Collecting and Dissecting

 Collecting and Dissecting 

Today is the day we collected and dissected the test subjects!! In the beginning of class, we discussed what we were going to do because it is finally time to start! Marshall gave us a background about soapberry bugs. Then we split into four groups: collecting, literature, dissect, brainstorming quantitative observations. 

Schedule for this class:

Time

activity

9:00

Meet at Briggs Hall classroom

9:10

Some stay to learn to dissect, and some go to field sites collecting

9: 30

Arrive field site and start collecting/working with dissecting

10: 30

Report updates on Slack

10:40

Continue working

11:40

Break + all meet in classroom

12:10

Discussion +  set agenda for next meeting

12:50end of class

Collecting:

One group went to the ecosystem, and the other group went to Segundo, Wellman, and the Barn to collect as many bugs as possible. At the ecosystem, there were only Box Elder bugs and at the other locations had Soapberry Bugs. 


Dissecting group:

Everyone worked hard and did a great job on dissecting! It was challenging since the bugs were floating in liquid and were very small to work with. Some parts of the soapberry bug were easy to separate and identify but some parts were tough. 



 Literature group:

The literature group managed to find many useful and interesting sources. They found information on the type of antibiotic that we can use and went more in depth in previous research done on soapberry bugs. 

Homework:

- R4 homework

- Keep up with the readings!

- A link with helpful information on Soapberry bugs. 

- Be prepared to come to class with questions, methods and ideas to discuss and finalize our research! Try to come up with ideas based on what we have available to us and the type of data we can collect.

Schedule for next class:

Time

activity

9:00

Meet at Briggs Hall classroom

9:10

Get into groups to discuss your ideas and questions

9: 30

Come together as a group and choose which questions are worth discussing and going more in depth.

10:00

Dissectors start dissecting! Everyone else start working on final decision.

12:10Discussion and set agenda for next meeting

12:50

End of class


Note: Schedule for next class is very open ended because it all depends on what we come up with, and what we start doing based on our decision as a collective!


By Bianca Sun :)


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