"I've got the Geometry Bug!"

 These sites will help you find answers to the research questions for this project. If you find other sites that are really good ones, email mailto:npowell@bhs-ms.org

1. Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes--Yes, just what it sounds like! Teach your students the importance of insects in the human food chain in some parts of the world, and get them to try it if you can!!
2. 3D Virtual Insects
3. University of Florida's Book of Insect Records
4. Bugbios.com - This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures.
5. The Bug Page
6. Bug Ranch - Entomology Art - features a collection of entomological art, early engravings, and natural history illustration
7. BugScope - participating classrooms will have the opportunity to control an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to image insects at high magnification.
8. The Creepy Crawly Zoo
9. Class: Insecta - photographs and information culled from the Spencer Entomology Museum.
10. Cultural Entomology - explores how insects affect all facets of the humanities.
11. Entomology for Beginners - basic information on insect anatomy (body parts) and metamorphosis. Links to entomological sites.
12. Fon's Bug World - a site for insect enthusiasts containing many original images and accompanying music.
13. How Grasshoppers Jump!
14. Insect Zoo - this site has a live camera within the Insect Zoo! You can actually look around and zoom in and out. If you cannot physically visit the Zoo, this is the next best thing!
15. Iowa State University Entomology Image Gallery - high-quality photographs of insects and the damage that they cause.
16. Iowa State Entomology Index: K-12 Educators' Recommended Sites
17. MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery - The images on this site were taken with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) in the Biological Electron Microscope Facility at the University of Hawaii. Cool art from science.
18. Most Wanted Bugs - Dennis Kunkel's electron microscopic image gallery of bad bugs - insects that make trouble for humans. This site has mug shots and descriptive rap sheets.
19. Nature: Alien Empire - PBS miniseries exploring the world of insects.
20. O. Orkin Insect Zoo - curriculum modules, articles, and multimedia resources from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
21. Stein's Virtual Insectary - provides images of some common insects, plus information on the foods they eat and the habitats where they can be found.
22. Ugly Bug Contest - Oklahoma elementary schools submit bugs to be imaged by scanning electron microscopy. An education outreach program of the Oklahoma Microscopy Society.
23. Wetland Insect Populations as Biological Indicators - an evaluation of a wetland mitigation monitoring tool.
24. Wonderful World of Insects - introduction to entomology for interested, but uninformed, amateurs of all ages.
25. Yuckiest Site on the Internet - explore the living sciences of entomology, earth science, and human biology through roaches, earthworms, and the mysterious human body.

Web Directories on Insects.... Entomology - WWW Virtual Library Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources Forest Entomology Textbook Challenge for the 21st Century - Fetch21 provides linkages to forest insect web sites around the world that would be of interest to the undergraduate and graduate students in entomology. Insects on WWW - Over 2000 insects and entomology related URLs covering almost every aspects of entomology.

Links to Artists

Artist	Sites Featuring:      Sculptors, Geometric Abstraction, Precisionist Movement, Futurist Cubism, and Mobiles
Piet Mondrian	Piet Mondrian - You can even create your own Mondrian on this site and others!
M.C. Escher	M.C. Escher- "The appeal of MC Escher's fantasy and paradoxial inventiveness is universal, yet mathematicians admire the strict principles underlying his manipulation of space, time and perspective. His drawings are enjoyed for their whimsical humour, admired as works of art for their strength and intricacy, and studied for the insights and the challenges they offer to our notions of reality and representation." - JL Locher - General Editor - Escher: The Complete Graphic Work M.C. Escher Resources!
Louise Nevelson	Louise Nevelson - Sculptor Louise Nevelson - Links
David Smith	David Smith - Smith . . . filled the grounds of his Bolton Landing farm, purchased in the 1930s, with large, monolithic works of sculpture, such as the Tank Totems, Sentinels and Cubis David Smith's Sculptures
Josef Albers	Josef Albers - Albers's earliest works were figurative drawings and paintings. His style became increasingly abstract at the Bauhaus where he began to explore abstraction and color, his primary lifelong preoccupations
Kenneth Noland	Kenneth Noland - Colorist - American painter. Noland first experimented with bands of pure color in bull's-eye and chevron motifs and horizontal parallel stripes Kenneth Noland - Links
Frank Stella	Frank Stella - The pivoting cones, triangular forms, and spatial theatricality suggested by his works are given concrete form in Stella's works Frank Stella - at Tyler Graphics
Charles Sheeler	Charles Sheeler - American Precisionist Painter and Photographer, 1883-1965
Charles Demuth	Charlers Demuth - was influenced by Cubism and Futurism, his choice of urban and industrial subjects, his sense of scale and his directness of expression were American Charles Demuth - Links
Lyonel Feininger	Lyonel Feininger - his unique cubist vision Lyonel Feininger- Links
Jean Arp	Jean Arp - Originally a Dadaist and later aligned with the Surrealists, Arp was interested in dreams and the irrational as a source of spontaneous artistic expression and experimented with automatism and the "laws of chance" as a means of stimulating creativity. Jean Arp - Links
Alexander Calder	Alexander Calder - Father of the mobile Alexander Calder - Links
Abstract Art	Abstract Art in Philadelphia

Math Sites

1. Naming Polygons and Polyhedra
2. Polygons and Their Relations
3. Symmetry - make sure that you understand all three kinds of symmetry and address them in your research questions/story!
4. Fr. Magnus Wenninger, OSB, mathematician, builder of polyhedra - Visit here to see some AWESOME polyhedra. Any bug would be proud to be made from one of these!
5. Unfolding Polyhedra
6. Hidden Polygons
7. Models of Regular Polyhedra
8. Polyhedra and Polygons - from the files of the Geometry Junkyard for help with symmetry, polyhedral models,
9. Circles and Loci
10. Sketchpad Polygons - You could use sketchpad to design your bug!!!
11. Geometry Junkyard! - Great Geometry Resources!
12. Angles in Polygons and Tessellations
13. Buckyballs - What do soccer balls, Carbon 60, and truncated icosahedron have in common? Check here!
14. Picture rendered by Rob Wieringa
15. Daniel Green's geometry page - Symmetry, Platonic Solids, Infinite and Flexible Polyhedra
16. Links 2 Go - Geometry
17. Polygons: formality and intuition
18. Polygons with compass and straightedge or Constructing a regular decagon
19. Figures and Polygons - info on polygons, regular polygons, convex vs. concave polygons, closed figures, and lots more on polygons.
20. Polygons - definitions with illustrations
21. Regions formed by Diagonals of Regular Polygons
22. Geometry - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts - links to many topics in geometry, polygons, and their properties
23. Regular Polygons
24. Angle Measures of Polygons
25. Geometry Course with Questions
26. Drawing Polygons with Claris Works

This page was created by Nancy Powell to accompany the geometry project entitled "I've got that Geometry Bug!".

This project was created by Nancy Powell and Cathy Denbesten for their Geometry Classes. We welcome your comments and questions.