime scene
- Studentis that the lily pollen?
Bugscope Teamyes the larger oval ones
- StudentMore microscopic pollen grains!
- Studentthanks!
- StudentThamks for your time!
- StudentThank You!
- Student:)
- StudentThank you for your help!
- StudentThank you Scot! I appreciate your time. :)
- Bugscope TeamThank you, Everyone!
- StudentMuch appreciated!
- StudentThank You this was really cool!
- StudentIndeed, thank you for your valuable time. :)
- StudentThank you for all your time and answering my questions!
- StudentBye.
- StudentThank you Ms Scot
- Bugscope TeamDon't forget Cate! She made the samples!
- StudentThank you for all of your help Scot and Cate! :D
- Bugscope Teambye!
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- StudentThank you for your time!
- StudentThank you Cate.
- 11:27 am
- Bugscope TeamMrs Awesome collected the samples and mailed them to us.
- StudentI like pie and spaghetti monsters!
Bugscope Teamhaha
- Bugscope TeamMrs Awesome are we done for the day? Do you need anything else?
