Bug Camp

Chicago's Field Museum, the National Science Foundation, and Ryerson Woods Conservation Area have come together to sponsor summer BugCamp. This camp offers approximately ten motivated 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students a unique learning experience using insects as a teaching tool. Over six weeks, students learn about ecology and evolution from scientists and guest lecturers at the Field Museum. Lectures and laboratories are accompanied by a day in the woods collecting insects.



	Throughout BugCamp, students work on making their own insect collection. Photos courtesy of Jane Zimmerman.

BugCamp runs Monday through Thursday, 9am to 4pm, from June 26 through August 3 2001. The course fee of $125 covers collecting equipment (nets, aspirator, hand lens, pinning block) and two insect field guides. If you are interested in attending BugCamp, please fill out the application below. Applications will be accepted no later than May 1, 2001. Please do not include the course fee with your application - payment will be collected on the first day of class. If you would like more information about this program, please contact Bill Ballard at: (312) 665-7739, or by
e-mail at: ballard@fieldmuseum.org.

Click here for a printable version of the BugCamp application.