We've been having some issues with the survival rate of our Monarch Caterpillars over the past few weeks and we're not sure what's happening.
What would a scientist do to investigate this issue? What hypotheses would they come up with? How would they find out? What thinking would they be doing when they are 'THINKING LIKE SCIENTISTS'?
Add your ideas below and link your Prior Knowledge to Make Connections and Ask Questions. You will also need to Analyse and Summarise your findings / research. You may also need to Infer Meaning to come up with your hypotheses about what is happening.
Who could you ask about this issue? What resource people do you know? Who could you contact?
First a scientist finds out what type of food it needs to eat (not just leaves? maybe?),what are the conditions for there needs warm/cold? they might even run tests to find out what can harm them and not just predators. We should ask about this issue to an expert like a biologist.
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Great ideas Tom. Where would we start looking for an expert we could contact do you think?
DeleteTry this site it has helped me http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/butterfly/msg101552537421.html
ReplyDeleteIt might be the O.E virus
P.S they eat pumpkins mine grew so big the chrysalis were HUGE!
This is a brilliant site Jade - thanks for the link. Remember, you're an author on the class blog so you could go in and add this link to the sidebar. Have I shown you how to do this yet. (I can't remember!) Let me know if you need to know how to do it.
Deletego to this website http://www.ehow.com/info_8088319_caterpillars.html it helped me like jade said
ReplyDeleteAnother great website! Thanks Deighkotah. Jade, you need to add this one too please. :-)
DeleteWell if we are thinking like scientists we will probably be thinking of the caterpillars habitat and where they are mostly from and their weather. Then we will be looking at, how they live and react to different food/plants. Also we will obviously investigate why the caterpillars die or turn in to a different colour when we touch the caterpillars/butterfly while they are in a cocoon.
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Excellent use of technical vocabulary here Timothy, along with thoughtful ideas about how a scientist would 'attack' this problem.
DeleteScientists would do a test to see what they eat and how they tern into an a chrysalis and what harms them and how they to dry there wings when they are wet after they come out of the chrysalis.
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You've obviously put a great deal of thought into this Logan. Excellent! I wonder what sorts of tests they would do to see what they eat. They'd have to think about tests that wouldn't harm the caterpillars - I wonder how they would make sure they weren't hurt or harmed? What are your thoughts?
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