Week 2. Insect Orders and Developing Hypotheses

Overview

For this part of lab, we’ll learn how to tell apart different Orders and practice with preserved specimens.

Each team will be assigned 1-2 Orders and is responsible for identifying what characteristics are used to distinguish those Orders from others.
You can use the two field guides available in lab to help with this task.
Each team presents the key features of their Orders to the whole lab. (Take notes on what other teams tell you!)
Practice using the key in the Peterson’s field guide to identify the specimens on the cards from last week to their Order.

Now that we have key features for each order, examine some already identified preserved specimens. Can you find the key features on these specimens?
Next, practice with some unknown specimens. Can you identify what Order they belong to? Write up a Claim, with Evidence, and Reasoning (CER format).

Head Science Librarian Eboni Johnson will lead us through an introduction to using library resources to find sources.

She also created this handy webpage for our class: https://libguides.oberlin.edu/BIOL211

For next week, you will find and annotate 5 more papers. Together, your group must find 20 total new papers.
- Use the 3-2-1 format from last time (see instructions below)
- Collaborate so your group shares a single document to include all 20 sources.
- Submit 1 file for the group.

Use a 3-2-1 format for your annotation:
- Three takeaways from the article that summarize its content.
- Two ways you think this particular article could apply to our research project.
- One thing you feel you still don’t understand after reading the article.
Use complete sentences in paragraph format.
Use Council for Science Editors (CSE) formatting for the actual citation
- Pay close attention to the style of text (italics, bold, underline, quoted), punctuation separating information, and the order in which info is presented (ex: is the date after the author names or after the date?).
- General format is: Author(s). Date. Article title. Journal title. Volume(issue):location.
- Citation generator: https://www.bibguru.com/c/cse-citation-generator/
- Citation quick-guide: https://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Tools/SSF-Citation-Quick-Guide.html
- Link to RefWorks for creating bibliographies: https://refworks.proquest.com/

Intro to Arboreteum ecosystems and geography
Intro to available traps, use of traps
Jigsaw discussion on papers read for today
In assigned teams, discussion of experimental design and generation of question/hypothesis/predictions
Turn in initial draft of question/hypothesis/predictions