Scott Robuck at Austin ISD Technology has offered to assist teachers install the cameras. Janice sent out press releases today to Austin area newspapers and television stations. Preparations for Austin Science Fun Day are underway. Kids knew to look under rocks for critters rather than in open water and, as a result, found a multitude of critters. I learned about how animals ate and what kind of weather they live in.
Kids continue to work on the booth for Austin Science Fun Day.
They made models of the pond critters out of aluminum foil and paper mache. Austin Science Fun Day at the Texas Memorial Museum of Science and History. The Zavala Young Scientist students won a Dean's Award for their booth showcasing the AAAS project. They used a videoflex and television to display live aquatic critters from the ANSC ponds. They had a computer with the Bug ID part of the web page and they had visitors using identification keys to determine what larva forms their models represented.