Adaptation Centers

To get us excited about our cricket experiments tomorrow, Mixtli brought in this neat cricket maze he designed with his dad. How awesome! We are excited to see if and how the crickets are able to make it through the maze to find food. We'll let you know our results!


We also cycled through Adaptation Centers today for a whole hour and a half! Wow! We learned about insect mouth parts, eyes, communication and defenses, as well as watched an interactive video about general insect characteristics :) We learned that insects have crazy compound vision that is great at detecting motion and seeing things up close, but not useful for seeing detail or far away objects. We also learned that insects use sound, smell and touch to communicate with each other. We explored how and why insects have adapted to display different types of mouths and coloring. It was a long, but fun, day!

Watching our interactive video.

Exploring with compound eye lenses to see if insects can see well up close.

Reading our directions at the communication center to find out what activity to do next!