The grade 5/6 students at Wellington Hall Academy are excited to begin the Malaise Trap process! If only Mother Nature would cooperate and the snow would stop!
The students are curious to see if there are any new species of insects to be found on the grounds.
Our Malaise trap is finally here at Shoal Lake School!!! Soon we will be able to test out this amazing project. We are happy to be a part of this program. It arrived on April 6/2015 and we can’t wait to put it up on the 20th. Our class is currently brainstorming ideas to inform the community and our school about this research program.
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Hello Everyone!
We are looking forward to getting started! We still have a great deal of snow here, so we are still waiting for that perfect spot for our Malaise Trap! Hoping to post a picture in the next couple of days after we do some shoveling 🙂
Miscouche Consolidated 🙂
It is spring here in Burnaby B.C. The insects are arriving along with the tulips and cherry blossoms. Our grade 5/6 has just started a unit on Diversity of Life and are looking forward to catching and viewing insects. Today we picked a site for our trap. I originally had no idea it was going to be so large (I guess I didn’t do my research properly!). We are a little concerned that people will destroy it, as our school is in a urban setting surrounded by high-rises and a mall. We hope that it will be ok. We will educate all our students and ask that they let all our neighbours know that we are budding scientists and we need their help! We also just started blogging so we have lots to celebrate. Looking forward to it.
Hello All,
School Malaise Trap Program packages are ready and waiting to be shipped today via FedEx! Keep an eye out for your school’s package!
Hello All,
The School Malaise Trap Program swag has arrived and our team here at BIO is busy assembling each school’s program package (our office is full of boxes)! We hope to be sending out the program package to you by early next week!
It is snowing and raining here. Disappointing. We are going to make plans about how to inform our school and community about the program.
We at M.C.Knoll School are itching to get started to learn about biodiversity and the Malaise Trap Program. Here are a few things we will be doing this week…
1) Watch the classroom video found in the Course Materials section(biodiversity, DNA barcoding, Malaise trap)
2) Brainstorm and research- What insects do we already know that visit our playground? What do we know about these specimens? What can we find out?
3) Start creating questions for the Malaise Trap team to answer (then send in through email) example. Has there been a Malaise Trap set up near Yorkton, Saskatchewan in the past?
4) Following the School Malaise Trap program Twitter feeds
What are you doing? We would love to get ideas from you.
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Hello from Salisbury Middle School!
We are so please to be included is this amazing project! We look forward to our snow eventually melting, and being able to find the perfect location for our trap! Our students have been introduced to the project as well to the world of blogging. We are really looking forward to this experience.
Salisbury Middle School
In the fall, our school, Evergreen Elementary, Grade Five students, set up our first School Malaise trap. After 5 months, we are going to set up our second trap for the spring project. We have not decided on our spot yet, but we are VERY excited!
Lexi
