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Invertebrates as Research Tools
As the syllabus leans towards independent research projects as part of assessment,
students are faced with the task of finding topics to investigate, designing
experiments and choosing suitable test subjects. Invertebrates make
excellent “guinea pigs” for science projects. They are hardy and fast
growing, readily available and do not attract the animal ethics concerns
that their spine wielding counterparts do. In this workshop students
will learn which invertebrates make good study subjects, how to collect and
culture them and undertake simple experiments. Stick insects, meal
worms, cockroaches, spiders and maggots are just some of the invertebrates
we will examine. Research topics such as Integrative Pest Management,
Bio-Control, and insect-plant co-evolution will be discussed.
