Teacher Resources
Bugscope Project Proposal Guidelines
Representative Bugscope Proposals
Online Arthropod Activities for Different Grade Levels
Model Elementary School Proposal
Effect of Host Variation on Adult Female Melittobia digitata Wing Size
Curricula Developed
Advanced Arthropod Studies Curriculum (http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~dstone/advancedarthropodstudies.html)
Supplement to arthropod study and activities students typically encounter in high school level biology, ecology and environmental sciences classes. Each component may be used individually or may be integrated with others in whatever way is most meaningful to individual teaching situations. These activities lend equally well to cooperative or independent learning situations. All of these projects require use of the Internet-based resources as a the major resources in gaining further knowledge. Each project is tied to real-world knowledge, not memorization and abstractions. Many of the projects have a myriad of project extensions. Curricular activities are Microarthropod Collection and Examination, Microarthropod Variation and Taxonomy, Quantitative Study of Arthropod Ecology, Determination of Evolutionary Relationships Using Biology Workbench Education Enhancements, Scientific Proposal Writing Using the Bugscope Model and Introduction to Online Scientific Journals.
Coming Soon
Arthropod Subphylum and Order Information including Links to "Best of the Web" for Each Order
A Brief Overview of the Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda) Converted to HTML 7/27/99.
Noninsect Arthropods Converted to HTML 7/27/99.
Finally, we will assemble descriptions and links to each order. At this point (7/27) we still need to convert several orders to HTML and have the following in rough form:
Created 7/21/99. Last modified 7/27/99.