Bugscope

 

Bugscope is a second-generation educational outreach project that provides remote scientific instrumentation to K-12 classrooms.   Students participating in the project can remotely control an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) from their schools using the Internet and a Web browser.  The project is structured so that the instrument is provided as a resource while leaving the planning, execution and control of the experiment in the hands of the teachers and the students.  The classroom plans the project, mails in a specimen and on a scheduled date and time takes control of the microscope from the computers in their classroom.  They use control panels launched from a web browser to move the specimen stage, change magnifications and vary imaging parameters in order to interactively acquire and view images required to fulfill the scientific goals of their proposed experiment.

STATISTICS

Total Number of Sessions: 28
Total Number of Schools: 27
Total Number of Images Collected: 4,175
Total Number of States Involved: 17
All Participating States With Number of Sessions:

AR – 1, CA – 4 GA – 1, IA – 1, IL – 8, MD – 1, MO – 1, NC – 1, NE – 1, NJ – 1, NY – 1, RI – 1, SC – 2, TN – 1, TX – 1, VI – 1, WA – 1

SESSIONS

March 12, 1999 - Champaign,IL School: Champaign Central High School Proposal: 1999-003 Grade Level: 9th-12th Teacher: Susan Herricks Specimen: Water bugs Database Info: 145 images collected	March 19, 1999 - Taylorville, IL School: Taylorville High School Proposal: 1999-006 Grade Level: 10th-12th Teacher: Mary Dawson Specimen: Buffalo Treehopper (Ceresa bubalus) Database Info: 290 images collected
March 26, 1999 - Nashville, TN School: Richland Village School Proposal: 1999-001 Grade Level: 6th-10th Teacher:  Dean Nelson Specimen: Common Tick Database Info: 105 images collected	April 12, 1999 - Chicago, IL School: Crown Community Academy Proposal: 1999-015 Grade Level: 8th Teacher:  Nancy Valente Specimen: American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) Database Info: 332 images collected
April 16, 1999 - Harleyville, SC School: Jenkins Hill Elementary Proposal: 1999-018 Grade Level: K-6 Teacher:  Patricia A. Nicholas Specimen: Wolf spider Database Info: 132 images collected	April 23, 1999 - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA School: Dodson Middle School Proposal: 1999-007 Grade Level: 6-8 Teacher:  Girolann Accetta, JD Specimen: Harlequin Bug (Murgantia histrionica) Database Info: 188 images collected
April 30, 1999 - Wilmington, NC School: Williston Middle School of Math, Science and Technology Proposal: 1999-028 Grade Level: 6th Teacher:  Jennifer Mott Specimen: Dung Beetle (Pinotus carolinus) Database Info: 211 images collected	May 7, 1999 - Saddle Brook, NJ School: Saddle Brook Middle School Proposal: 1999-011 Grade Level: 7th-8th Teacher:  Karen Smith Specimen: Caddisfly larva, dipeteran fly, ant Database Info: 206 images collected
May 17, 1999 - Urbana , IL School: Yankee Ridge Proposal: 1999-033 Grade Level: 2nd Teacher:  Pam Socie Specimen: Cricket Database Info: 40 images collected	May 21, 1999 - St. Thomas, Virgin Island School: Antilles School Proposal: 1999-009 Grade Level: 5th Teacher:  Mary Tyler Specimen: Chitons, Mealybugs, a beetle, two ants, a moth Database Info: 161 images collected
May 28, 1999 - Gaithersburg, MD School: Thurgood Marshall ES Proposal: 1999-020 Grade Level: 5th Teacher:  Roberta Miller Specimen: A small black beetle, a pillbug, a moth Database Info: 126 images collected	September 14, 1999 - Lincoln, AR School: Lincoln High School Proposal: 1999-042 Grade Level: 10th Teacher:  Elleen Hutcheson Specimen: Water beetles, a small cockroach, a small spider Database Info: 243 images collected
