Cricket investigation

Kingdom : Animalia (the taxonomic kingdom comprising all animals.)

Phylum: Chordata (the phylum comprising the chordates.
Class: Aves (
Order:  Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins.)
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Gallus
 

Background research: Crickets eat fruits, seeds, small insects, some leaves, and they eat organic materials. They can't live without habitat, they usually live under rocks and logs. They need warm weather and soil to lay there eggs. Depending on the crickets, some crickets don't like light but other crickets do. Female crickets die after laying there eggs. Some male crickets like to have chirping competitions with other male crickets. Crickets need to have a good diet or else they would start feeding on each other, also they need a good supply of water. Female crickets are larger. They communicate by seeing, smelling, and touching.

Cricket investigation

Background Research:   My group and I closely observed crickets in containers. Their was an wet napkin and a dry napkin on each side of the container. We watched the crickets for about 10 minutes. We noticed that they like the wet side better.

Question: Do crickets like wet or dry places?
 
Hypothesis: Crickets like wet areas better than dry places

This Week in Science #6

          This week in science listing things i cant live without was the first thing I did. Then I listed the things a cricket cant live without. Then we started something with jelly beans. We had to make a dichotomous key determining the difference between the beans. For every yes or no we had to make up a question for it.
          This week in science i learned that crickets prefer the dark because that's when they start to chirp. I learned that crickets cant live without air, a nest, food, water, and a partner. This week in science i learned that crickets prefer wet places because we had followed a crickets movements for 2 minutes 3-4 times over a wet napkin and a dry napkin to see whether they like wet or dry places better.

This week in Science #5

          This week in science we experimented with Grass hoppers. I helped create shelters for them. I helped put 3 in each case, a slice of an apple, and a crumbled up piece of paper. I had witnessed a live tarantula for the first time in my life. It had purple on the top and it was very hairy.
          I learned that Grass hoppers die extremely easily. They grow slow and they make the chirping sound when they flap their wings. I learned that crickets dont bite humans. I also noticed that they rarely eat. Grass hoppers dont really do much but walk around and make annoying noises.  This is an example of an insect, that i really want, doing cool things

This Week in Science #4

          This week in science I did a second science investigation on a plant called Brassica Rapa.  I had one plant under sunlight, one under artificial light and one with no light.  I put 10 pipets full of water in the cups.  The hardest part was trying to measure the length of the plants because some of the plant was already under the dirt. I just want to know why is artificial light better than natural sunlight. The funny part was when we tried to measure one of the plants and half of it broke off.

          By the end of the investigation I learned that artificial light is better for the Brassica Rapa. I learned that the plant starts sprouting within 2 days. I learned that the more they grow the more purple it turns. I also learned that the Brassica Rapa needs more water than you may think.

This Week In Science #3

          This week in science, my team mates and I have started a plant investigation. We are using Brassica Rapa beans. We put about 8 to 10 pip-ets full of water in each cup. We put one cup in the sunlight, one under a light bulb and one with no light at all. So far they have all been growing around the same length. They are about .5 centimeters apart from each other.
          This week in science I learned how to write a testable question so that it would be easy to be answered. I learned how to write a proper procedure that anyone can understand. Even an English speaking alien. I learned about a plant called Brassica Rapa and how it can grow within two weeks. I found out that it satrs sprouting within 2 days.  I wasn't expecting this but I learned that they can turn purple. I am still unsure of how it turned that color.

This week in Science #2

         This week in science we played with some poppers. After we played with the poppers, we came up with some questions about them. Then we came up with dependent and independent variables about the poppers. After we did that, we wrote testable questions about the poppers.The next day we continued our plant investigations. We wrote some facts that we learned and wrote somethings that we were wondering about plants. Then we started to write testable questions for our plant investigation. After that we had to draw an experimental setup so that we could put our questions to the test.
         This week in science we learned that there is a plant that can grow within 2 weeks. The same plant that grows within 2 weeks starts sprouting within 2 days. The plant has different type s of vitamins that are healthy for us. I also learned how to write a testable question so that i can attempt to answer it.