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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students research a variety of insects, completing many different activities across the curricula. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels are provided for all activities. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students listen to the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and create their own "Very Hungry Caterpillar" book to learn the life cycle of a butterfly. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students create a Venn diagram showing the difference between spiders and insects. They explain the characteristics of insect such as size, body parts, movement and habitats. They design a three-dimensional insect and investigate butterflies. 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 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 - 5th
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Students complete a unit on insects and spiders. They explore various websites, identify and label spider and insect body parts, compare/contrast spiders and insects, identify five butterfly or moth species found in their state, and describe an ant colony. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students view a short film about butterflies, prepare a recipe that attracts butterflies for observation and answer various questions to determine their prior knowledge about butterflies. They observe caterpillars, use art supplies to make butterfly models and examine the current trend of releasing butterflies at weddings and gatherings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore the insects in their region. They compare the different insects and explore their body parts. They raise a butterfly from caterpillar on to watch its life cycle and journal this cycle. They invent their own insect with the different parts of an insect. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore what an insect is and how to identify different parts of an insect and its growth. They discover the difference between an insect and an arachnid. They observe caterpillars as they go through their life cycle and write and illustrate their observations. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Using computers, Students work in small groups and progress through the roles of Explorer, Researcher, Designer, and Evaluator as they study the life cycle of plants, insects, butterflies and frogs. Full Review »
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