Home Sweet Bug Microenvironments: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight
In this week's spotlight: a zoology family science experiment and science fair project that encourages families and students to observe pillbugs or sowbugs up close by creating cozy but different microenvironments and seeing which the bugs prefer. Although they are frequently found in the soil, pillbugs and sowbugs are not insects; instead, these bugs are crustaceans and breathe with gills.Will this have an affect on which microenvironment they choose? Put it to the test in this easy indoor science experiment that encourages observation skills as students watch to see how the bugs respond to the different microenvironments they create and perform their own bug counts at regular intervals.
- What Is Home Sweet Home to a Bug? (full Science Buddies Project Idea)
- Springtime Science: What's Home Sweet Home to a Bug? (science activity at Scientific American)
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