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Let Nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth
Walking on Water:
Water Strider Physics
An Interactive Display Designed for The University of Kentucky's Dept. of Biology
This family-friendly activity taught elementary students about surface tension and the insects that are adapted to survival on the water surface.
Earth Day:
Aquatic Insects as water health indicators
In Collaboration with
Amanda Hetzel, Science Teacher
Julius Marks Elementary School
In April 2016-2018, I helped ~100 3rd and 5th grade students use dip-nets and D-nets to capture aquatic insects from a stream. To complement their in-class lessons on organisms as environmental indicators, we identified our captured insects and discussed the health of their local stream.
Ecology evolution metapopulation behavior
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