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Dragonfly Sculptures

For Teachers K - 3rd
Art projects are great when they apply to other subjects. First study insects, their parts, and their habitats. Then have little ones create a dragonfly. They use clothes pins, raffia, pipe-cleaners, and paint to construct their...
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Stories of Hope: Dragonfly and Mosquito

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify and interpret the value of the dragonfly as a predator of the mosquito. They create their own folktales using the dragonfly or a creature of their choice to solve the malaria problem or another issue. Students also...
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Dragonfly

For Teachers 7th Standards
The speed of a dragonfly brings math into the real world as your learners collaboratively see the value in calculating unit rates in direct proportion problems. This six-phase lesson plan encourages you, as the teacher, to only ask...
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The Dragonflies of Summer

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The best thing about dragonflies is that they make great topics for informational texts. Get those readers excited with a fun and interesting insect-related text passage that can help them increase their comprehension skills. As children...
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Dragonfly Anatomy: Dragonfly Magnet or Pin

For Teachers K - 6th
Students build anatomically correct dragonflies of polymer clay, use vocabulary for body parts, and define the function of the body parts as adaptations for survival.
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Paper and Clothespin Dragonflies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use construction paper and clothespins to make a paper dragonfly. They place eyes on the dragonfly and use magic markers to add any detail they choose.
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Dragonflies and Damselflies

For Students 7th - 9th
In this dragonfly and damselfly worksheet, learners describe the differences between the two then label the head, thorax, and abdomen of each.
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Damsels and Dragons

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students experiment with the perching behaviors of damsel and dragonflies. In this damsel and dragonfly instructional activity, students construct perches for the insects. They observe their perching behavior and their reaction to decoys...
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Illinois County Dragonfly Poster

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students identify the dragonflies found in their Illinois County by using the Odonata database list to find the scientific names, searching field guides and the Internet for (1) the common name (2) description (3) life habits and (4) a...
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Dragonfly Dot To Dot

For Teachers 2nd
In this science worksheet, 2nd graders will connect the dots from one to forty-two to create a dragonfly. Students will respond to the question and write what the picture comes to be once it has been completed.
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Going Buggy

For Teachers K
Students identify the parts of a dragonfly that they drew. They write a very short non-fiction story (mainly with pictures) about the adventure of a dragonfly. They interview a person dressed as a dragonfly to find out some things about...
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Counting Dragonflies

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting skills worksheet, students examine 6 pictured dragonflies and color them according to the provided directions.
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Territorial Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore dragonfiles/damselfiles and their behaviors. They examine their differences and their life cycles. Students observe the dragonflies in a field and determine the number of different species.
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Life Cycles of Frogs, Dragonflies, And Butterflies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explain the similarities and differences in the life cycles of organisms. The lesson begins with a reading of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Dragonfly Counting

For Students K
In this counting worksheet, students draw and count the number of dragonflies in each picture. Students complete and color a total of 12 pictures.
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Butterfly/Moth Poster

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students learn how to identify which species of dragonflies or butterflies are found in their County by learning to read the Odonata or Lepidoptera checklist to find the scientific names; they also search field guides and the Internet...
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Be an Artist: Dragonfly

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
For this visual arts worksheet, students will use a grid to recreate a given image. Using similar line segments in each box of the grid, students will recreate the image of a dragonfly in the boxes provided.
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Color Bugs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Bugs are creepy, crawly, and beautiful! Explore the world of colorful bugs with a presentation about bugs that are different colors. With red ladybugs, yellow caterpillars, and purple dragonflies, the presentation is sure to delight and...
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Fish and Flowers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read and discuss a research article that explains the unlikely link between increased fish populations and increased plant pollination. They answer reading guide questions to discover this ecological relationship.
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Insect Body Parts and their Functions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore all the parts of an insects body and assess their specific functions. They review an extensive vocabulary list of terms and then relate the parts of an insect to those of a human being. Dragonfly Poetry is also taught...
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Word Search Dr

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word search worksheet, learners find 15 words beginning with "dr." Words include dresser, dream, drip, dragonfly, droop, drugstore, and drive.
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Words that Begin with D

For Students K - 1st
In this this tracing words activity, students trace the words that begin with the letter D. Students trace the words dragonfly, danger, dad, and doll.
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D Is For Duck

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this printing practice worksheet, students trace four examples of Zaner-Bloser upper and lower case letter d. Students practice these letters and also write the words "duck" and "dragonfly."
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Invertebrates

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars identify insect body parts and look for local insect life. They create an insect using recycled material and design a classroom mural with bug facts. They study Monarch butterflies and dragonflies.

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