{"id":1475,"date":"2020-01-17T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:46:41","slug":"copy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor insect investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ms Bernice Buttigieg,&nbsp;Year&nbsp;4.1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">As part of our Science programme,\nstudents learn about habitats, in this case, of insects on our outdoor school\ncampus. The term \u2018habitat\u2019 refers to the place where a living organism lives.\nWe had a discussion in class before going outside on the turf area so that boys\nwould know what they need to find out and what to look out for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As part of the investigation, we\nused some tools including hand-held magnifying lenses so that students could\nobserve the insects in more detail and also identify them better within their\nhabitat. We also used hoops so that students could investigate different\nparticular areas, such as near bushes, on the pathway, on the turf, etc. and\nalso observe how \u2018crowded\u2019 that area was with insects, and with what type of\ninsects. The boys were split into groups and each group wrote their findings on\na notebook. Various team roles were assigned, such as recording findings,\nmoving the hoop and observing with the magnifying glass. Rotation of roles was\nalso encouraged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apart from engaging in a fruitful\nscientific activity, the students enjoyed their hands-on task outdoors. Their\nlevel of participation increased and their team work was evident as well as\ntheir excitement! It was also a great opportunity to breathe in fresh air and\nto break the classroom routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the end, all the students\ngathered in a circle to share their findings and they were very keen to do so.\nThey found out that the bee was the most common insect, while they also\nobserved others such as flies, ants and lady birds. These findings were\neventually recorded on a bar graph during STEAM, thus extending this activity to\nthe acquisition of another skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ms Bernice Buttigieg,&nbsp;Year&nbsp;4.1 As part of our Science programme, students learn about habitats, in this case, of insects on our outdoor school campus. The term \u2018habitat\u2019 refers to the place where a living organism lives. We had a discussion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1475\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}