We  spent some time outside of the classroom and students collected lots of plants and insects and mounted them on slides.


 Here are a few images/videos of insects that the students shared with me:


 Eye and legs of a spider:


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 <img alt="IMG_9995" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26555 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26555" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_9995" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9995.jpg" width="169"/>
 <img alt="IMG_9997" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26556 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26556" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_9997" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9997.jpg" width="169"/>


 Armenia is land of apricots. We ate lots of them everyday. One day we opened an apricot and saw very small worm looking organisms inside. Turned out they were these tiny flies (?) :


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 The antenna and  legs of a couple of ants:


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 <img alt="IMG_9978" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26563 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26563" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_9978" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9978.jpg" width="180"/>


 <img alt="IMG_9826" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26564 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26564" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_9826" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9826-1.jpg" width="225"/>
 <img alt="IMG_9882" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26559 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26559" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_9882" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9882.jpg" width="225"/>
 <img alt="IMG_9869" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26561 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26561" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_9869" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26551/IMG_9869.jpg" width="169"/>


 Hair from the thorax of this butterfly-like insect:


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 They managed to fit a really big ant alive under the coverslip:

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 Here’s some grass that looked like hare barley:


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 and a flower petal:


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