Science Badge Work About Eels

                      Woodlice

Woodlice have a rigid segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. In New Zealand we call them slaters.

They eat dead plant material, and they are usually active at night.

They can be found under wood that is on the ground and under plants, weeds in cracks in the concrete.

I lifted a piece of wood up outside at home and found a heap of woodlice. They were all grouped together and then they all ran away to find somewhere to hide.

The next day I went outside and found some woodlice there were lots of them under a weed.

I think there were 30 woodlice it looked to be a whole family there as they were from tiny babies to adults.

The colours varied between white when they are little to dark grey when they are big.

From watching the woodlice I have found that they like to hide and when I disturbed them they all ran the found a new hiding place.  

By Courtney

WALT to appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.
WALT build on prior knowledge and to share and examine our knowledge; to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

                 Aphids

Photograph By Summer

The plants that are mostly infected are rose’s. The aphids are mostly found on the new growth.

The first one I looked at had none, second one had 6 of them and the third one had 21 of them.

That is why you need to spray your rose’s so they don’t go on the other plants.

Thank you for reading my science badges about aphids.

By Courtney

    Slugs and Snails in my garden

Slugs and snails like to live on your silverbeet in the garden. They live in your garden as they love to eat vegetables like cabbage, silverbeet and especially love anything with juicy green leaves.  Slugs and snails like to come out when it is dark because they don’t like dry hot places. Snail actually carry their homes with them on their back so if they get scared they will hide in their shells.

Mum and I went outside at night time with a torch to have a look in our garden and we found slugs and snails eating our silverbeet.  This made me remember that this is my science project for School so I took some picture of them and the holes they made in our vegetables.

Thank you for reading my science badge about slugs and snails and where they live.  Hope you enjoyed it.

By Courtney

Helpful Caterpillar Turning Into A Beautiful Butterfly

Helpful Caterpillar Turning Into A Beautiful Butterfly

It was a beautiful morning the egg was hatching into a black Caterpillar his name was Spike but he was sad because he saw the only boy Caterpillar in insect city. Spike would to see what it was like in insect city he said hello to a Rainbow Shield Bug she didn’t say hello.  He said hello to a wasp but he didn’t say hello. Spike went to the fountain spike looked at himself but someone was in the fountain refreshing it was a Ladybug she quickly flew  up to the leaf. The leaf was falling down but she could not fly because her wings were still wet. She yelled out help help me but Spike quickly made himself into a net the ladybug was falling down. Spike strend himself and the Ladybug fall into his legs everyone was cheering for Spike the Ladybug said thank you for saving. Spike saw how beautiful she was the mayor said thank you Spike for saving this Ladybug. Spike started to get ravenously hungry he ate ten leaves he got little bit fat.

The Rainbow Shield Bug yelled out help help someone help me please help me Spike saw the Rainbow Shield Bug was stuck in a spider web she was going to the spider’s meal Spike couldn’t let some beautiful be eaten. The spider was coming to eat the Rainbow Shield Bug, Spike got onto the web, he used his growing weight to make the web fall down, Spike used his legs to get the Rainbow Shield Bug out of the web, Spike saw how beautiful she was with her beautiful colours. The Rainbow Shield Bug said thank you Spike for saving me from that spider, your welcome said Spike. Spike got even hungrier he started to eat more and more leaves he got so big and so fat he could not even walk he found a nice spot, Spike was hanging from the tree he got into his cocoon. It was one day later Spike felt different he felt really strong and decided to break out of his cocoon. It was a lovely sunny day Spike flew down the tree, Spike flew over the river and looked down at himself he could not believe it he was a beautiful butterfly, Spike had beautiful wings the colours of his wing were green, blue and purple. He flew across insect city Spike saw the Rainbow Shield Bug and the Ladybug he laughed out hello Rainbow Shield Bug and Ladybug they said hello Spike I like your beautiful wing Spike said thanks. Spike was so happy that his dream came true for him to become a beautiful colourful butterfly. Everyone in insect city lived happily ever after.

By Courtney