Methods intro 1

The goals of the Methods project are to practice observation versus inference, practicing how to write and describe an experiment done so it can be exactly replicated, and identifying and addressing factors that need to be controlled during an experiment. In order to complete all these goals, the student has to create a multi-panel scientific figure demonstrating an example of phytophagy, the eating of plants. This figure includes one close up image of an example of phytophagy, a zoomed out image of the same example, and a map that illustrates where the example was found around Amherst. The student then must document their exact methods and have another person follow and replicate those methods