Labs4Home Fruit Fly Colony Lab
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Description
A fruit fly colony #athome? Yes, easy, fun, and flies won't invade your home. Drosophila are easy to capture, maintain, and use for experiments from genetics and developmental biology to biochemistry and animal behavior.
Labs4Home has you covered as we roll out new hands-on wet-labs that can be done #athome with common household materials.
Labs4Home introductory fruit fly lesson teaches you how to start a fruit fly colony #athome using ingredients you have on the shelf already. Once you have a colony established, you have excellent experimental subjects for inquiry-based labs.
Here you get the basic techniques for fruit fly husbandry. Plus a full fly growth lab activity is included. Students choose experimental variables and test their hypotheses with statistical analysis.
What you get in this Labs4Home Lesson Packages (70 pages/slides):
Student Version of Fruit Fly Colony Lab with Background, Procedure, Data Records, Work Sheets (12 pages)
Excel spreadsheet for Statistics (1 page)
Annotated PowerPoint Slides Giving Step-by-Step Methods (11 pages)
Teachers' Guide for Fruit Fly Colony Lab with Deeper Background, Detailed Methods and Hints (24 pages)
Annotated PowerPoint Slides of Background Information for Lecture (20 pages)
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Labs4Home wet labs require a sink. We offer wet-lab activities that can be done #athome. Advanced biology lessons are presented through rigorous laboratory activities tied to NGS/CCS Standards and performed entirely with common household materials, readily available inexpensively. Lessons will fall into thematic series that crosswalk, form full lab course sequences, and tie to free open-access textbooks, with each lab having inquiry enhancements and pathways to open-ended primary research #athome. Labs4Home are suitable for distance learning, formal classroom and informal settings, remote delivery, homeschools, and for small, rural and frontier districts seeking accessible inexpensive lab alternatives.
Tired of virtual labs? Get your hands dirty with Labs4Home!
