{"id":23025,"date":"2015-10-12T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23025"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T04:11:10","slug":"avery-and-the-giant-african-millipede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23025","title":{"rendered":"Avery and the Giant African Millipede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first grade science unit is currently focused on the life cycle of mealworms. Here&#8217;s how things were described in a recent school newsletter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working in pairs, first graders have created a habitat for their mealworms and are watching the insects transform from pupa to larva to\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfinally\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddarkling beetles&#8230; Our young scientists have conducted experiments, determining which color the mealworms like best and whether they like moist areas or dry areas. Last Friday, the first graders were treated to a special guest from the Insect Discovery Lab. Karen, a bug expert, showed our students 6 different kinds of bugs: an Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, a Giant African Millipede [<em>note from M: that&#8217;s what Avery is holding below &#8211; eek!<\/em>], an Australian Walking Stick, a Whip Scorpion, a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, and a Darkling Beetle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The most wonderful part of this 1-hour presentation was the respectful and informative way in which these intricate creatures were presented to the students,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says first grade teacher Barbara Eisenhauer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The students were mesmerized!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-holding-mealworm-in-class.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23027\" title=\"Avery holding mealworm in class\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-holding-mealworm-in-class.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-holding-mealworm-in-class.png 301w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-holding-mealworm-in-class-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-in-class.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23028\" title=\"Avery in class\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-in-class.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-in-class.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Avery-in-class-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first grade science unit is currently focused on the life cycle of mealworms. Here&#8217;s how things were described in a recent school newsletter: Working in pairs, first graders have created a habitat for their mealworms and are watching the insects transform from pupa to larva to\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfinally\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddarkling beetles&#8230; Our young scientists have conducted experiments, determining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90-two-kids-oct-dec15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23025"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23047,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions\/23047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}