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- 1st
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Students differentiate between (adult) male and female crickets through observations, counts, and drawings of crickets. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore cricket body parts, food habits, sounds, habitats, and ecological impacts through a dramatic experience, live crickets, pictures of crickets and cricket habitats, and creating a cricket. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students build a habitat for crickets after studying animal survival needs. They care for and observe the crickets in the classroom habitat. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students conduct an experiment to test the effects of various chemicals on breathing and to practice animal dissection. They carefully dissect house crickets to identify the breathing structures and determine their rate of respiration. They then evaluate the changes that occur in respiration when the crickets are exposed to various neutransmitters. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the behavior of crickets during courtship. They measure the number and types of interactions between household crickets. Students discriminate between quantitative and qualitative observations. They collect data to develop hypotheses and guide their own experimental design. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students dissect a cricket and note the three body regions, wings, and legs. They observe the yellow malphigian tubes and remove them. They dissect the esophagus and analyze the heart for respiratory rates and heart beat rates. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students discuss insects they have seen and what they look like. They read and comprehend "The Very Quiet Cricket." They summarize their favorite part of the story by writing two sentences. Students create a mural of a cricket. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students design a class newspaper all about their study of crickets, including illustrations and various sections of the newspaper, like sports, jokes, articles, food, and reviews. Students create a plan to design a cricket from food items and write a recipe to go with it. Students share their stories, riddles, jokes, and reviews throughout the process. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students measure how far different crickets can jump. They record the lengths and compare the results in a graph. They answer their predictions about how far a cricket can jump. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the effect of temperature on how often crickets chirp. In groups, they complete the experiment and answer lab discussion questions. They create a graph of temperatures and the amount of chirps and discuss the results. Full Review »
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