By: Kimmee Karnowski EDUC 140 BUGSCOPE By: Kimmee Karnowski EDUC 140

A LADYBUG… The life of a ladybug consist of a short period of time. Typically, ladybugs live up to four or six weeks. When they are hatched from their egg, they spend their time eating aphids in gardens for about three weeks, which is a majority of their lives. According to National Geographic, ladybugs may eat up to 5,000 aphid plants in their short lifespan. Ladybugs generally live in gardens and eat off the plants, particularly the aphids, which help the growth of crops. Many are also found flying around and on window ledges. An interesting fact about ladybugs is that new adults do not have any black spots. Actually, the number of spots indicates which type of beetle the lady bug is and how old it is. Spots on the shell of the beetle decrease as age increases. They do not, however, indicate the difference between a male or a female ladybug, but males are normally smaller than the female beetles. Ladybug Themantic Unit – http://www.geocites.com/sseagraves/schoolyardscience.htm National Geographic – http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/ladybug.html

LADYBUGS My Ladybug Real Image of a Ladybug www.kidzcraftz.ca/pics/Ladybug6.jpg

BUGSCOPE IMAGE These images were taken from the Bugscope website. (http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/apply) Image of a ladybugs head (left); Image of ladybugs eye (right):

Comparisons of images My ladybug and real image Bugscope Images I focused more on the color and simplicity of a ladybug. The real image shows a picture of a ladybug sitting on a leaf. It looks real because you can see the face details and texture, whereas my drawing is clearly done in crayon and focused on the color and dots than details. Bugscope allows students to zoom in to specific body parts. The bugscope images presented were zoomed in images of the head and eye of a ladybug. This image differs substantially from my picture of a ladybug because it goes into extreme detail. In the bugscope images, I saw the tiny little hairs on the ladybug and the skin. The eye n my drawing is a black dot, but on bugscope it is made up of many small balls.

National Science Education Standards CONTENT STANDARD E: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop Abilities of technological design Understandings about science and technology This content standard applies to the Bugscope project because it describes both science and technology. The standard states that “Science and technology are reciprocal. Science helps drive technology, as it addresses questions that demand more sophisticated instruments and provides principles for better instrumentation and technique. Technology is essential to science, because it provides instruments and techniques that enable observations of objects and phenomena that are otherwise unobservable due to factors such as quantity, distance, location, size, and speed. Technology also provides tools for investigations, inquiry, and analysis.” Bugscope applies to the particular standard because it allows students to investigate and make observations about phenomena that is generally hard to examine. The topic being studied, insects and body parts, helps derive technology to be used, hence the internet and the bugscope website.

Bugscope Technology Microscopes: ESEM: Microscope show authenticity because you are able to see things that the naked eye cannot see. The microscope allows the students to investigate the insects thoroughly and observe very intricate details they would probably have no chance of witnessing prior to their investigations. ESEM: The Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope is a device that works because of electrons bouncing off of each other, which projects extremely detailed images. This ESEM is legit because it shows images that would never be capable without the advanced technology.

Curricular Areas Math English A classroom can use Bugscope during a math lesson to address scaling. The students could practice using the scale on the different bug images. The students could use the scale to zoom in or out of the images to get different perspectives of the bugs. English The students could use Bugscope to perform a creative writing exercise. The students could investigate a bug online and then write a story about their particular bug. They could even add pictures from the website to make a storybook.

Literature Sources Textbook: Internet: Magazines: Students can learn about insects from their textbook. They can take the information they learned from their textbook to see how it is related to Bugscope. Internet: The internet can be connected to Bugscope for prior investigations. The students could research their bug and then compare and contrast what they found to the Bugscope website. They can compare both factual information and images. Magazines: Magazines can be connected to Bugscope for related images. The magazines can be used to find cartoon or actual images of a bug and then can be compared and contrasted to the images on the Bugscope website. The students can even find ads that include bugs for different perspectives.