Bugscope 2000
On October 10, 2000 the students in Mrs. Rathbone's 3rd grade classroom at Charlestown Elementary School participated in the Bugscope Project as part of their M.I. Smart! Program studies. Bugscope is a new educational outreach project of the World Wide Laboratory.
The primary goal of the Bugscope project is to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable access to a scanning electron microscope can be made available to K-12 classrooms. Once again, we will have the opportunity to control an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to view insects at high magnification. Students and their teachers will control the microscope using web browsers from their classroom computer. The microscope is located at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This year we studied the mosquito, for it is one of the most harmful insects to humans for several reasons. Here in the RI, we are faced this this menace every summer. Mosquitoes are of great concern to entomologists in New England because they may carry a variety of viruses. One that has been of particular concern to people in this area is the West Nile Fever.
Here is a view of a mosquito as seen through an electron microscope. Here are some of the pictures we took with
the electron Microscope.Pretty weird, huh?
Punk Mosquito Face Mosquito Scales We also created a Mind-Map about Mosquitoes
View our Mind Map
Here's where to go if you'd liketo learn more about mosquitoes:
Track the West Nile Virus in the United States
