Using Pillbugs and Barriers to Explore the Scientific Method in the First Introductory Laboratory Period

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2012, Volume 33

Marianne Niedzlek-Feaver & Betty L. Black

Abstract

To examine the scientific method in their first laboratory session, students design their own experiments to assess the innate behaviors used by pill bugs to navigate around barriers. Students will have access to barriers of various shapes, sizes and cons

Keywords:  student-designed laboratory, predatory fungi, pill bug locomotion

New Mexico State University (2011)