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- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students discover stages in metamorphosis through up close and real encounters with video, hands-on investigative and interactive activities using mealworms. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students sort insects into groups by determining similar characteristics. They role play as Entomologists to sort insects. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students discover the life cycle stages of different insects. They discover the life cycle of a butterfly by listening to an entomologist speak to their class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore the life cycle of the painted lady butterfly from larva stage to a fully developed butterfly. They are given larva butterflies to care for and monitor until it metamorphoses into a butterfly. Several other age-appropriate insect-related activities are also included in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are told stories, myths and legend to explain their world. After telling the tales and discussion them, students are assigned to write a myth that describes a familiar situation, such as why the school garbage cans are always empty in the morning. Then, they are to explain something in their own words lives, perhaps a family myth, tradition, or ordinary happening. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students identify the gypsy moth life cycle. They study the different options to integrated pest management in gypsy moth control. They Create a poster reflecting the gypsy moth life cycle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students describe an insect and its parts. They observe behavior and the function in survival and identify insect survival adaptations. Students compose a complete a creative story about a day in the life of an insect. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students use math number sense to count the number of objects in a set. They count and read whole numbers. Students use appropricate technology to enhance development of number sense. They are asked if they know what an entolmologist is? Students are told that they are going to make their own bug. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students discover how coroners use insect life cycles to estimate the time of death in cases. they describe how forensic entomologists combine environmental factors with insect life cycles to note the changes. Students examine an actual murder case and how the evidence was gathered to estimate the time of death. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students ask testable questions. They explain the relationship between insect behavior and insect trapping techniques. Students design their own insect traps to collect a new unknown insect, in the same way that entomologists collect the insects they research. Full Review »
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