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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students search stream beds to study the life cycle and adaptations of stream insects. They explore creeks and streams to see the diversity index of creeks or streams and to find the water qualit index. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study the lives, and features of insects in the series of lessons that make up this unit. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students match insects to the proper order based on the characteristics. They culminate their study of the orders that insects belong in by looking at insects with magnifying glasses. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students use their listening skills to make observations of their environment. They study various insects within a natural setting. They, along with their identification of the insect, create a sketch of the insect. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students complete a unit on the differences between a spider and an insect. They conduct Internet research, create a spider and write a story about it, draw a spider web, make honeybee fingerprints, describe an ant colony, and create a drawing of a picture of an ant farm. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students discuss how some insects are considered to be pests, and how knowing more about their characteristics and lifestyles can help control them. They take notes on the included worksheet before observing live insects in the classroom. They may visit the extension website for more information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore insects and have many opportunities to discuss, reflect, and record their explorations inidividually and in groups. They then make models of the insects as outlined in the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students participate in a nature walk to observe various types of insects. As a class, they discuss the proper ways to collect insects without harming them and review a poster of insect characteristics. They sing a song about the parts of an insect and share the insects they collected. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students inspect several different specimens of insects and spiders to determine characteristics that are similar and different between the two groups. They identify the basic body structure of spiders and insects and then predict where they might live and what they would eat according to the body parts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students explore the world of insects and discover what it might be like to live like one. They create an insect with physical characteristics and demonstrate how it moves. Students also compare and contrast insects to spiders and how different insects move, jump, fly, crawl, or swim. Finally, they search for insects in their home or outside with their family. Full Review »
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