Transcript Bugscope Powerpoint

Bugscope Project
By: Ally Blonien
Bee Facts
Lifecycle of Honey Bees
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Queen is female, drones are males,
workers are sterile females
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Workers and queens develop from
fertilized eggs while drones develop
from the unfertilized eggs of the workers
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The workers could become queens if
they had her diet of royal jelly or brood
food
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The worker bee emerges from her egg
after 21 days and has a total lifespan of
6 weeks or 6 months if she is a winter
bee
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The queen emerges after 16 days of
being in her egg and lives up to 3 years
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The drones spend 24 days in the egg
and have a total lifespan of 4 months
because they are killed by the worker
bees in autumn
The British Beekeeper’s Association
http://www.britishbee.org.uk/articles/life_cy
cle_apis_mellifera.php
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Diet and Habitat of Bees
Bees undergo a complete
metamorphosis with egg, larva, pupa,
and adult stages
Some bees, like the honey bee and
bumble bee, live in social colonies like
hives
Solitary bees usually build nests or
burrows for their eggs
The bees provide their larvae with
nectar and pollen to eat as they grow in
the spring, since summer bees will die
in the winter, leaving only eggs behind
Winter bees, like honey bees, are able
to survive the winter by eating the
honey that they produced in the
summer
University of Kentucky Entomology
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile
/insects/wasps/bees/bees.htm
Before and After
 In the second picture, I added more hair to the legs and
body of the bee and I added lines inside of the wings to
show the segments of the wings. I added more hair after I
saw how hairy bees actually were under the hand lens and
from the Bugscope pictures and the hand lens helped me to
better see what the bee’s wings actually looked like.
Real Bee Pictures
 The picture on the left is a digital picture of a bee
 The picture on the right is a picture of a bee’s head from
Bugscope
Differences in Pictures
 The Bugscope picture is able to show a lot more detail on the
bee like the segments in the antennae, the facial features, and
the actual amount of hair on the bee’s face and part of the
body.
 The Bugscope picture also shows how the features of the bee
are organized on the bee’s face, like where the antennae come
out of the head and where the eyes are in relation to the
mouth.
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NSES Content Standard A:
As a result of activities in
grades 5-8 all students
should develop
Abilities necessary to do
scientific inquiry
Understanding about
scientific inquiry
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This relates to the Bugscope
activity in that the students will
learn how they can answer their
own questions by doing scientific
observations.
The students can create their own
questions about bugs and be able
to answer those questions through
observing the microscope images
and through conversing with the
entomologists who communicate
with them while maneuvering the
microscope.
The students will also see that the
more they learn through
observation, the more questions
they will have
Books Connected to Bugscope
These three books, Are you a Bee? by Judy Allen, A Spring without Bees by Michael Schacker and Bill
McKibben, and The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci, all give helpful facts about bees
and their lives. Each book is fit for a different age group with Are you a Bee? being more suited for
young students up to about 4th grade, The Life and Times of the Honeybee could be used from 3rd to
6th grade and A Spring without Bees would best be used with the upper grades in middle school to high
school.
These books could be used to discuss the the life cycles and impact of bees and other insects on the
world. Bugscope could then be connected to these books by showing the different features of the bees
that allow them to do what they do, like collect pollen and fly, and to dispel any misconceptions that
these books may have about bees. The books could also lead the students to create their own
questions about bees or other insects that could then be answered using Bugscope.
Authenticity of using
Bugscope
 Bugscope is an authentic use of technology
because the students are looking at real
images of insects and are talking to credible
sources on insects.
 Bugscope allows the students to get involved
in scientific inquiry in that they will be able to
answer some of their previous questions,
dispel any of their misconceptions, and come
up with more questions that will spark their
curiosity to learn more.
Applying Bugscope
 The Bugscope activity can be
applied to art classes in that
the students can participate
by drawing a picture of a bug
from memory and then
drawing a new picture of that
bug after seeing it under the
microscope.
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see the accuracy of their
memory and how their
picture can look more
realistic with the more details
that they add.
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Bugscope can be used in
science class during discussions
of insects and what their
purpose is in the world.
The students will be able to use
Bugscope to see the different
parts of the insects they are
studying and how those parts
help the insect to function.
For example, they will be able to
see how the hairs on a bee are
used to collect pollen or how the
mouth of a butterfly can sip
nectar.