Description
Book SynopsisThe worksheets and activities in
Insects, Science and Society: Laboratory Manual are designed to help bring students into a hands-on laboratory-style setting while maintaining a structure for entry level study. By understanding the characteristics associated with arthropods and the "Super Seven" largest insect orders as well as techniques for exploration, identification, and collection of arthropods students can make connections to the diversity of life that encompasses us every day in nearly every setting. To know something about entomology is to know something about the world around us.
Table of Contents
- Worksheets
- Introduction to Arthropods and Insects
- Dragonflies and Damselflies
- True Bugs: Hoppers, Cicadas, Aphids, Whiteflies, and Scales
- Beetles
- Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids
- True Flies
- Bees, Wasps, and Ants
- Moths and Butterflies
- Activities
- External Morphology
- Scientific Method
- Isopod Rodeo
- Isopod Rodeo Lab Report: Hints, Tips, and Tricks
- Isopod Rodeo Lab Report
- Insect Collecting Techniques
- Insect Collection Project
- Insect Identification: Use the Simplified Dichotomous Key
- Insect Identification: Simplified Dichotomous Key
- Making a Dichotomous Key
- Grasshopper Internal Dissection
- Generalized Insect Alimentary Canal, Indicating the Three Primary Regions
- Population Dynamics
- Biological Control with Predators
- Food Web
