One way we've been keeping busy this summer is by doing a few summer lessons. One unit of lessons was on Arthropods (and, yes, I had to do some research to recall/relearn exactly what that meant). We had a great time--here are a few highlights from our studies:
Our first study was about ants. We did an experiment, "Ants at a picnic," to see what food ants would enjoy eating the most. The kids chose four different foods and put them on a plate (they pretty much ended up selecting the same things). We figured out that either ants really prefer honey (as we only had one ant actually come to the plate and that was what it was eating), or it was too hot for the ants to be bothered with our picnic.
See our little ant friend?
Imp's sassy shoes and an ant that we found on our nature walk--it was about the only insect we saw.
But that doesn't mean our walk was a total bust, because we did get to see this fellow at our neighbor's house. Obviously this parrot is not an arthropod, but he added to the adventure of our nature walk for sure.
Our neighbors suggested that I should get inside the huge cage to get a proper picture, um, err, thanks.
Imp's sassy shoes and an ant that we found on our nature walk--it was about the only insect we saw.
But that doesn't mean our walk was a total bust, because we did get to see this fellow at our neighbor's house. Obviously this parrot is not an arthropod, but he added to the adventure of our nature walk for sure.
Our neighbors suggested that I should get inside the huge cage to get a proper picture, um, err, thanks.
