A quick-guide to our citizen science project
by We are very lucky this Fall to have the involvement of after-school programs from the New York City public schools. Teacher professional developmental day on …
Tag: outreach
BioB & Next Generation Science Standards
We want more science teachers to read this blog! This site is written with a wide and general readership in mind. But our teaching resources are …
Arthropods / Ecology / Entomology / Evolution
The story of the red-shouldered soapberry bug
In addition to this blog, our website has what will eventually become a series of pages describing the natural history of several species of true …
Ecology / Entomology / Plants / Teaching
Bug Guides
When I tell people about Bugs in our Backyard, they often ask how to identify the common host plants, like the golden rain tree. Thankfully, it is …
Schools get involved
In the last week of October, we had our first submissions of field survey data from citizen-scientists. Julia Dooley, a teacher in Newark, Delaware, is …