September 29, 1999 - Chicago, IL School: McAuliffe Elementary School Proposal: 1999-070 Grade Level: 3rd-6th Teacher:  Bob Bishop Specimen: Ants, beetle, spider, fly, mystery bug Database Info: 117 images collected	October 5, 1999 - Chesterfield, MO School: River Bend Elementary Proposal: 1999-053 Grade Level: 4th Teacher:  Laurie O'Leary Specimen: Two fleas, two ants, a housefly Database Info: 166 images collected
October 12, 1999 - Sergeant Bluff, IA School:Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School Proposal: 1999-047 Grade Level: 6th Teacher:  Judith Foy Specimen: A Whirligig beetle, an ant, a beetle, a rotting waterbug, a wasp Database Info: 89 images collected	October 19, 1999 - Urbana, IL School: Urbana Middle School Proposal: 1999-004 Grade Level: 6th-8th Teacher:  Pamela Van Walleghen Specimen: Mosquito, Spider, Ant, Roach Database Info: 143 images collected
October 20, 1999 - Urbana, IL School: Urbana Middle School Proposal: 1999-073 Grade Level: 6th-8th Teacher:  Pamela Van Walleghen Specimen: Mosquito, Spider, Ant, Roach Database Info: 252 images collected	October 26, 1999 - Croton-on-Hudson, NY School: Croton-Harmon High School Proposal: 1999-036 Grade Level: 10th-12th Teacher:  Donna Light-Donovan Specimen: Aphids and Wooly Adelgids Database Info: 312 images collected
November 2, 1999 - Atlanta, GA School: Fernbank Science Center Proposal: 1999-071 Grade Level: 5th-12th Teacher:  Terri Brown Specimen: Earwigs, Spider, Fly, Tiny Weevil Database Info: 60 images collected	November 10, 1999 - East Palo Alto, CA School: East Palo Alto Charter School Proposal: 1999-068 Grade Level: 2nd Teacher:  Sonia Browning Specimen: Three spiders Database Info: 152 images collected
November 16, 1999 - Troy, IL School: Triad High School Proposal: 1999-072 Grade Level: 9th, 11th-12th Teacher:  Sandra Perkins Specimen: Beetle, moth, two praying mantis, half lacewing, a tick Database Info: 164 images collected	November 30, 1999 - Woodland, CA School:  Woodland SCOPE Homeschooling Co-op Proposal: 1999-064 Grade Level: K-8th Teacher:  Jene' Lock-Murphy Specimen: Fruit flies, White fly, Daddy-long-legs (Drosophila melanogaster, Diptera sp., Palangiidae sp.) Database Info: 133 images collected
November 30, 1999 - Aiken, SC School: Aiken Middle School Proposal: 1999-066 Grade Level: 7th Teacher:  Terry Hallman Database Info: 9 images collected	December 7, 1999 - Hope Valley, RI School: Hope Valley Elementary Proposal: 1999-069 Grade Level: K-5th Teacher:  Jane Carlson-Pickering Specimen: Deer tick (Ixodes ricinus) Database Info: 52 images collected
December 7, 1999 - Sumner, WA School: Sumner High School Proposal: 1999-075 Grade Level: 10th-12th Teacher:  Bruce Kelly Specimen: Earwig, housefly, maggot, beetle, ladybug, black beetle (Misc) Database Info: 300 images collected	December 14, 1999 - Houston, TX School: Mayde Creek Junior High Proposal: 1999-061 Grade Level: 6th-8th Teacher:  Suzanne Ledet Database Info: 0 images collected
December 14, 1999 - McCook, NE School: West Ward, McCook Public Proposal: 1999-060 Grade Level: 4th Teacher:  Karrie Rowan Specimen: Box elder bug, a fly, spider, fruitfly, an ant, a small flying bug Database Info: 45 images collected	December 14, 1999 - Santa Barbara, CA School: El Camino School Proposal: 1999-082 Teacher:  Brian Naughton Database Info: 2 images collected

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