Beetle Break!!

EXTRA! EXTRA!!
Beetle attempts a break for it when student knocks over beetle container!

Today while transitioning from one experience to another inside of room 207, a student accidentally knocked over one of the containers with a little beetle inside. OFF to the races went little buddy beetle!

Even more interesting, was the mad dash of the class to go and rescue little buddy beetle. While a few students shrieked in fear, the vast majority assumed the savior role and ensured his safe return to the container.

If you've been keeping up with some of these blog posts, you know that during science, the teacher and students of room 207 at John B. Kelly Elementary consider themselves junior/amateur entomologists. They become the scientist of the discipline they study throughout the year.

The entomology experience has been in a word.....an experience. Videos, live bugs, dead bugs, bug hunts in the school yard garden, research reports, art, in-class impromptu calls to entomologists at Purdue University and so much more to come including video chats with entomologists, a trip to the Insectarium in Philadelphia and wherever the winds of entomology carry them!