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I am looking for other teachers who keep or breed corns in their classroom to share information and ideas with other teachers. I have 15 corns that I keep in school and are cared for by my students. I would like to find other classrooms that have similar situations so we can share ideas, breeding results, have student correspondence and teaching materials.

I teach 7th grade but would be interested in hearing how corns are incorporated in other grade levels. If interested teachers contact me I will put together a list of email address and we can communicate through the net.

I have a website, although there has been some computer in my district lately that have caused the site to not work properly all the time.

Duane Petrosky
Kraft Meadows Middle School
Caledonia, Michigan
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I'm not a teacher but my 7th grade seventh grade science teacher keeps reptiles in his room. He has a green anole, ball python, ribbon snake, king snake, and a veilid chamelion. One time the the ball python got out and everyone was freaking out because they thought that it was going to bite them and kill them. I just sat there and laughed. Also the ball python currently has a respitory infection. I saw that coming due to his cages extreme humidity. I guess I should have warned him.

Duane, I'd like to get in on what you're trying to put together here. I'm not a teacher yet, but by this time next year I will be and I plan on doing something similar to what you are.

I currently am trying to breed a male butter corn to a large female albino in my 10th grade h.s. biology classroom. However, the female is not receptive (probably b/c she was not cycled). Anyway, I have a large collection of corns but I am selective about which I bring into school. I also have 5 female baby ball pythons in my classroom that will be future mates with a 100% het pied male at home. My best email to reach me is cjasno@aol.com...however i can also provide you with my school email if you'd like.

This sounds like it is worthy of maybe starting a webgroup devoted to teachers and their classroom snakes. Maybe on Yahoo? A friend of mine started a group for the genus Candoia, boas from the pacific islands, on Yahoo to try and unify the efforts of sharing information and success of that species. If you are interested, maybe we could start something similar..its free so it wouldn't cost anything. UNLESS there is already something like this. Let me know as I am a new teacher and would love to hear ideas from more experienced teachers about ways to incorporate herpetology into the science classroom.
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Sincerely, Jason
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My Website: www.members.aol.com/northeastsnakes
My collection...
BOAS: 0.1 Solomon Island Ground Boa, 1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas, 1.1 Argentine Boas, 2.2 Nicaraguans, 1.1 Sonoran Desert Boas, 1.1 Cay Caulkers, 1.0 Columbian Boa 100% het Kahl Albino, 0.1 Anery boa, 0.1 Salmon OTW, 1.1 Hog Island Boas, 0.1 Hog Island Boa poss het patternless.
PYTHONS: 1.2 Green Tree Pythons, 2.2 Bismarck Ringed Pythons, 2.8 Normal Ball Pythons, 1.0 Ball Python 100% het Piebald, 1.1 Spotted Pythons.
COLUBRIDS: 1.1 Black Pines, 1.1 Northern Pines, 2.2 Bairds Ratsnakes, 1.2 White-sided Black Ratsnakes.
CORNS: 1.0 Blizzard, 1.2 Bloodreds, 1.2 Butters, 1.0 Ghost, 0.1 Sunglow, 1.0 Hypo het Amber, 1.1 Lavenders, 1.1 Miami Phases, 1.2 Reverse Okeetee, 0.1 Snow, 0.1 Striped Amel, 3.2 Okeetees.
OTHER: 0.0.3 N. Diamondback Terrapins.

I was wondering if you could pass on some more information about how the snakes work in your classroom. I am a seventh grade math teacher. I bought my corn, Quadratic, to add to my class pets. I already have the d-line (4 fire belly toads), Shiva (a hissing cockroach), Harvey (a giant millipede) and Mr Krabbs (a hermit crab) in my room. I have been reluctant to bring Q in because I thought I may have trouble regulating his habitat. Any ideas or hints that work for you? My students are dying to meet him. I am being over protective of my new baby.

Any Advice?

Goodman
EEJMS

I use them to teach genetics and to aid in the teaching of probability since the two subjects are so closely related. My collection provides the examples that we use in class, snakes are much more interesting than pea plants. I wonder what Mendel would have discovered had he had snakes rather than peas.

The rest of the year the kids get a chance to show their responsibilty and work on measurement skills. They weight their snake and its food item weekly. They also meaasure sheds and last year, before our big technology upgrade, I had the kids use digital pictures to calculate the length of each snake. The program I used doesn't work with macs.

I have a website that shows what we do. I even have a quicktime movie on it if your connection is fast enough. I am still working the bugs out of a couple of the pages but you can get the idea from what is up on the net.
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For some reason the link is not working.

The website's address is

www.caledonia.k12.mi.us/middleschool/gradelevels/7th/petrosky/snakewebsite/kmmscornsnakegeneticsproje.htm

You might have to copy and paste it in order to get it to work.