Overview & Lesson Sequence

Focus on Standards & Assessment

Materials Needed, Preparation & Planning, Management Strategies

Background Info

Intro Activity
Why Study Populations?

Meet the Aphids

Research Project
Aphid Population Growth

Data Analysis I

Data Analysis II

Optional Activity
The Power of Exponential Growth

References

Glossary

Suppliers

Resource Sheets

Great Gravidity Home

CISEO Home

Suppliers

Arbico
P.O. Box 4247 CRB
Tucson, AZ 85738-1247
800/827-2847
www.arbico.com
(lady beetles, lacewings, parasitoids and other biological control supplies)

Beneficial Insectary
14751 Oak Run Road
Oak Run, CA 96069
800/477-3715
www.insectary.com/
(green lacewings)

Berkshire Biological
264 Main Street
Westhampton, MA 01027
800/462-1382
www.berkshirebio.com
(pea aphids)

BioQuip Products
17803 LaSalle Avenue
Gardena, CA 90248
310/324-0620
www.bioquip.com
(general entomological equipment and books)

Carolina Biological Supply Co.
2700 York Road
P.O. Box 6010
Burlington, NC 27216-6010
800/334-5551
www.carolina.com
(general science equipment and live insects)

Delta Education
P.O. Box 3000
Nashua, NH 03061
800/442-5444
www.delta-ed.com
(Trilens)

Insect Lore
132 S. Beach Avenue
P.O. Box 1535
Shafter, CA 93263
800/548-3284
www.insectlore.com
(pink-spotted lady beetles)

Rincon Vitova Insectaries
P.O. Box 1555
Ventura, CA 93002
800/248-2847
www.rinconvitova.com
(green lacewings, ladybugs, aphid parasitoids, big-eyed bugs)

Sigma Chemical Company
P.O. Box 14508
St. Louis, MO 63178
800/521-8956
www.sigma-aldrich.com
(bromophenol blue and other lab chemicals)

VWR Scientific
P.O. Box 7900
San Francisco, CA 94120
800/932-5000
www.vwrsp.com
(general lab supplies)

Wards Natural Science
5100 West Henrietta Road
P.O. Box 92912
Rochester, NY 14692
800/962-2660
www.wardsci.com
(general lab supplies)