Myths and Science of Cricket Chirps Audiotape

Cassette provides an engaging method to teach reasoning processes to students from elementary through high school levels. It uses the pleasant sound of the tree cricket, Oecanthus fultoni, as males attempt to attract females under varying temperature, seasonal, and altitude conditions. It presents principles and pitfalls of inductive logic, and demonstrates the formation, predictive power, and testing of a formed idea. This 14-minute journey of discovery was developed by a science educator to teach critical thinking and scientific processes. 24-page Teachers’ Guide is included.