We are Iona Academy situated in the st. Raphael’s area of Eastern Ontario. Today we set up our Malaise Trap! We had a few minor setbacks because it was raining while we were setting up. The location we chose to set up was in an open field along the forest edge. It was also near a pond, so we could attract insects from the water, field and forest. It was a very chilly day as it was only 12 degrees Celsius, so not many insects were caught. We hope the weather clears up because we are very excited to be part of this project and hope to catch more insects!–grade 7 students
Category Archives: Elementary Schools
Don’t touch!
Some people just don’t have any respect for Science! Over the weekend some people tampered with our trap. They ripped pegs out of the ground and the back was leaning a bit. The caution tape was also ripped off, but the damage was minor and some of us went over and fixed it over the weekend.
Today we attached the collection vessel, so now we’re ready to go. We’re excited to watch over it for the next couple of weeks. We hope to catch lots of cool insects!
St. Peter’s grade 6 class
Unity, Sk
It’s a trap!
“It’s a trap!”…a Malaise trap. We just found the perfect spot to deploy our trap. We are still a little worried that people might tamper with it, but we know that there are lots of bugs there, since they were crawling all over our teacher this morning. We can’t wait to launch on Monday.
St. Peter’s grade 6 class
Unity, Sk
Iona Academy is Ready! We received our trap!
This is one of the location where we will post our trap. Iona Academy has a beautiful pond in our backyard. This is where we studied our ecosystems this fall. We cannot wait to start and set up our Trap! We are so happy it is here!!! The snow is almost gone here in Eastern Ontario. Our forest only has a few patches of snow!!! lol
The Snow is Melting!!!
We are excited to see the sunshine!! This means that the snow is melting and we will soon need to select an appropriate location for our Malaise trap!
So Much Snow!
Hello Everyone!
We are very excited to take part in the Malaise Trap Program. We have a great deal of snow here on Prince Edward Island with approximately 20-25 cm more coming on Sunday! We have an idea where our perfect location is but we are waiting for some of the snow to melt before we post a picture!
Talk to you soon,
Miscouche Consolidated
A Perfect Place for Our Malaise Trap
A Perfect Place for our Malaise Trap! M.C. Knoll Elementary School’s photo slideshow on PhotoPeach.
Iona Academy
Our Iona Academy grade 7 little scientists are ready for spring! We cannot wait to explore our backyard world of biodiversity. We can smell spring coming 🙂
M.C. Knoll is ready… if only the weather was.
It’s snowing and cold outside but that won’t stop the M.C. Knoll grade 5 students from doing a walk-about next week to hunt for the perfect place to set-up the Malaise trap. We look forward to blogging our experiences and discoveries!
@ Jack Chambers: What We Thought!
What some students thought…
I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed this program. It was really interesting how many and different types of bugs we found. Thanks for making science FUN! – Nabil
I thought that this was a really fun way to get students interested in science and it really made us consider how many species of insects we had in our schools backyard. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to see this! – Alexandra 🙂
The overall experience was very fun, and it was really exciting to go down to our trap everyday and see what we had caught. Thanks a lot! -Wyatt
I had a lot of fun being a part of your program. It taught me a lot about bugs and how there are a lot of different kinds of species. It was a great experience, thanks! -Rachel
It was very fun going outside everyday to check on the bugs that we caught. Thank you, I really enjoyed this program! -Jieun
I had a lot of fun with setting up the trap, and see all of the bugs we caught! Thank you, I really enjoyed this program! -Bre
It was a great experience participating in the program, I’ve never done anything like it. It was fun, interesting, and very exciting! Thanks! -Matthew
I had lots of fun catching bugs so they could get DNA Barcoded. Setting up the trap was fun too. I enjoyed the program! Can you solve a Rubik’s Cube? -Ryan
