Scientists in School

On Friday, the children participated in the "Backyard Bugs" workshop offered by Scientists in School.  Here are the children explaining what they have learned about bugs.

What is that insect called?

Luke: A dragonfly

What did you learn about this insect?

Preston:  The body parts of an insect: head, thorax, abdomen, six legs, wings, antennas, compound eyes, mouth parts. (You can ask your child to sing a song about the body parts of an insect to the tune "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes".)

What did you learn with Scientist Sonia (Mrs. Gaulton)?

Ava: The life cycle of the butterfly.

Antonio: The egg, the caterpillar, the cocoon (pupa), the butterfly.

Giuliana: When a butterfly comes out it's a chrysalis.

Miss. Natalie: A moth comes out of a cocoon but a butterfly comes out of a chrysalis.

Brandon, what are you doing in this picture?

Brandon: The life cycle of the ladybug.

What did you learn with Scientist Olivia (Mrs. Natoli)?

Noah: We took play dough balls and added sticks, eyes and wings.

What insect did you make?

Noah: a dragonfly.

Colin: we looked through microscopes to see the different body parts from pictures of insects.

Rose: The bee is drinking nectar.

Mme Maklin:  I learned that bees have sticky legs so when they drink nectar the pollen (yellow part of the flower) sticks to its legs. The bees then carry the pollen to other flowers allowing the pollination of flowers.

What did you learn with Scientist Greg (Mr. Sweet)?

Kaitlyn: We looked at insects to see if they had more or less than 6 legs. If they had more or less they were not an insect.

Faith-Lynn: I had to colour the paper and colour the spy glass. I needed to stamp the paper.

What did you learn with Scientist Petra (Scientists in School presenter)?

Giuliana: We pretended to be a praying mantis eating insects.

Is the praying mantis a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?

Giuliana: A carnivore

Jane: We had to put the sponge into the water and on the cookie.

What insect were you pretending to be?

Ava: A house fly. A house fly spits on the food and slurps it up through their straw.

Roberto: We pretended to be mosquitoes drinking blood.

Mme Maklin: Mosquitoes need the protein that is in human blood.

Juliet: We were pretending to be butterflies.

Mrs. Cole:  Butterflies have a proboscis (coiled straw).

Ivy: We were drinking nectar.

What did you learn with Mrs. Cole and Mme Maklin?

Clara: We camouflaged insects.