I teach at Moore Square Middle School in downtown Raleigh.  I love working at a magnet school.  Each student has three elective classes a day (in addition to four core classes).  Every teacher teaches some kind of elective class.  The one that I am offering now is called field biology.  We will spend the majority of the time in the elective class on contributing to Deanna’s ant research.  She has even offered to come in and conduct a classroom trial to collect hemolymph from ants.  She would bring in the equipment that we would need to use and she would conduct the lesson.

With field biology, the ant experiments will tie in perfectly!  We have already been looking at food webs and food chains.  We have also already done some research into bats.  I had our magnet coordinator order some supplies for us but we are waiting for them to come in.  When we have our supplies, we will be ready to begin our ant lessons!  I can’t wait!  I hope that they get as excited as I was when I was working in the lab!

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