...Ashley B. C. Goode; Dale Halbritter Biological experiments involving animals in K–12 classrooms can be time consuming or logistically difficult. Insects are small and easy to obtain, making them suitable for classroom use. We provide an experiment using insects that will teach students how to use...

...Jennifer A. Zettler; Scott C. Mateer; Melanie Link-Pérez; Jennifer Brofft Bailey; Geneva DeMars; Traci Ness Insects have extraordinary species richness: over a million species have been identified, and even more await discovery and classification. Given their abundance and diversity, insects...

... rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2016 Quantitative reasoning ecology evolution insects Here, we...

... be done with other vertebrate animals, but it is difficult to ethically find maximum g-force tolerance. Lukatch et al. (1997) found rats to tolerate 12 G, which suggests that smaller organisms may be less affected by G-force. Their relatively small size allows insects to be less affected by gravity...

...Rebecca Sammet; Daniel Dreesmann Acorn ants (genus Temnothorax ) are a powerful model organism for illustrating the variety of interactions in an ecosystem. We developed five teaching units with acorn ants as the exemplary insect. The aim of this study was to provide a quantitative and qualitative...

... arthropods to species. Arthropods insects arachnids bacteria symbionts culturable microbes The maintenance of biological diversity provides a wide variety of ecosystem services, the measurable value of which, globally, far exceeds the world’s gross domestic product ( Costanza et al., 1997...

...Tara L. Bal “Forest health” is an important concept often not covered in tree, forest, insect, or fungal ecology and biology. With minimal, inexpensive equipment, students can investigate and conduct their own forest health survey to assess the percentage of trees with natural or artificial wounds...

... teachers, we need to ensure that students leave our classrooms with the abilities necessary to critique scientific information in whatever format it enters their lives ( MacKenzie, 2007 ). Students will review basic information about insects, including how they fit into the animal kingdom...

... by National Association of Biology Teachers. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions Web site at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2012 Macroinvertebrates aquatic insects inquiry...