Avenge The Fallen
Greetings, Avengers! Great job on our mission today! Despite loosing a few of our comrades, that will not stop us. Why? Because we have sugar (creativity), spice (determination), everything nice (teamwork), and chemical X! (for legal reasons, that is a joke)
Here's what we did today:
| Time | Activity | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00am | Shared individual ideas on methods | 52 minutes |
| 10:52am | Lecture from Spider-man (Adrian) | 15 minutes |
| 11:08am | Creating an idea/method with a group | 32 minutes |
| 11:40am | Share group idea with class | 10 minutes |
| 11:50am | End of class announcements with Iron Man (Marshall) and Athena | 5 minutes |
Pictures from today:
Highlights from today:
We discussed possible methods we can try out for our experiments. Some of them include UV patterns on flowers, learning ability of Pipevine swallowtails, and color + scent association. We also talked about the logistical parts of the experiment such as how to care of the butterflies (temperature, humidity, food, keeping them in the green house) and how to collect nectar from flowers.
Spider-man (Adrian) swung by to give a presentation on animal behavior. After using Tony Stark's advanced technology, the presentation was on display and informed us of the wonders of wildlife. Moooove over animal planet! We learn about how our comrades interact with the environment in order to promote its fitness. These include, obtaining food, communicating, socialization, mating, self-defense, and avoiding predation. We also learn about Tinbergen's four question regarding behavior.
Preparation for next class:
1) Look at methods to effectively collect butterflies.
2) Send over a Google doc that goes over your method that your group present in class.
3) Thoroughly read each Google doc and come up with a list of pros and cons for each.
4) Come up with a list of materials we need to do any observations on the butterflies/prep for experiment (also make sure it stays within our budget.
5) Take note of what you done outside of this class and post it on the weekly reflection.
Tentative schedule for next class:
10:00am Meet at Briggs 122 to go to a brief run through of the goals for today.
10:10am: Visit the Green House
10:45am:Split up into groups: one goes off to collect butterflies while the other stays back and works on the methods
10:50am- Butterfly group gathers the supplies they need and venture off to the unknown
10:50am- Method groups goes over each of the methods that the groups presented on Friday
11:20am- Method group goes down to Marshall's stash of equipment to see what we can use for our experiment
11:50am-Testing out the equipment and figure out if there is anything we can set up for observations of butterflies.
12:10pm- We can do observations on the dead butterflies (look under a microscope, possibly do some dissections). Maybe even do some more research on how butterflies process visual stimulus.
1:30pm- Butterfly group comes back and we discuss what we did in our respective groups.
1:40pm- Any other announcements from Blogger Manu
Avengers assemble! I know we can do this :)
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