Inside Nature's Giants - Giant Squid

Watch the video about Giant Squid and learn how their unique biology allows them to exist and survive in the open ocean.

Kings of Camoflage

How do cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish, squid) change color?

Cuttlefish Mating Trick

Octopus Hiding

Indonesian Mimic Octopus

Flatworm Reproduction

How to Treat a Jellyfish Sting

Jellyfish Invasion

hydra catches water flea

This is the same animal we are looking at in the lab.

Lampart's Classes:

How can we keep them alive? 

What will we need to figure out to set up an aquarium they can live in?

After completing the lab... Set up a simple experiment to help determine their tolerance range for...temperature, turbidity, salinity, or some other factor

Submit a hypothesis and procedure to answer one of these questions and get extra credit if you can carry out the experiment and reach a conclusion about your hypothesis.

Box Jellyfish - Irukandji

Box Jellyfish - Chironex Fleckeri

Format For Bug Labels

Each of your insects need to have their own label, typed!! All labels should be 9 point font and preferably a normal font like Times New Roman or Helvetica. You should format your labels using the example below:

Common Name 

Order 

Date Caught 

Location

And it looks nice when you center the text as well.  As for a specific example, I have a European Honeybee in my collection and the label would look like this:

European Honeybee

Order Hymenoptera

9/2/13

MHS Land Lab

If you have any questions, feel free to ask us.  Let's get these beautiful collections finished up!!

Sponge Reproduction

Sponge Feeding

Wolf Proposal - Cole's Classes

Objective
 Propose a potential solution to the issue of wolf populations being so successful out West.

Procedure

• Do some online research about the topic. Read others opinions on it. Read the article Wolf Wars from National Geographic that is posted on our blog page. It will be a valuable resource for scientific data. 
• Form an opinion on what you think should be done about wolves! Exterminate them? Hunt them? No management? You need to develop a solution that will appease all parties here: conservationists, cattle ranchers, government officials, and the general public. 
• Finally, create your proposal. It can be an essay, a poster, a pamphlet, etc. There is no length requirement and I don’t care what form your proposal takes as long as the quality is there. 

Grading

• This proposal will be out of 20 points. An “project would include the following:
• Background on the gray wolf and the justification for the 1995 reintroduction. It should be clear you understand how the YNP ecosystem changed with/without wolves. 
• A proposed solution to the issue outlined in detail. It should be FEASIBLE! How will your idea be implemented? Who will pay for it? How will your idea satisfy all concerned parties? All of these questions should be addressed. 
• More than anything, your proposal should be backed up by evidence as much as possible!!!! Do some research!! 

Due
October 8th, 2013

Rewilding

Answer the following questions for extra credit. Turn in before you take the Ecology Test.
What is rewilding?
Why does the speaker want to rewild the earth?
What would you do if it were up to you?  Why?