Our trap is now up and running, and we are ready to catch some bugs. We are excited to be apart of this experiment!
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A Windy, Cool Day !
Today, marks DAY 1 of our School Malaise Trap Program. Our team worked together to get the trap deployed. We observed the process and gathered data.
We look forward to getting in touch with other schools over these next few weeks. Our first contact has been @LuckyLake. We will be looking you up on the map. Do you have a twitter account (@susanmuir70 ) we can follow? Thank you, and we look forward to seeing pics and hearing about your temperature for the day.
Our Mathematician would like to collect the high temperatures for Saskatchewan and maybe even all of Canada.
It would be great if you COMMENTED to this post leaving your LOCATION and HIGH temp for today! Thank you!!! Our mathematician is looking forward to analyzing the data.
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
Setting Up the Malaise Trap
Setting up the Malaise Trap!
School Display
We have had some interest in our program and people have been checking out the bulletin board display.
Informing our school
We made a display for the foyer and made a presentation during an assembly. We also have a group in charge of informing our community and another group in charge of informing via the internet.
Where will the trap go?
In order to decide where our trap would be set up, we asked each class involved to submit three suitable locations. Then, we compiled the suggestions. Due to common ideas, we had a selection of 5 different locations. We then created ballots and had each grade involved vote for the best location.
Above is a map of our school property and the five locations are indicated by color-coded sticky notes.
We collected the ballots and created a bar graph. Each class had a different coloured ballot. The location decided upon was the the football field.
Cold Temperatures
When we arrived at school this morning, the temperature was 1 degree Celsius. Not very promising for collecting flying insects. We’ll see.
Introducing Teeterville Public school
We are Teeterville Public School. We have 204 students in our wonderful school. We’re the grade 5/6 class, and we’re very exited to get started on this project. We live north of Brantford, about half an hour from Brantford. We are a rural community but we have a very large geographical area, that is home to a lot of different species in long point conservation area, which is located beside our school yard. Outside of this study, we have found very unique species like, katydids, garter snakes, bald eagles and cicadas. We are sure to give a lot of data and thank for this chance!
Trap Set Up
We set up our trap today. Check out our pics. Our local newspaper photographer was there to document the event too. We had the grade 1 and the grade 6 classes come to watch also.