ENGAGE and EXPLORE - SEWER LICE INVESTIGATION

Sewer Lice!?!? - A biologists from USM recently discovered a new life form at the mouth of the Royal River. The zoologists at the university are still working on the DNA analysis to determine if it is a new species or a mutation of one of the aquatic insects found further upstream.  

FACT or FICTION?

Students today were immersed in an activity where they were trying to find the answer to two different focus questions:

• How could you identify and describe the oraganism in front of you?
• How can you describe the movement inside the container?

After they wondered about what was presented to them they got to explore with many different materials and tried to figure out what might cause an object to have a buoyant force.