Fieldtrip to the ZOO!!!

For lab last week we had the opportunity to visit the KSU insect zoo. Which, I had never been to but had heard about, so i was somewhat excited to see what they all had. We were able to take a guided tour of the zoo by the Zoo's manager Kiffnie Holt. I have some pictures that i took on the tour below. They have some neat exhibits and it gave me some ideas of what to incorporate into my poster project that we have coming up.

1.) After visiting the insect zoo i could tell that the Wheat Stem Maggot bug byte that i had done earlier was not going to be of much interest in the Zoo. So i decided to do my poster on a different insect. After visiting the zoo i considered both the cricket and grasshopper as possible choices. I chose to do the grasshopper because everyone knows what they are and hopefully i can provide a little more info that they may have not known.

2.) Probably the hardest part about the grasshopper, is that everyone does know it, so they may just look at the pictures and walk by without actually reading the poster. But I'm hoping that younger kids can recognize the pictures and then stop to read. I don't know if it will get their attention right off, but i was surprised to find out that grasshoppers can jump 20 times their body length. So I'm about 5'10" and that would mean for me to do that i would need to jump 39 yards.

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5.) Kiffnie stated that there really shouldn't be a whole lot of text on the posters for the younger kids. And that they are more interested in pictures and funny words. But they also get some groups who are slightly older like around 4Th grade, so it is kind of a balancing act. Basically i just wanted to provide a quick and informative overview to whoever stopped to look, no matter what their age.

Since i have already completed my rough draft, i think i did alright but may have a few to many words for the really young kids. I'm excited to see what everyone else has done and how my ideas compared to there's.