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Thanks Kathy.  There are several cute videos of termites following papermate pen scribbles on You Tube.  Acquiring termites might be the hardest part of the protocol.  After a look, I'd say that BSCS takes something "simple" and fun to excruciatingly dull and dreary, but it's worth a look.
C

On May 25, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Ismael Calderon wrote:

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> We've done this activity numerous times at events and as part of school curriculum workshops at the Newark and it has always been successful.  We present it as an activity to engage the students in the science process whereby students discover that insects communicate by pheromones.  
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> On May 25, 2012, at 9:12 PM, "Kathleen Vandiver" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi  Here is some information, may be  this what you heard about...
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>> The BSCS Biology Textbook  (Biology, A Human Approach) has a lab exercise where students figure out that termites will follow the trail of particular type/brand ink from a pen. Teachers are given an address where they can obtain the termites for this lab.   
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>> That's my recall.  I heard about this two years ago from another science teacher-- haven't worked with this myself.  
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>> I imagine that the pen company was surprised to learn about the unintended side effects of their product.  
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>> Kathy 
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>> Kathleen M. Vandiver, Ph.D. 
>> Director, Community Outreach and Education Core
>> Center for Environmental Health Sciences 
>> MIT  (Bldg 56  Room 211)
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>> Inducted into the Massachusetts Science Educators Hall of Fame, 
>> Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers (MAST) November, 2011

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